Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
WATCHMAN NEEIf we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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Life 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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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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