A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
OSWALD CHAMBERSA life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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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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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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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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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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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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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 root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
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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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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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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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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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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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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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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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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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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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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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