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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
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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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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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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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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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