We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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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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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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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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.
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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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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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