The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
WATCHMAN NEELife in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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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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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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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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