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God's way of salvation is in Christ, not in your own self. Patience is in Christ, humility is in Christ, holiness is in Christ. All is in Christ. In you, yourself, there is always uncleanness and unholiness. If you live in Christ, you have everything. But if you live in your self, you remain unchanged. UNITED
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How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?
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The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]
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Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.
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We do not see that prayer is the asking of God to fulfill His needs.
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Whatever prayer is not according to God's will is utterly
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Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.
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How many of Gods servants are used by Him, as we say in China, to build a 12 feet of wall, only when they have done so to undo it all by themselves pulling down 15 feet!
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How many of Gods servants are used by Him, as we say in China, to build 12 feet of wall, only when they have done so to undo it all by themselves pulling down 15 feet!
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However zealous He is towards His own will, He will temporarily permit Satan to be on the offensive should His people forget His will and fail to show sympathy by cooperating with Him.
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Learn to recognize God's sovereignty. Learn to rejoice in God's pleasure. This was Abraham's first lesson, namely that God, not himself, was the Source.
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since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.
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Several days after Mary broke the alabaster box and poured the ointment on Jesus' head, there were some women who went early in the morning to anoint the body of the Lord. Did they do it? Did they succeed in their purpose on that first day of the week? No, there was only one soul who succeeded in anointing the Lord, and it was Mary, who anointed Him beforehand. The others never did it, for He had risen. Now I suggest that in just such a way..
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Bible-reading and prayer are not wrong, and God forbid that we should suggest that they are. But it is wrong to trust even in them for victory. Our help is in Him who is the object of that reading and prayer. Our trust must be in Christ alone.
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This was God's principle from the beginning. In the creation God worked from the first to the sixth day and rested on the seventh. We may truthfully say that for those first six days, He was very busy. Then, the task He had set Himself completed, He ceased to work. The seventh day became the sabbath of God; it was God's rest. But what of Adam? Where did he stand in relation to that rest of God? Adam, we are told, was created on the sixth da..
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Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
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Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies. Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth.
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The operation of His life in us is in a true sense spontaneous, that is to say, it is without effort of ours. The all-important rule is not to "try," but to "trust," not to depend upon our own strength, but upon His. For it is the flow of life which reveals what we truly are "in Christ." It is from the Fountain of Life that the sweet water issues."
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is most vital that the Lord breaks us.
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For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.
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The temptation to so many of us when we try to approach God is to think that because God has been dealing with us--because He has been taking steps to bring us into something more of Himself and has been teaching us deeper lessons of the Cross--He has thereby set before us new standards, and that only by attaining to these can we have a clear conscience before Him. No! A clear conscience is never based upon our attainment; it can only be ba..
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To be useful in God's hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God's requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express "the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (1:6)."
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Since the Lord suffered humiliation on the earth, we should not seek glory here.
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