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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Oswald Chambers

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
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
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
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Difficult Eyes God 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
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
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Devotion God Person Reason Religion Work
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
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
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
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Beautiful Belief Beware Sound Yourself
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
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
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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God Himself Neglect Time Work
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself

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