Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
WATCHMAN NEEOur old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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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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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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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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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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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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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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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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