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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

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 way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
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
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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God Patience Reality Shape Vision Way
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
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
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
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 great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Disturb Faith God Greatness Man
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
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
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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Call Love Obedience Oneself
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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God Himself Holy Intense Love
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
Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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End God Ourselves Religious
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
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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Inspirational Ourselves Prayer
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Best Circumstance God Talk Yourself
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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God Obedience Pass Reach Spiritual Time
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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Break Form Human Life Slave Willing
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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Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
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
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
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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Choice God Greatness Yourself
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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Circumstance God Ourselves Responsible Transformation

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