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.
WATCHMAN NEEIt is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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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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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
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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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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
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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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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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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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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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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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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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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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