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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Oswald Chambers

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
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare
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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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth Yourself
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
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
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
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
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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End Happiness Holy Man
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
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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Learning Ourselves Stay Teaching True
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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God Patience Reality Shape Vision Way
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
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
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
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Blessing God Himself Seek Time
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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Difficult Flow Focus Obstacle Remember Yourself
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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Assurance Endurance Ourselves Perseverance
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Business God Man Realization Woman World
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
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
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Man Oneself Soul Woman
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Circumstance Complaint Ourselves Realization Surrender
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

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