The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe 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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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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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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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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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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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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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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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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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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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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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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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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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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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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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