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Oswald Chambers

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
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Compare Friendship God Shadow Yourself
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
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
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
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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
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 strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Build Life Ourselves Strength
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
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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Complete Himself Moments Power Spirit Weakness
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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God Proverb Yourself
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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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
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.
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Design Experience God Live Personal Place Understand Yourself
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
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
Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Forever Gift God Life Worth

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