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.
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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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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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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