It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
OSWALD CHAMBERSNever take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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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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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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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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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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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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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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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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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 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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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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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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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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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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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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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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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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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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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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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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