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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.

Oswald Chambers

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Business God Man Realization Woman World
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
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
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 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
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
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
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
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
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
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Gold Intellectual Obedience Rule Spiritual Understand
The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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Fulfill God Seek Yourself
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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Learning Ourselves Stay Teaching True
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
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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God Heaven Hell Ignorance Interest Meaning
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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God Greatness Himself Person Rare
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
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
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Character God Hard Time Journey Ourselves
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
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
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Future Hands Himself Leaving Past
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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Need Place Prayer Yourself

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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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