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 CHAMBERSIt 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 main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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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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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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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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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The 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.
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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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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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