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.
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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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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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Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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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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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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