Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
WATCHMAN NEEOur old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
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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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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
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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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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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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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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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