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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Oswald Chambers

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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Growth Way Weakness Yourself
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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Character God Happiness Intimacy Life
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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Destroy Division Face Life Yourself
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
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
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk Yourself
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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God Himself Holy Intense Love
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
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
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
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
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Broken Heart Purpose World Yourself
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
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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Change Person Prayer Sight Truth 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
Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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God Remember Service Yourself

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