We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWhen we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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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.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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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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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
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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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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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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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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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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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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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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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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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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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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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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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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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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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