Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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 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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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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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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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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