When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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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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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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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to 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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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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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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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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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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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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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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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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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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