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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

Oswald Chambers

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
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
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 harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
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
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk
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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God Himself Neglect Time Work
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
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
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
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
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Destroy Division Face Life Yourself
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Criticism God Ourselves
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Character God Hard Time Journey Ourselves
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
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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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Alone Beginning Friendship God Ourselves Question Suffering Teaching
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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God Ourselves Prayer Purpose
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Difficult Eyes God Prayer
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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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
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
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
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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Design Experience God Live Personal Place Understand Yourself
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
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare
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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Call Love Obedience Oneself

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