Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
OSWALD CHAMBERSAll our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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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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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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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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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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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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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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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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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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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 greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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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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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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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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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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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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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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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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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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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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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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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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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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