The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Death of the spirit is the cessation of its communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior! — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
God aims first to renew man's darkened spirit by imparting life to it, because it is this spirit which God originally designed… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Human feelings change as the world changes. Their easy excitement can occasion a saint to lose his spiritual balance. Their constant disturbance… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“That which they have need of . . . let it be given them day by day without fail. Ezra 6:9 If we really… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing! — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
