If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
OSWALD CHAMBERSYielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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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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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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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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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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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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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 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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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 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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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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.
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