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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

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Prayer, Exercise
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.312, Discovery House

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.

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Christian, Jesus, Overcoming
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.387, Discovery House

Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

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Spiritual, Hands, Waiting
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Hope: A Holy Promise”, p.63, Discovery House

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

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Jesus, Men, Purpose
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.15, Discovery House

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

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Prayer, Understanding, Succeed
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.311, Discovery House

It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.

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Christian, Jesus, Memories
"My Utmost for His Highest".

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

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Law, Perception, Moral

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

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Mean, Deception, Suffering
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.

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Men, Hands, Kingdoms

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

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Spiritual, Giving, Lust
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.94, Discovery House

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

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Christian, Mind, Spirit
Oswald Chambers (1936). “The Moral Foundations of Life: A Series of Talks on the Ethical Principles of the Christian Life”

Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

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Christian, Pain, Heart
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

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Jesus, Sorry, Sins Not
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

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Suffering, Causes, Human Life
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

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Prayer, Reality, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.

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God, Real, Common Sense
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Highest Good / The Pilgrim's Song Book / Thy Great Redemption”, p.37, Discovery House

Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.

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Spiritual, Moving, People
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.537, Discovery House

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

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Book, Reading, Men

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

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Dark, Garden, Ignored

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

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Sadness, Mean, Expression

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

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Character, Trying, Arguing
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.464, Discovery House

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

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Real, Reading, Air
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.32, Discovery House

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

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

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

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Inspirational, Friendship, God
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Shade of His Hand: Talks on the Book of Ecclesiastes”, p.82, Discovery House

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

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Religious, Religion, Obedience

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