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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Artifical Battle Lost Won World
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Criticism God Ourselves
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Devil God Myself Purpose World
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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Fear God Remark Yourself
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Blessing God Himself Seek Time
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Damage God Noise Solitude World
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk Yourself
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God Obedience Reason Right Yourself
The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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Conqueror Fear Himself Truth
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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God Obedience Pass Reach Spiritual Time
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Character God Hard Time Journey Ourselves

To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

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