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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSFaith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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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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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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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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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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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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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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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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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?
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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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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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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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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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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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