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My Personal Life May Be Crowded With Small Petty Incidents, Altogether Unnoticeable And Mean; But If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Haphazard Circumstances, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God, And When I Stand Face To Face With God I Will Discover That Through My Obedience Thousands Were Blessed. When Once God's Redemption Comes To The Point Of Obedience In A Human Soul, It Always Creates. If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Rush Through Me To Other Lives, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

-Oswald Chambers

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My Personal Life May Be Crowded With Small Petty Incidents, Altogether Unnoticeable And Mean; But If I Obey Jesus Christ In The Haphazard Circumstances, They Become Pinholes Through Which I See The Face Of God, And When I Stand Face To Face With God I Will Discover That Through My Obedience Thousands Were Blessed. When Once God's Redemption Comes To The Point Of Obedience In A Human Soul, It Always Creates. If I Obey Jesus Christ, The Redemption Of God Will Rush Through Me To Other Lives, Because Behind The Deed Of Obedience Is The Reality Of Almighty God.

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The Spirit Is The First Power We Practically Experience, But The Last Power We Come To Understand.

We Are In Danger Of Being Stern Where God Is Tender, And Of Being Tender Where God Is Stern.

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Are You Willing To Give And Be Poured Out Until You Are Used Up And Exhausted-not Seeking To Be Ministered To, But To Minister?

God Expects No Complaining On Our Part And Offers No Explanation On His Part.

Jesus Christ Became Incarnate For One Purpose, To Make A Way Back To God That Man Might Stand Before Him As He Was Created To Do, The Friend And Lover Of God Himself.

But The Miracle Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Offender Can Never Exhaust The Depths Of His Love.

We Have To Keep Letting Go, And Slowly And Surely The Great Full Life Of God Will Invade Us In Every Part, And Men Will Take Knowledge Of Us That We Have Been With Jesus.

It Is Better To Run The Risk Of Being Considered Indecisive, Better To Be Uncertain And Not Promise, Than To Promise And Not Fulfill.

The Inattentive, Slovenly Way We Drift Into The Presence Of God Is An Indication That We Are Not Bothering To Think About Him. Whenever Our Lord Spoke Of Prayer, He Said, "ask." It Is Impossible To Ask If You Do Not Concentrate.

Patience Has The Meaning Of Testing-a Thing Drawn Out And Tested, Drawn Out To The Last Strand In A Strain Without Breaking, And Ending In Sheer Joy. The Strain On A Violin String When Stretched To The Uttermost Gives It Its Strength; And The Stronger The Strain, The Finer Is The Sound Of Our Life For God, And He Never Strains More Than We Are Able To Bear.

If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

If A Crisis Has Come To You On Any Front, Surrender Your Will To Jesus Absolutely And Irrevocably.

The Christian Church Should Not Be A Secret Society Of Specialists, But A Public Manifestation Of Believers In Jesus.

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.

Personal Responsibility

It Is Possible To Know All About Doctrine And Yet Not Know Jesus. The Soul Is In Danger When Knowledge Of Doctrine Outsteps Intimate Touch With Jesus. ....have I A Personal History With Jesus Christ? The One Sign Of Discipleship Is Intimate Connection With Him, A Knowledge Of Jesus Christ Nothing Can Shake.

To Silence The Voice Of God Is Damnation In Time!

Faith For My Deliverance Is Not Faith In God. Faith Means, Whether I Am Visibly Delivered Or Not, I Will Stick To My Belief That God Is Love.

God Wants To Use Us As He Used His Own Son

When We Are Abandoned To God, He Works Through Us All The Time.

Trust Completely In God, And When He Brings You To A New Opportunity Of Adventure, Offering It To You, See That You Take It.

Joy Comes From Seeing The Complete Fulfillment Of The Specific Purpose For Which I Was Created And Born Again, Not From Successfully Doing Something Of My Own Choosing.

Never Be Hurried Out Of The Relationship Of Abiding In Him.

So Many Of Us Limit Our Praying Because We Are Not Reckless In Our Confidence In God. In The Eyes Of Those Who Do Not Know God, It Is Madness To Trust Him, But When We Pray In The Holy Spirit We Begin To Realize The Resources Of God, That He Is Our Perfect Heavenly Father, And We Are His Children.

Our Salvation Comes To Us So Easily Because It Cost God So Much.

Angels Cannot Preach The Gospel, Only Beings Such As Paul And You And I Can Preach The Gospel.

A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint- A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

Leave The Irreparable Past In His Hands, And Step Out Into The Irresistible Future With Him.

There Is Actually Only One Thing You Can Dedicate To God, And That Is Your Right To Yourself. If You Will Give God Your Right To Yourself, He Will Make A Holy Experiment Out Of You - And His Experiments Always Succeed.

When Once You Realize All That It Cost God To Forgive You, You Will Be Held As In A Vice, Constrained By The Love Of God.

Watch Your Motive Before God; Have No Other Motive In Prayer Than To Know Him.

Jesus Said, 'go ... And Make Disciples,' Not Converts To Your Opinions.

God Never Gives Us Discernment In Order That We May Criticize, But That We May Intercede.

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In Times Of Prosperity We Are Apt To Forget God; We Imagine It Does Not Matter Whether We Recognise Him Or Not. As Long As We Are Comfortably Clothed And Fed And Looked After, Our Civilisation Becomes An Elaborate Means Of Ignoring God.

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.

The Man Who Prays Ceases To Be A Fool

God Gives Us The Vision, Then He Takes Us Down To The Valley To Batter Us Into The Shape Of The Vision, And It Is In The Valley That So Many Of Us Faint And Give Way. Every Vision Will Be Made Real If We Will Have Patience.

We Are Not To Preach The Doing Of Good Things; Good Deeds Are Not To Be Preached, They Are To Be Performed.

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Prayer Imparts The Power To Walk And Not Faint.

Never Allow Anything To Divert You From Your Insight Into Jesus Christ. It Is The True Test Of Whether You Are Spiritual Or Not. To Be Unspiritual Means That Other Things Have A Growing Fascination For You. Since Mine Eyes Have Looked On Jesus, I’ve Lost Sight Of All Beside, So Enchained My Spirit’s Vision, Gazing On The Crucified.

It Is Not The Thing On Which We Spend The Most Time That Moulds Us, But The Thing That Exerts The Greatest Power. Five Minutes With God And His Word Is Worth More Than All The Rest Of The Day.

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If My Ruling Disposition Is Self-interest, I Perceive That Everything That Happens To Me Is Always For Or Against My Self-interest; If, On The Other Hand, My Ruling Disposition Is Obedience To God, I Perceive Him To Be At Work For My Perfecting In Everything That Happens To Me.

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Never Be Diplomatic And Careful About The Treasure God Gives. This Is Poverty Triumphant.

I Must Learn That The Purpose Of My Life Belongs To God, Not Me. God Is Using Me From His Great Personal Perspective, And All He Asks Of Me Is That I Trust Him. ... When I Stop Telling God What I Want, He Can Freely Work His Will In Me Without Any Hindrance. ... Self-pity Is Of The Devil, And If I Wallow In It I Cannot Be Used By God For His Purpose In The World.

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The Greatest Answer To Prayer Is That I Am Brought Into A Perfect Understanding With God, And That Alters My View Of Actual Things.

There Is Always One Fact More In Every Man's Case About Which We Know Nothing.

Prayer Is God's Answer To Our Poverty, Not A Power We Exercise To Obtain An Answer.

It Is Impossible To Get Exhausted In Work For God. We Get Exhausted Because We Try To Do God's Work In Our Own Way.

Watch Where Jesus Went. The One Dominant Note In His Life Was To Do His Father's Will. His Was Not The Way Of Wisdom Or Of Success, But The Way Of Faithfulness.

The Marvel Of The Redemptive Reality Of God Is That The Worst And The Vilest Can Never Get To The Bottom Of His Love. Paul Did Not Say That God Separated Him To Show What A Wonderful Man He Could Make Of Him, But To "to Reveal His Son In Me

If We Are Going To Live As Disciples Of Jesus, We Have To Remember That All Noble Things Are Difficult.

It Is A Trap To Presume That God Wants To Make Us Perfect Specimens Of What He Can Do— God’s Purpose Is To Make Us One With Himself.

The Purpose Of Prayer Is To Reveal The Presence Of God Equally Present, All The Time, In Every Condition.

Every God-given Vision Will Become Real If We Will Only Have Patience.

If Jesus Is A Teacher Only, Then All He Can Do Is To Tantalize Us By Erecting A Standard We Cannot Come Anywhere Near. But If By Being Born Again From Above We Know Him First As Savior, We Know That He Did Not Come To Teach Us Only. He Came To Make Us What He Teaches We Should Be. The Sermon On The Mount Is A Statement Of The Life We Will Live When The Holy Spirit Is Having His Way With Us.

If We Are Obsessed By God, Nothing Else Can Get Into Our Lives - Not Concerns, Nor Tribulation, Not Worries.

Take Yourself By The Scruff Of The Neck And Shake Off Your Incarnate Laziness.

The Call Of God Is Not A Reflection Of My Nature; My Personal Desires And Temperament Are Of No Consideration. As Long As I Dwell On My Own Qualities And Traits And Think About What I Am Suited For, I Will Never Hear The Call Of God.

It Is Inbred In Us That We Have To Do Exceptional Things For God: But We Have Not. We Have To Be Exceptional In The Ordinary Things, To Be Holy In Mean Streets, Among Mean People, And This Is Not Learned In Five Minutes

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.

The Greatest Word Of Jesus To His Disciples Is Abandon

Faith Is The Inborn Capacity To See God Behind Everything.

The True Expression Of Christian Character Is Not In Good-doing But In God-likeness.

You Say, "but He Has Not Answered." He Has, He Is So Near To You That His Silence Is The Answer. His Silence Is Big With Terrific Meaning That You Cannot Understand Yet, But Presently You Will.

The One Thing For Which We Are All Being Disciplined Is To Know That God Is Real. As Soon As God Becomes Real, Other People Become Shadows. Nothing That Other Saints Do Or Say Can Ever Perturb The One Who Is Built On God.

When You Fear God You Fear Nothing Else!

The Test Is The Sixty Seconds Of Every Minute, And The Sixty Minutes Of Every Hour, Not Our Times Of Prayer And Devotional Meetings.

There Are Not Three Stages In Spiritual Life-worship, Waiting, And Work. Some Of Us Go In Jumps Like Spiritual Frogs. We Jump From Worship To Waiting To Work. God's Idea Is That The Three Should Go Together. They Were Always Together In The Life Of Our Lord.

The Institutions Of Churchianity Are Not Christianity. An Institution Is A Good Thing If It Is Second; Immediately An Institution Recognizes Itself It Becomes The Dominating Factor.

Prayer Is An Effort Of Will.

We Are In Danger Of Forgetting That We Cannot Do What God Does, And That God Will Not Do What We Can Do.

When The Darkness Of Dismay Comes, Endure Until It Is Over, Because Out Of It Will Come That Following Of Jesus Which Is An Unspeakable Joy.

No Power On Earth Or In Hell Can Conquer The Spirit Of God In A Human Spirit

When We See Him, We Will Wonder That We Ever Could Have Disobeyed Him.

If You Yourself Do Not Cut The Lines That Tie You To The Dock, God Will Have To Use A Storm To Sever Them And To Send You Out To Sea. You Have To Get Out Past The Harbor Into The Great Dephts Of God, And Begin To Know Things For Yourself....beg In To Have Spiritual Discernment. Beware Of Paying Attention Or Going Back To What You Once Were, When God Wants You To Be Something That You Have Never Been.

Every Time We Pray Our Horizon Is Altered, Our Attitude To Things Is Altered, Not Sometimes But Every Time, And The Amazing Thing Is That We Don't Pray More.

Whenever God Touches Sin It Is Independence That Is Touched, An That Awakens Resentment In The Human Heart. Independence Must Be Blasted Clean Out, There Must Be No Such Thing Left, Only Freedom Which Is Very Different. Freedom Is The Ability Not To Insist On My Rights, But To See That God Gets His

God Seems To Have A Delightful Way Of Upsetting The Things We Have Calculated On Without Taking Him Into Account. We Get Into Circumstances Which Were Not Chosen By God, And Suddenly We Find We Have Been Calculating Without God; He Has Not Entered In As A Living Factor. The One Thing That Keeps Us From The Possibility Of Worrying Is Bringing God In As The Greatest Factor In All Our Calculations.

Speak, Lord”; Make Time To Listen. Chastening Is More Than A Means Of Discipline, It Is Meant To Get Me To The Place Of Saying, “speak, Lord.”

Have You Ever Sought God With Your Whole Heart, Or Have You Simply Given Him A Feeble Cry After Some Emotionally Painful Experience?

Painful Experiences

Not Every Man Can Carry A Full Cup. Sudden Elevation Frequently Leads To Pride And A Fall. The Most Exacting Test Of All To Survive Is Prosperity.

To Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

No Man Has Ever Gone Through The Crisis Of Deliberately Making Jesus Lord And Found Him To Be A Failure.

Why Shouldn’t We Experience Heartbreak? Through Those Doorways God Is Opening Up Ways Of Fellowship With His Son. Most Of Us Collapse At The First Grip Of Pain. We Sit Down At The Door Of God’s Purpose And Enter A Slow Death Through Self-pity. And All The So-called Christian Sympathy Of Others Helps Us To Our Deathbed. But God Will Not. He Comes With The Grip Of The Pierced Hand Of His Son, As If To Say, “enter Into Fellowship With Me; Arise And Shine.” If God Can Accomplish His Purposes In This World Through A Broken Heart, Then Why Not Thank Him For Breaking Yours?

Never Believe That The So-called Random Events Of Life Are Anything Less Than God’s Appointed Order. Be Ready To Discover His Divine Designs Anywhere And Everywhere.

The More You Fulfill Yourself, The Less You Will Seek God.

God Places His Saints Where They Will Bring The Most Glory To Him, And We Are Totally Incapable Of Judging Where That May Be.

If There Were Never Any Clouds (sorrows And Sufferings) In Our Lives, We Would Have No Faith. God Does Not Come Near Us Without Clouds.

Beware Of Harking Back To What You Once Were When God Wants You To Be Something You Have Never Been.

The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.

Beware Of Bartering The Word Of God For A More Suitable Conception Of Your Own.

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.

Intimate Relationships

Never Look For Right In The Other Man, But Never Cease To Be Right Yourself. We Always Look For Justice In This World, But There Is No Such Thing As Justice. Jesus Says — Never Look For Justice, But Never Cease To Give It.

Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.

Fretting Springs From A Determination To Get Our Own Way.

If In Preaching The Gospel You Substitute Your Knowledge Of The Way Of Salvation For Confidence In The Power Of The Gospel, You Hinder People From Getting To Reality.

Preaching The Gospel

Jesus Christ Carries On Intercession For Us In Heaven; The Holy Ghost Carries On Intercession In Us On Earth; And We The Saints Have To Carry On Intercession For All Men.

Do Not Have As Your Motive The Desire To Be Known As A Praying Man. Get An Inner Chamber In Which To Pray Where No One Knows You Are Praying, Shut The Door, And Talk To God In Secret.

It Is Easy To Say We Believe In God As Long As We Remain In The Little World We Choose To Live In; But Get Out Into The Great World Of Facts, The Noisy World Where People Are Absolutely Indifferent To You, Where Your Message Is Nothing More Than A Crazy Tale Belonging To A Bygone Age, Can You Believe God There?

In The Spiritual Domain, Criticism Is Love Turned Sour... If Criticism Becomes A Habit, It Will Destroy The Moral Energy Of The Life And Paralyze The Spiritual Force... Whenever You Are In A Critical Temper, It Is Impossible To Enter Into Communion With God. Criticism Makes You Hard And Vindictive And Cruel, And Leaves You With The Flattering Unction That You Are A Superior Person. It Is Impossible To Develop The Characteristics Of A Saint And Maintain A Critical Attitude.

The Whole Point Of Getting Things Done Is Knowing What To Leave Undone.

The Test Of The Life Of A Saint Is Not Success, But Faithfulness In Human Life As It Actually Is. We Will Set Up Success In Christian Work As The Aim; The Aim Is To Manifest The Glory Of God In Human Life, To Live The Life Hid With Christ In God In Human Conditions. Our Human Relationships Are The Actual Conditions In Which The Ideal Life Of God Is To Be Exhibited.

Never Try To Help God Fulfill His Word.

We Always Have Visions, Before A Thing Is Made Real. When We Realize That Although The Vision Is Real, It Is Not Real In Us, Then Is The Time That Satan Comes In With His Temptations, And We Are Apt To Say That It Is No Use To Go On. Instead Of The Vision Becoming Real, There Has Come The Valley Of Humiliation.

Have I Allowed My Personal Human Life To Become A 'bethlehem' For The Son Of God?

Make The Determination To Abide In Jesus Wherever You Are Now Or Wherever You May Be Placed In The Future.

With Christ, It Is Not How Much We Give, But What We Do Not Give That Is The Real Test.

If We Were Never Depressed We Would Not Be Alive - Only Material Things Don't Suffer Depression. If Human Beings Were Not Capable Of Depression, We Would Have No Capacity For Happiness And Exaltation. Whenever You Examine Yourself, Take Into Your Capacity For Depression.

Faith Never Knows Where It Is Being Led, It Knows And Loves The One Who Is Leading. Faith Is Not Resignation To A Power We Do Not Know; Faith Is Committal To One Whose Character We Do Know Because It Has Been Revealed To Us In Jesus Christ.

The Key To The Missionary's Work Is The Authority Of Jesus Christ, Not The Needs Of The Lost. We Are Inclined To Look On Our Lord As One Who Assists Us In Our Endeavors For God. Yet Our Lord Places Himself As The Absolute Sovereign And Supreme Lord Over His Disciples. He Does Not Say That The Lost Will Never Be Saved If We Don't Go- He Simply Says, "go Therefore And Make Disciples Of All The Nations...."

Sincerity Means That The Appearance And The Reality Are Exactly The Same.

If The Spirit Of God Detects Anything In You That Is Wrong, He Doesn't Ask You To Make It Right; He Only Asks You To Accept The Light Of Truth, And Then He Will Make It Right. A Child Of The Light Will Confess Sin Instantly And Stand Completely Open Before God. But A Child Of The Darkness Will Say, “oh, I Can Explain That.

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