Watchman Nee Quotes About Holy Spirit

Quotes about: Holy Spirit

• It is important to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.

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  Opportunity, Discipline, Suffering

• 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.

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  Prayer, Children, Weakness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.148, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.

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  Book, Men, Religion

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.89, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

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  Issues, Spirit, Guidance

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.82, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth.

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  Jesus, Earth, Bears

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.284, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• 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.

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  Prayer, Demand, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.314, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• Take this as the secret of Christ's life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.

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  Believe, Secret, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.202, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Doe

• In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

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  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.50, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• 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

• Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.

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  Spirit, Sin, Hours

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.142, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

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  Wise, Spiritual, Book

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.71, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• 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

• Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.

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  Attitude, Rely Upon, Victory

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.204, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.

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  Views, Expectations, May

• Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.343, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.

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  Christian, Children, Opportunity

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.496, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man's wisdom and not in God's power, they are merely excited in their soul.

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  Men, Soul, Brain

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.79, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

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  Giving, Spirit, Holy

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.78, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.

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  Spiritual, Christ, Holy

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.81, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, preaching); but if they are not undertaken in a spirit of complete reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then the flesh is the source of all. The old creation is willing to do anything-even to submit to God - if only it is permitted to live and to be active.

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  Reading, Godly, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.40, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.

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  Perfect, Flesh, Causes

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.197, Christian Fellowship Publishers

• Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service while the former solves the problem of life (naturally it will affect service too).

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  Men, Baptism, Dying

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.359, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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