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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.

Oswald Chambers

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Beautiful Belief Beware Sound 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
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
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
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare
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
The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.
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Character Greatness Himself Man Test
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Evidence Inspirational Ourselves Relationship Right
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Broken Heart Purpose World 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
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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Activity Atmosphere Himself Important Influence 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
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 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 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

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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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