God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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 faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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