Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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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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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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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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Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
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The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
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Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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Christ 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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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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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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Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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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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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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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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I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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