Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.
One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.
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.
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Baptism is faith in action.
It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him – freedom from sin.
The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it.
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.
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer’s life with truth.
Overcoming 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.
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
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.”
Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.