Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
WATCHMAN NEEAn unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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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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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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