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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.

Oswald Chambers

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God Obedience Reason Right Yourself
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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God Heaven Hell Ignorance Interest Meaning
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Difficult Eyes God Prayer
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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Blessing God Himself Seek Time
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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Assurance Endurance Ourselves Perseverance
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Build Life Ourselves Strength
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Choice God Himself Suffering Willing
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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Carry Earth Heaven Man
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
To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth Yourself
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself

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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