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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSA saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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 way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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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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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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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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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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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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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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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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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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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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