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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.

Oswald Chambers

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
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
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
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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God Himself Neglect Time Work
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Circumstance Complaint Ourselves Realization Surrender
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
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Fulfill God Seek Yourself
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
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
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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Damage God Noise Solitude World
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
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God Obedience Reason Right Yourself
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself
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
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
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
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Character Confidence Faith Ourselves Time Understand
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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Alone Beginning Friendship God Ourselves Question Suffering Teaching
Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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Father Himself Man Obedience Willing
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.
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God Ourselves Prayer Purpose
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Answer Prayer Way Yourself
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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God Learning Listening Yourself
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
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
Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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God Habit Life Romance Talk

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