We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
OSWALD CHAMBERSWhen 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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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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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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
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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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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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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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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
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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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