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• The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all the same in nature. They are all Nicolaitans. In the Bible there are only brothers. There is the gift of a pastor, but no system of pastors. The pastoral system is man's tradition. If the children of God are not willing to return to the position of that in the beginning, no matter what they do, it will not be right.

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  Brother, Children, Father

  Watchman Nee (1996). “The Orthodoxy of the Church”, p.38, Living Stream Ministry

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• Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

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  Life, Wine, Sacrifice

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• Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

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  Encouraging, Christian, Encouragement

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• The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

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  Christian, Done, Bigs

  Watchman Nee (2005). “A Table in the Wilderness”, p.23, CLC Publications

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• We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

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  Christian, Thinking, Substitutes

  Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.119, Hendrickson Publishers

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• To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!

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  Hands, Tears, Christianity

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• The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

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  Opposites, Feelings, Different

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.82, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

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  Strong, Weakness, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.19, CLC Publications

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• He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

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  Self, Darkness, Able

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• I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin... I appreciate the blessed fact of God's forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.

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  Blessed, Want Something, Appreciate

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

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  Men, Mind, Christianity

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.104, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• 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

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• Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.

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  Jesus, Father, Hands

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.97, CLC Publications

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.

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  Reading, Heart, Shine On

  Watchman Nee (1999). “How to Study the Bible”, p.18, Living Stream Ministry

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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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• The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The Lord Jesus requires just as much, yea even more (Matt. 5:21-48), but what he requires from us he himself carries out in us. The law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Christ makes demands, but he himself fulfills in us the very demands he makes.

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  Jesus, Law, Demand

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

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  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

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  Christian, Meat, Way

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.

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  Christian, Heart, Men

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.145, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

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  Attitude, Good Christian, Gods Will

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• May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

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  May, Consciousness, Possessed

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications

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