People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God’s will.
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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.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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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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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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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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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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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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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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