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• To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Suffering

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.421, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

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  Perseverance, Strong, Prayer

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• 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.

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  Rely Upon, Depth, Way

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.84, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• You should accordingly exercise your mind to remember your friends, relatives, and fellow-workers to determine if they are in need. As you remember each one so shall you in turn intercede for them. If in interceding on their behalf your spirit remains cold and dry, then you know you are not to pray for them.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Mind

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.584, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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

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  Inward, Satanic, Divine

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.37, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something of me for their fulfillment, then deliverance from law means he no longer requires that from me, but himself provides it.

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  Mean, Law, Grace

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.121, CLC Publications

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• Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

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  Believe, Tests, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.102, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will is. If we honestly seek and wholeheartedly obey His desires, our fellowship remains unbroken, even though there should be many unknown sins in us. Should fellowship be determined by the holiness of God, who among all the most holy saints in the past and the present would be qualified to hold a moment's perfect communion with Him?

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  Attitude, Past, Perfect

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.114, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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

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  People, Secret, Lazy

  Watchman Nee (1982). “The Better Covenant”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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  Expression, Baptism, Inward

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.103, CLC Publications

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• The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.

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  Negative, Resurrection, Crosses

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.215, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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

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  Christian, Thinking, Average

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

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  Grace, Wealth, Our Lives

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.294, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates. There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan's writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?

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  Letting Go, Running, Men

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Love Not the World: A Prophetic Call to Holy Living”, p.82, CLC Publications

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• Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

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  Children, Garden, Feelings

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Christians 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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  Christian, Believe, Exercise

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• Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

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  Prayer, Children, Fighting

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• The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

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  Spiritual, Church, Majority

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• God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

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  Jesus, Humility, Son

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• Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a particular matter he can hardly succeed in prayer. In a prayer meeting some brothers and sisters may mention a great many subjects for prayer. But if you are not touched inwardly, you cannot pray.

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  Brother, Prayer, Secret

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Let Us Pray”, p.49, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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

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  Christian, Facts, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.112, CLC Publications

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• Many confuse understanding with believing.

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  Believe, Understanding

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.386, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

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  Information, Obedience

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• Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.

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  Attitude, Heart, Desire

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.79, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

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  Wish, Delight, World

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