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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
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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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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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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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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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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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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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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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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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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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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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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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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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