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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

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Break Through, Break, Surprising
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.69, Discovery House

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

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Prayer, Silence, Grace
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.45, Discovery House

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

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Jesus, Prayer, Stupid
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.75, Discovery House

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

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Health, Doe, Saint

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

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Lasts, Firsts, Spirit
Oswald Chambers (2014). “Biblical Psychology: Christ-Centered Solutions for Daily Problems”, p.166, Discovery House

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

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Giving, Way, Delightful
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.228, Discovery House

In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.

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Jesus, Father, Hands
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.308, Discovery House

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

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Jesus, Archer, Sight

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

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Earthquakes, Stubbornness, Come Up

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

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Jesus, Produce, Miraculous
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.487, Discovery House

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

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

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

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Letting Go, Jesus, Decision
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.224, Discovery House

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

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Oneness, Christ, Divides
Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

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God, Faith, Confidence
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

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Stars, People, Heaven
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.200, Discovery House

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

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Years, Hours, Modern

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

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

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

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God, Christian, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.282, Discovery House

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

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Reality, Giving, Waiting
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.5, Discovery House

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

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Crystals, Alive, Should
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.101, Discovery House

Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.

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Jesus, Cheer, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.215, Discovery House

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

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People, Joy, Sorrow
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.328, Discovery House

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

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Abandoned
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.471, Discovery House

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

Oswald Chambers
Encouragement, Religious, Blessing

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