Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
OSWALD CHAMBERSDon’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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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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 is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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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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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
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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 proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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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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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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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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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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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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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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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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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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