201. Whatever you do, just keep on going for God. You're bound to make it sometime if you try often enough.                 202. The only way we can ever be conquered is if we stop attacking & give up & stop having the faith to take the initiative.                 203. Keep on holding to His promises, don't let go! Keep on standing on the Word, don't get off! Keep on going for Jesus, don't stop! Keep on keeping on!                 204. The people that complain about the battle & then quit just before the victory's won never get to enjoy it.                 205. Keep fighting & you won't lose! Keep wielding the weapon of the Word & you'll win!                 206. Every day is a battle!                 207. We all have besetting sins, we just have to learn to resist them.                 208. It's a battle, it's a war, but we're bound to win.                 209. If you're a fighter like I am you enjoy the battle.                 210. A victorious knight returned from the battle has more of a shine than one who hasn't been in the battle.                 211. The Devil can't lick you as long as you keep trying. The only way he can possibly lick you is if you surrender.                 212. You only win a war in which you lead the attack.                 213. You don't have time to sharpen your sword in the middle of a battle, but if your sword is so dull it turns out to be nothing but a club, it's better than nothing.                 214. If you run off & hide before the battle's won, God will hold you to blame for the defeat.                 215. You have to fight the Devil & your old self every day. You can never stop battling, you can never stop winning victories, you can never stop progressing or you'll backslide.                 216. Each battle God gives you in which you win a victory is followed with a bigger battle, because He knows He can now trust you with more.                 217. The greater the battle, the greater the victory. The greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward.                 218. To get greater victories you have to keep fighting greater battles, & for greater rewards you have to keep making greater sacrifices, & for greater joys, you have to keep suffering greater pains.                 219. Don't rescue me prematurely.                 220. If you win this battle, He'll give you a bigger battle tomorrow.                 221. You've either got to surrender & make peace with your enemy or you've got to fight.                 222. Try a little "umph" if you want to triumph!                 223. If you didn't have the fight you wouldn't appreciate the victory.                 224. If you think the time's coming in this life when you'll no longer have to fight self & sin & the old man, you're mistaken.                 225. Some things do get easier. You don't usually have to fight the same battles over again if you get the victory.                 226. Anything wonderful can happen in that little margin of time when you do not give up but keep on believing & keep on praying.                 227. It's a struggle to live! It takes faith & courage & fight & lot of real hard work to live the faith life.                 228. People who faint, faint first in their minds. They sort of give up mentally or spiritually first.                 229. That's what you joined the army for, to fight.                 230. A good soldier knows how to fight, how to wield the weapon of the Word!                 231. Hope never quits, faith never stops trusting & love never fails--if you keep fighting!                 232. God didn't call you to a playground, but a battleground!                 233. The best way to stop an attack is to counterattack. The best defense is an offence.                 234. We are in a fight to the finish & the victory is ours praise be to God.                 235. Don't depend on yesterday, get inspired today!                 236. An attacking initiative is what wins a war!                 237. When things get tough you've got to fight all the harder! When the going gets tough, the tough get going!                 238. We need to get more militant, more aggressive, more specific & go on the attack, take the offensive & hit the thing head-on immediately!                 239. How do you get the victory? You just keep fighting!                 240. The more difficult the obstacle, the stronger you become after hurdling it.                 241. "The voice of their father will encourage them to fight the battle."                 242. The victory isn't just walking across the goal line, it's struggling through opposition to the goal.                 243. Fight discouragement, pray & read the Word!                 244. I don't do business with the Devil. I don't care to have him around & I'll scrap it out with him any day before I'll reach any compromise & live with him.                 245. The Lord & His Angels & you are far more powerful than the Devil & his demons.                 246. Even Satan has to obey your commands in the Name of Jesus. He might fight against you for awhile like he is, but sooner or later he's going to have to knuckle under.                 247. We who have Jesus have more power than Satan, we have more power than the demons, because we have the power of God & the power of His Spirit of Love.                 248. "At the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow!"--Phil.2:10a.                 249. You have to baptise yourself constantly in prayer, soak yourself in the Word, memorise & quote constantly to the Devil & to yourself. You have to wage a militant warfare against the Enemy!                 250. We rebuke you, Satan, in Jesus' name & all your powers & angels & evil spirits! Thank You for Thy great mighty army, Lord, that surrounds us, that resists all the powers of Hell though they be let loose against us! Even one angel is enough to deal with them all. "The angel of the Lord encampeth around them that fear Him & delivereth them." Thank You Lord for all Thy goodness & mercy! Help us to stay close to Thee in the charmed circle of Thy protection, in Jesus' name.                 251. When you rebuke the Devil you don't do it calmly, you get angry & practically yell & shout & curse & scream at him, you get so angry in the spirit!                 252. When the Enemy attacks it really gets us on the stick & on the ball & back close to the Lord & praying & working & fighting back & revives us spiritually & kills that old lazy lethargy that sets in when everything is going too smoothly & so easy that we don't have to stir up ourselves or fight or work very hard!                 253. When you attack the Enemy he tries to hit back. Nevertheless, God's Word says if you attack him with great faith, if you resist him, he shall flee from thee. That doesn't mean you're not going to have a little fight before he runs. He may fight a little bit, but if you keep on fighting he can't take it, he will turn & run!                 254. "When the Enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God will raise up a standard against him."--Isa.59:19b.                 255. Don't take the Devil's no for an answer, push ahead until you totally defeat him!                 256. You've got to be militant, you've got to be positive, you've got to rise up & fight the Devil, not just be passive!                 257. "And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, & whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven; & whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven."--Mat.16:19.                 258. "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations & every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. And bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."--2Cor.10:3-5.                 259. "Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord & in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil."--Eph.6:10,11.

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                260. Take time to be holy--wholly His & whole in body, mind & spirit.                 261. To neglect your fellowship with the King of kings because you're so busy with the affairs of the Kingdom can be disastrous to your spiritual life & communion with the Lord.

FORSAKING ALL

                262. You can't just forsake all once, you've got to keep doing it every day.                 263. Forsaking all is not just something you do once & for all, you have got to constantly be forsaking in your heart.                 264. Every day you're forsaking the Devil's voice & temptations to try to suck you back into the old ways & the old system.                 265. Sometimes God makes you forsake a thing or lay it on the altar just to see if you're willing to forsake all to follow Him, when He intends to give it back to you, like Isaac.                 266. You don't have to have very much to have great possessions, it only has to be just a little bit bigger than God in your eyes. It only has to keep you from serving God. It only has to be just enough to keep you from breaking loose & shaking loose & serving God.

GIVING

                267. By giving your all, you're going to get everything!                 268. When we don't give willingly or cheerfully, then we're really not giving.                 269. If you give your all to Him, He gives His all to you.                 270. We have to burn & be consumed to send up that beautiful smoke & sweet fragrance.                 271. Lay him or her on the altar, lay this or that on the altar for God & don't even expect to get it back. If you're giving with that motive & intention it's no sacrifice. Most of the sacrifices God asks you to give you think you give them up forever, but I'll tell you this for your encouragement, I've found that God gave me many things back that I gave up for Him. He gave me back things that I gave up for Him when He could trust me with them.

HOLY SPIRIT

                272. Holy Spirit oil poured on troubled waters calms the waters. Oil that's poured on squeaky parts of a mechanism that are complaining & howling & growling & groaning makes that part of the mechanism quiet & run smoothly without complaint. He just pours in His Holy Spirit & just fills you from top to bottom until you just overflow, & it just flows out all over you & covers you up & hides you so that they can only see Jesus in you. All they can see is Jesus & you just disappear.                 273. When you get filled with His Holy Spirit, you get so full of the Spirit you run over! It runs out your eyes, it runs out your mouth, it runs out your ears, it runs out all over so we see no man save Jesus only. We see only Jesus in you, that same glorious expression, happiness, joy, spirit, smile & peace that is a little bit of Heaven on Earth, the reflection of Heaven in you.

HUMILITY/PRIDE

                274. Great men forget themselves, that is why they are remembered by others.                 275. It's a wonderful thing when you can see you're wrong.                 276. People who are proud & selfish lay themselves wide open for the Devil.                 277. Once the Lord humbles you, He has to keep humbling you. He's got to keep you humble.                 278. When you get too proud & so smart that you can't stand to have somebody give you a suggestion or correction, you're in pretty bad shape.                 279. God does some things to make you humble, other things to keep you humble, & yet others to make sure you're still humble.                 280. This is a war! We have little time for sensitivity, nursing our wounds & hurt feelings, we must fight on!                 281. Let me be when I am weary         Just a little bit more cheery,         Think a little more of others         And a little less of me!                 282. Never be ashamed to ask for help or prayer when you need it!                 283. The very thing you're fighting is the thing God wants to use to humble & break you.                 284. Death to self, death to sin, death to your own ideas, death to your own strength, death to your reputation, death to your pride are hard to go through, but they're worth it because they bring out the life of Christ.                 285. Confess your faults, never defend them.                 286. There's perfect rest in humility, because humility has love & faith without fear.                 287. God can only use truly broken men & women.                 288. There is no limit to what can be accomplished if you give the Lord all the glory for it.                 289. The less there is of you, the more the light gets through.                 290. If you're not big enough to stand criticism, you're too small to be praised.                 291. Stop & praise the Lord & have a good laugh at your own weaknesses & ridiculous inabilities to do anything or accomplish anything except for the Lord.                 292. It's not easy to confess you've been wrong, but it's a lot easier than staying wrong to try to support a false position.                 293. Selfishness is pride. The selfish believe they deserve more than others, therefore they are unwilling to share.                 294. Lack of power is the result of fear born of pride, fear of not succeeding, fear of being embarrassed, fear of being ashamed. Such fear always comes as a result of pride, because the proud are afraid of failure.                 295. The rich & the powerful are the most fearful people in the work.                 296. It's a sign of pride if we're too sensitive & we snap back or we feel hurt. Sensitiveness is born of pride, & pride is of the Enemy.                 297. If there's anything any soldier has got to learn to do, it's to be able to take a cussing out by his commanding officer for his mistakes & say, "Yes sir, thank you sir, & what next sir?" Even if it hurts. This is a war & we have little time for sensitivity & nursing our wounds or hurt feelings. We must fight on.                 298. When you have the poor-me's, you're usually just trying to get attention & sympathy. Your pride is wounded, your ego has been a little deflated, your self-confidence has been a little shaken & you begin to feel sorry for yourself & wonder if you should quit. The cure is to forget yourself & love others.                 299. Some people are so damned delicate they can't stand anything. They can't take the slightest pressure, they collapse because they're not holding on to the Lord, they're not standing on the Word, they're not believing in His promises. They're depending on some damned self- righteousness of their own, some depraved greatness they think they have. Let me tell you, that kind of sanctimonious hypocrisy can't stand the shock treatments of the Devil, it shatters very easily.                 300. Not being able to take chastening & correction for your mistakes is a very poor example of humility.                 301. Even an inferiority complex & really being bothered by it in a way is pride. You're worried about what people think about you.                 302. Don't feel sorry for yourself & try to blame it on God & quit, self-pity is pride, hurt feelings are damnable, stinking self, & at the root of every doubt, there is sin, the heinous, diabolical sin of rebellion against God's Will.                 303. If we'll just recognise that we're little children who don't know anything, & the Lord is the One Who knows it all & that He's the only only One Who is really wise & knows what He's doing & that we must just follow Him, then He can really show His power.                 304. As long as you're calling you can expect God to answer. As long as you're seeking, God will show the way. As long as you admit that you're empty, you'll be able to be filled.                 305. The hardest words to say in any language are: I was wrong.                 306. If you are not willing to admit you are wrong & confess that you need help & an answer & solution to your problem, God will never have an opportunity to do the miracle you need. That takes humility of the kind only God can give.                 307. It is better to be humble & bend gracefully when it storms, than to be proud & stiff & break when adversity comes.

You are so loved...

"MARIA'S VICTORY QUOTES! --Compiled and Read on Audio Cassette by Maria"