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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSBeware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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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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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 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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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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