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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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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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Consecration First Holiness Revelation Second Step The To
Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Enable Enemy First Him Ideal Inwardly Outward Overcome Prayer
The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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Christian Experience Faith Finish Journey Start
Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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Always Come Glory God Man Punishment Purpose Sin Thought
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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Already Far Have Just Less More One Praise Prayer Revelation
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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Able Christ More Outside Strong Weak
May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Always Consciousness May Not Our Own Possess We
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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Arrangement Circumstance Discipline God Holy Important Recieve Spirit
I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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Already Been Christ Defeat Meaningful Victorious Word
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
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Actually Can Christian God Heart Man Not Only Satigy
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Depth God Guidance Inner Must Prayer Rely Trembling Upon With
We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Christ Conduct Consider Emotion Life Live Lord Out Outward Reality Realize Strong Us
It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Deficiency Different Hundred Mater One Personal Thing
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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Can Come Down God Irresistible Like Locomotive Our Power Prayer Rail Track
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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Acid An Inner Lost Prayer Strength
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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Act Approach Bets Book Our Work
Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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Lie Look Lord Our Ourselves Rest To
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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Drunker Gain Life Lost Measure Not Purple Score
The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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Bad Cleaned Crucified Files Too
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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Absolute Adopt Christianity Eliminate Folly God Natural Ought Please View Walk
May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.
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All Amen Found God Know Lord May Meet See Son Thing Truth
At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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At Grace Life Lose Require Seem Time Wealth
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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Child God Holy Spirit Know Ought Confess Petition Pray Teach Weakness
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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Consecrate God Kitchen Misisoinary Myself Office Preacher School
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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Drawn Evil God Occupy One Presence Room Satan Virtue
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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Any Come Faith Food Heart Him Say Sight Strike Terror Trouble Trust

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