Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict.
WATCHMAN NEEBaptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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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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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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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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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.
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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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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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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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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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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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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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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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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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