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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.
God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.
Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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.
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.
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.
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.
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive.
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
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 crucified with him."
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.