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 NEEChrist is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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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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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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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 right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
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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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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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