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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.

Oswald Chambers

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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Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
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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Design Experience God Live Personal Place Understand Yourself
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Build Life Ourselves Strength
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
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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God Heaven Hell Ignorance Interest Meaning
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
Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Reading Realization Remember
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
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
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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Father Himself Man Obedience Willing
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
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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Appointment Circumstance Creation Divine God Important Leadership Ourselves
The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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Character Greatness Himself Man Test
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Fulfill God Seek Yourself
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation

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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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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