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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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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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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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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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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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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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