Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
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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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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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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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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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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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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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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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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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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