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• Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

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  Men, Use, Wounds

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• 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

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  Spiritual, World, Spiritual Life

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.510, Discovery House

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• If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

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  Blessing, People, Vision

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.513, Discovery House

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• Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Character

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.74, Discovery House

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• If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

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  Challenges, Growth, Discouragement

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.593, Discovery House

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• The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.

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  Christian, Father, Thinking

  "If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer".

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• Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

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  Prayer, Order, Perfect

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.30, Discovery House

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• We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Ideas

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.64, Discovery House

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• The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

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  Prayer, Real, Soul

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.354, Discovery House

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• The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

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  Secret Places, Battle, World

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.88, Discovery House

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

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  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

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  Majority, Levels, Satisfaction

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.169, Discovery House

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• We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

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  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

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• The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

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  Voice, Perfect, Zephyr

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.461, Discovery House

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• The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

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  Jesus, Principles, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Psychology of Redemption: Making All Things New”, p.37, Discovery House

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• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

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  Jesus, Men, Understanding

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

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  Suffering, World, Midst

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• Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

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  Mean, Differences, Littles

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.64, Discovery House

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• God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

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  Complaining, Explanation, No Complaining

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.725, Discovery House

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• The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.

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  Overcoming, Truth Is, Conqueror

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Grace and Truth: A Holy Pursuit”, p.75, Discovery House

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• Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

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  Air, Sea, Earth

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.113, Discovery House

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• Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

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  Prayer, Attitude, Son

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• Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

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  Inspirational, Life, Determination

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.381, Discovery House

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• 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.

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  Reflection, Thinking, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.2, Discovery House

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• Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

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  Attitude, Devil, Matter

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.170, Discovery House

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