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The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.

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“There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments…

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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…

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The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

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We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No…

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Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the…

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We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.

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All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.

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Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

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Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous…

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Human feelings change as the world changes. Their easy excitement can occasion a saint to lose his spiritual balance. Their constant disturbance…

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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

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Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

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“They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage.…

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If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love…

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You should accordingly exercise your mind to remember your friends, relatives, and fellow-workers to determine if they are in need. As you…

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The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we…

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Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy…

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And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.

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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere…

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“Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is…

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“Do you know, my friends, that the Spirit within you is very God? Oh that our eyes were opened to see the…

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Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate…

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Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is…

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