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bordarsorrisos · 1 year
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A fé nunca sabe para onde está sendo conduzida, mas ama e conhece Aquele que está conduzindo.
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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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icannotbejondenden47 · 3 months
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petitefleuriste · 2 years
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christianhomemaker · 7 months
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Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!” John 7:38
Our Lord’s teaching was always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a person— His purpose is to make a person exactly like Himself, and the Son of God is characterized by self-expenditure.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us. Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us— and we cannot measure that at all.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
-Oswald Chambers
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renee-writer · 3 months
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Looking for the Savior
Once there was a man whose life was one of misery. The days were cloudy, the nights were long. Henry didn’t want to be unhappy, but he was. By the passing of the years, his life had changed. His children were grown. The neighborhood was different. The city seemed harsher. He wasn’t happy. He decided to ask his minister what was wrong.
“ Am I unhappy for some sin I have committed?”
“Yes,” the wise pastor replied, “you have sinned.”
“And what might that sin be?”
“Ignorance,” came to reply, “the sin of ignorance. One of your neighbors is the Messiah in disguise, and you have not seen Him.”
 The old man left the office stunned, “the Messiah is one of my neighbors?”  He began to think whom it might be.
 Tom the butcher? No, he’s too lazy. My cousin Mary down the street? No, too much pride? Aaron the paper boy? No, too indulgent. The man was confounded. Every person he knew had defects. But one was the Messiah. He began to look for Him.
 He began to notice things he hadn’t seen. The grocer often carried the sacks to the cars of the older ladies. Maybe he is the Messiah. The officer at the corner always had a smile for the kids. Could it be? And the young couple who moved next door. How kind they are to their cat. Maybe one of them…
 
What time he saw things in people he’d never seen. And with time his outlook on life began to change. The bounce return to his step. His eyes took on a friendly sparkle. When other spoke he'd listen. After all, he might be listening to the Messiah. When anyone ask for help, he’d respond; after all this might be the Messiah needing assistance.
The change of attitude was so significant that someone asked him why he was so happy. “I don't know,” he answered. “all I know is that things changed when I started looking for God.”
Now, that's curious. The old man saw Jesus because he didn’t know what He looked like. The people in Jesus’ day missed Him because they thought they did.
 How are things looking in your neighborhood?
A Gentle Thunder
Max Lucado
God came as a baby,
giving and entrusting Himself to me
He expects my personal life to be a “ Bethlehem.”
 Am I allowing my natural life
to be slowly transformed
by the indwelling life of the Son of God?
 God's ultimate purpose is
that His Son might be exhibited in me.
Oswald Chamber
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idratherdreamofjune · 10 months
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It is ungovernably bad taste to talk about money in the natural domain, and so it is spiritually, and yet we talk as if our Heavenly Father had cut us off without a shilling! We think it a sign of real modesty to say at the end of a day—"Oh, well, I have just got through, but it has been a severe tussle." And all the Almighty God is ours in the Lord Jesus! And He will tax the last grain of sand and the remotest start to bless us if we will obey Him. What does it matter if external circumstances are hard? Why should they not be! If we give way to self-pity and indulge in the luxury of misery, we banish God's riches from our own lives and hinder others from entering into His provision. No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest on the throne. It opens our mouths to spit out murmurings... "God is able to make all grace abound," then learn to lavish the grace of God on others.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, for May 16th
Let us approach the throne of grace with confidence!
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reformedfaith · 9 months
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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience
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dylanadreams · 1 year
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"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light."
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Give thanks to God that He is there, no matter what is happening.
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icannotbejondenden47 · 5 months
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When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world. Oswald Chambers
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petitefleuriste · 2 years
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christianhomemaker · 6 months
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The fiery furnaces are there by God’s direct permission. It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances; we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
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The Love of God.
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walkswithmyfather · 2 years
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“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”
—Oswald Chambers
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