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.
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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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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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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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