It is never our earnestness that brings us into touch with God, but our Lord Jesus Christ’s vitalizing death. (See Hebrews 10:19-23)
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Christ’s Vitalizing Death – Oswald Chambers
Don’t Refuse the Light – Oswald Chambers
It is a matter of indifference to God’s grace how abominable I am if I come to the light; but woe be to me if I refuse the light. (See John 3:19-21)
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Come Do This With Me – Oswald Chambers
A child always admires anyone with skill, and the teacher who says, “Do this and that has no influence over a child compared with the one who says, “Come and do this with me.” When a child has seen his teacher do a thing and is asked to do it, instantly the instinct of emulation is at work.
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Be True to Christ – Oswald Chambers
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
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Straddling Truth and Sin? – Oswald Chambers
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God’s truth and remain in sin.
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Get Your Brain on the Word of God – Oswald Chambers
The great need for the saint is to get his brains at work on the Word of God; otherwise he will stagnate, no matter how much he may name the Name of God.
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Prayer is Life – Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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Darkness is Paralyzed by Prayer – Oswald Chambers
The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think to pray.
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Understanding Intercession – Oswald Chambers
Intercession does not develop the one who intercedes; it blesses the lives of those for whom he intercedes. The reason so few of us intercede is because we don’t understand this.
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