To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
WATCHMAN NEEGod will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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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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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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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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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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