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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 best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
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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God Happiness Himself Planning
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Character Confidence Faith Ourselves Time Understand
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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Glory God Himself Judgement Place
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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Character God Hard Time Journey Ourselves
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
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
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
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
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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Complete Himself Moments Power Spirit Weakness
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Damage God Noise Solitude World
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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Carry Earth Heaven Man
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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Flow God Obedience Ourselves Reality
Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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God Remember Service Yourself
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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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk 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
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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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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Earth God Hell Ourselves Power Religious Spirit
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Choice God Himself Suffering Willing
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
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
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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Faith Myself Person See Understand Way
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings

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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