I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
WATCHMAN NEEOur old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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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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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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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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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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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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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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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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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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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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