Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
WATCHMAN NEEFrequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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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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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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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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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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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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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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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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