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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.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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Father Himself Man Obedience Willing
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
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
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Fulfill God Seek Yourself
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Character Confidence Faith Ourselves Time Understand
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Best Circumstance God Talk Yourself
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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Complete Himself Moments Power Spirit Weakness
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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Activity Atmosphere Himself Important Influence Man
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
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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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth Yourself
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
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
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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Bright Glow Greatness Growth Shine
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
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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Broken Heart Purpose World Yourself

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