Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
WATCHMAN NEETo remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one’s personal happiness.
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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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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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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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