God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.
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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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