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.
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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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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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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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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.
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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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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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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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