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.
WATCHMAN NEEOur old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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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.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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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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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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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
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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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