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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Oswald Chambers

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Man Oneself Soul Woman
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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God Goodness Sin Suspicious
Never 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.
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Difficult Flow Focus Obstacle Remember Yourself
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
Don’t read to remember; read to realize.
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Reading Realization Remember
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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Appointment Circumstance Creation Divine God Important Leadership Ourselves
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Artifical Battle Lost Won World
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Compare Friendship God Shadow Yourself
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 way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
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
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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Bright Glow Greatness Growth Shine
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
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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Earth God Hell Ourselves Power Religious Spirit

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