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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.

Oswald Chambers

The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
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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Glory God Himself Judgement Place
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 Ourselves Prayer Purpose
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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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Blessing God Himself Seek Time
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk 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
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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Devil God Myself Purpose World
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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Earth God Hell Ourselves Power Religious Spirit
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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Call Love Obedience Oneself
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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Inspirational Ourselves Prayer
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 Learning Listening Yourself
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Damage God Noise Solitude World
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.
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God Himself Holy Intense Love
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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End God Ourselves Religious
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

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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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