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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Oswald Chambers

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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Character Expression God Goodness Human Religion
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
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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Flow God Obedience Ourselves Reality
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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Conqueror Fear Himself Truth
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
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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Circumstance God Ourselves Responsible Transformation
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 root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
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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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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Character Greatness Himself Man Test
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Business God Man Realization Woman World
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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Condition God Learning Life Place Yourself
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way

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