At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
WATCHMAN NEETeach 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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It 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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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
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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 Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.
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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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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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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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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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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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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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