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Don’t read to remember; read to realize.

Oswald Chambers

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
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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God Happiness Himself Planning
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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Best Measurement Obedience Spiritual
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
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
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
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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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
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 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
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Expectation God Life Manifestation Moral Ourselves
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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Faith Myself Person See Understand Way
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People

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