The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
WATCHMAN NEETo remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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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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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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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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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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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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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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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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