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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.

Oswald Chambers

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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Character Expression God Goodness Human Religion
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
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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Devil God Myself Purpose World
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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
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
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
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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Complete Himself Moments Power Spirit Weakness
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
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
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
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Answer Prayer Way Yourself
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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Flow God Obedience Ourselves Reality
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
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation

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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