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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Discovery House

We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'

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Hands, Judging, Might
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

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Devotion, Overflow, Filled
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.3, Discovery House

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

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Grace, Soul, Sovereign

We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

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

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

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Jesus, Prayer, Views
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.201, Discovery House

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

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Spheres, Teach
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.39, Discovery House

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

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Believe, Trust In God, Easier
Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

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Christian, Lying, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.348, Discovery House

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

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Determination, Mean, Pride

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

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Grace, Soul, Foundation
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.239, Discovery House

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

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Hypocrisy, Today, Unreality
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.163, Discovery House

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

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Want, Connections, Buckets
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.82, Discovery House

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

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Jesus, Father, Way
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.77, Discovery House

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

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Habit
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.491, Discovery House

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

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Prayer, Soul, Body
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

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

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

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Ideas, People
Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

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Prayer, Heart, Thinking
"My Utmost for His Highest".

As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

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Israel, Years, Knowing
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.90, Discovery House

Obey Him with glad reckless joy.

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Joy, Reckless, Glad
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.187, Discovery House

Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

Oswald Chambers
Use

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

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Christian, Thinking, Leisure
"My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: Features the Author's Daily Prayers".

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

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God, Christian, Worry
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.326, Discovery House

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

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Prayer, Character, Way
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.186, Discovery House

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