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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSThe peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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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 speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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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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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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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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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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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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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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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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