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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.

to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required.

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

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.

The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him ...

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined; it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears
THAT is Christianity!

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.

It is not a matter of how many loaves we have in our hands, but whether or not God has blessed them.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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

So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

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

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity.

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

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

The reason for so many defeats in the spiritual realm is because this sector of the soul has not been dealt with drastically.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

God not only wants to break the outer man ... He wants our spirit and our soul ... our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.

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

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

Baptism is faith in action.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also ... the difficulties that are in our way.

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

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

It is because we know God's will that we may say to Him: God, we want You to do this thing, we are determined that You do it, You cannot but do it.

Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!

Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.

The fruit of the Spirit is ... self-control

We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.

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

Many confuse understanding with believing.

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

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

A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.

It is so easy to become more attached to the gifts of God than to the Giver - and even, I should add, to the work of God than to God Himself.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.

The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.

Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.