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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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.
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I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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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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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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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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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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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.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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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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