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he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

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

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

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Prayer, Waiting, Trying
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.30, Discovery House

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

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Jesus, Teaching, Men
Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

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Doe, Satan, Possibility
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.542, Discovery House

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

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Character, Giving, Doe
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.70, Discovery House

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

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Doors, Heaven, Humanity
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.93, Discovery House

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

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

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

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Prayer, Doe, Fit
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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Prayer, Way, Intercession
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

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Jesus, Example, Today

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

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Shoes, Perspective, Mind

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

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Believe, Character, Men

Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Character, And Love

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

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Prayer, Father, Giving

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

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Spiritual, Ideas, Waiting
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.23, Discovery House

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

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Creative, Principles

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

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Letting Go, Jesus, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.217, Discovery House

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

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Prayer, Evidence, Praying To God
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

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Jesus, Thinking, Helping Others

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

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Obedience, Inclination, Conditions
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.43, Discovery House

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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Joy, Soul, Forgotten
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

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Christian, Giving Up, Rights
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.25, Gideon House Books

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

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Temptation, Cost, Earth

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

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Spiritual, Promise, Matter
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.241, Discovery House

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

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Light, Fading Light, Fading
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

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