The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEEThe 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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God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
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Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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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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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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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.
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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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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
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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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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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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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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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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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