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- Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been…
- Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the…
- 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…
- Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that…
- Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact…
- God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him. ...
- Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
- An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in…
- Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and…
- Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss…
- Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.
- We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
- Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have…
- The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all…
- The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it…
- The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone…
- When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy…
- A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
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