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God 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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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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Advance Child Discover God Important Lord Shall Spiritually Time Will
Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Lord Not Place Servant Take Until
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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By Christian Drunker How Life Lost Measure Much Outpour Score Tis What
We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Christ Conduct Consider Emotion Life Live Lord Out Outward Reality Realize Strong Us
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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Before First God Have I Must Possession Presence Sense
The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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Act Approach Bets Book Our Work
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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Christ Christian exchange God Like Offer Substitute Think
Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Come Complete Consecration Peace Perfect With
The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Begun Big Christian Do Done Faith
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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Absolute Adopt Christianity Eliminate Folly God Natural Ought Please View Walk
Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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Attractive Change Different Formerly Mean Pleasant Repentance Thing Thought
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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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Deficiency Different Hundred Mater One Personal Thing
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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Always Anything Character Enquire God Good Lead Test Thing Would

God 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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God 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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