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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.

Oswald Chambers

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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Faint Faith Life Walk Wings
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Calculation God Ourselves Worry
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
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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Compare Friendship God Shadow Yourself
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Determination Ourselves Spring Way
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
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
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Choice God Himself Suffering Willing
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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Need Place Prayer Yourself
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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Growth Measurement Sensitive Sin
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
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Complete God Loyalty Yourself
God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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Business God Man Realization Woman World
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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Faith Leadership Love Oneself
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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Condition God Learning Life Place 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 a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Himself Intimacy Person Relationship Time Visible Walk
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
God speaks in the language you know best – not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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Best Circumstance God Talk Yourself
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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Cost Discipline Follow Insult Talk Yourself
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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Flow God Obedience Ourselves Reality
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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Character Evidence God Regard Truth Word
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
Trust God, and do the next thing.
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God One Liner Trust
The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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Judgement Ourselves People
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
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
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
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Fear God Remark Yourself

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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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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