Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
OSWALD CHAMBERS
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Oswald Chambers89 quotes“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”
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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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Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers 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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