It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
WATCHMAN NEETo 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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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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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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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.
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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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