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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSAll our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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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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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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The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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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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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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 expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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