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 CHAMBERSNever focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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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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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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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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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 best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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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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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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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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Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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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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The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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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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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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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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