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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

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
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
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
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
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
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
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Architecture Circumstance God Peace Side
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
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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Glory God Himself Judgement Place
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 never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Criticism God Ourselves
We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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Character Darkness Ourselves Reputation
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
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

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