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Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

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Inspiration, Simple, Everyday Things
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.114, Discovery House

Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

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Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

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Song, Dark, Hands
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.100, Discovery House

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

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Roots, Grows, Refuse
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.501, Discovery House

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.

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Spiritual, Intellectual, Criticism
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.88, Discovery House

God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

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Men, Saint, Holiness

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

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Jesus, Mean, Christ
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.705, Discovery House

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

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Winning, Missionary, Doe

By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.

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Reality, Self, People

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

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Joy, Purpose, Born Again
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

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Christian, Jesus, Men
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.42, Discovery House

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

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Perfect, Purpose, Use
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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Ordinary, Valleys, Stuff
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.493, Discovery House

Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

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Rooms, States, Constant
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.11, Discovery House

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

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Faces, Spirit, Truth Is
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.270, Discovery House

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

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Religious, Jesus, Real
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.188, Discovery House

The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.

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Spiritual, Blessed, Entering
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.100, Discovery House

We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.

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Mean, Three, Hundred
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.654, Discovery House

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

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Spiritual, Jesus, Mean
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.204, Discovery House

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

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Religious, Jesus, Heart

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

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Love, Spiritual, Attitude

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Heart, Lasts
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.351, Discovery House

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

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Teaching, Men, Giving
"Studies in the Sermon on the Mount".

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

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Faith, Mean, Knowing
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

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Satisfaction, Our Lives, Seeking
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.511, Discovery House

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