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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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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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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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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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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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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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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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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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