Love & Encouragement

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Have I ever been carried away to do something for God
not because it was my duty,
nor because it was useful,
nor because there was anything in it at all
beyond the fact that I love Him?
-Oswald Chambers

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Do beware of legal obedience,
Striving after a life of true obedience
under a sense of duty.
Ask God to show you
the "newness" of life
which is needed for a new and full obedience....
Believe in the love of God
and the grace of our Lord Jesus.
Believe in the spirit given in you,
enabling you to love,
and so causing you to walk in God's statutes.
In the strength of this faith,
in the assurance of sufficient grace,
made perfect in weakness, enter into God's love
and the live of living obedience it works.
For it is nothing but the continual presence of Jesus
in His love that can fit you for continual obedience....
Daily obedience to all that God will
of me is possible, is possible to me.
In His strength I yeild myself to Him for it.
-Andrew Murray

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Give me such love for God and men,
as will blot out all hatred and bitterness.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The teaching of Jesus is out of all proportion
to our natural way of looking at things and it comes with
astonishing discomfort to begin with.
We have slowly to form our walk and conversation
on the line of the precepts of Jesus Christ
as the Holy Spirit applies them to our circumstances.
The sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules
and regulations: it is a statement of the life we will live
when the Holy spirit is getting His way with us.
- Oswald Chambers

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As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life
worthy of the calling you have received.  Be completely
humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:1-2

For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher that your ways
and My thought than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9

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"The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit 

and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. 

The very powers of darkness

are paralyzed by prayer; 

no spiritualistic seance can succeed in

the presence of a humble praying saint. 

No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds 

fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer."

- Oswald Chambers