The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEEThere 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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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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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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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