To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
Watchman NeeEternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
Watchman NeeTeach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
Watchman NeeOvercoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.
Watchman NeeThe Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
Watchman NeeWe think of the Christian life as a โchanged lifeโ but it is not that. What God offers us is an โexchanged life,โ a โsubstituted life,โ and Christ is our Substitute within.
Watchman NeeChristians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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