The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
WATCHMAN NEERevelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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