You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWe 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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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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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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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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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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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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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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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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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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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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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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