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Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

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Consistency, Conviction, Fetish
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

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

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

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Heart, Intellectual, Passionate

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

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Prayer, Two, Waiting

God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we can get it wrong when we think of the afterwards. what men call training and preparation, God calls the end… if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious.

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Men, Thinking, Preparation
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.62, Discovery House

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

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Giving, Treasure, Poverty
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.151, Discovery House

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

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Divine, Resources, Walks
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Grace and Truth: A Holy Pursuit”, p.71, Discovery House

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

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Running, Jesus, Men

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

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Religious, Religion, Kicking
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.291, Discovery House

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

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Morning, Prayer, Blessed

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

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Letting Go, Doe, Fruit

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

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Mutiny, Sin
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.368, Discovery House

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Giving Up, Lying
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.33, Discovery House

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

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Prayer, Mean, Asking

Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

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Dream, Trust In God
Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

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Pain, Son, Men
Oswald Chambers, Kermit Zarley, James R. Adair, Harry Verploegh (1992). “101 days in the Gospels with Oswald Chambers: including selections from The Gospels interwoven in the words of the New International Version by Kermit Zarley”, Victor

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

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Christ, Devotion, Threat

The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

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

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His Love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but to "to reveal His Son in me

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Son, Reality, Men
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.17, Discovery House

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

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Heart, Rights, Independence
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.337, Discovery House

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

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Father, Broken, Watches
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Not Knowing Whither: The Steps of Abraham's Faith”, p.89, Discovery House

Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

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Christian, Jesus, People
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.478, Discovery House

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

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Private Life
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.173, Discovery House

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

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Jesus, Attitude, Sacred
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.25, Discovery House

The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

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Christian, Spiritual, Determination
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.45, Discovery House

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