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The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Kingdoms, Christ
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

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Mean, Portions, Interiors

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

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Giving, Important, Quality
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.453, Discovery House

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

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Real, Ideas, Needs
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.339, Discovery House

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

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Block, Order, People
Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Passion, Rights
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.635, Discovery House

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

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Self, Elements, Power Of God
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.271, Discovery House

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

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Atheist, Attitude, Real
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.327, Discovery House

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

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Men, Valleys, Prove
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.59, Discovery House

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

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Christianity, Reasoning
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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Spiritual, People, Unseen

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

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Doe, Asking, Asking God
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.164, Discovery House

We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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Mutiny, Red, Facts

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

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Struggle, Helping Others, Thinking
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

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Heart, Painful Experiences, Cry
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.342, Discovery House

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

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

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

Oswald Chambers
Blessing
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.36, Discovery House

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

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Religion, Wonder

A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Men, People
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.191, Discovery House

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

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God, Faith, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.56, Discovery House

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

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Jesus, Cost, Insult
Oswald Chambers (2014). “Love: A Holy Command”, p.15, Discovery House

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".

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

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

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Grace, Favors, Overflow
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

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