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.
WATCHMAN NEEHow 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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I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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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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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.
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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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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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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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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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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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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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