We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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 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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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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 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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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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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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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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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach 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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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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