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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

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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Evidence Inspirational Ourselves Relationship Right
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Future Hands Himself Leaving Past
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
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
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
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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God Obedience Pass Reach Spiritual Time
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
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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Choice God Greatness Yourself
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
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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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God Himself Neglect Time Work
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
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Best Circumstance God Talk 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

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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