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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

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Hurt, May
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.471, Discovery House

The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.

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Believe, Needs, Christianity
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.584, Discovery House

A ready person never needs to get ready.

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Needs, Ready, Persons
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.64, Discovery House

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

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Spiritual, Discipline, Details
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.577, Discovery House

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.

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Children, Light, Darkness
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.184, Discovery House

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

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People, Responsible
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.97, Discovery House

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

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Talking, Truth Is, Habit
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.731, Discovery House

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

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Spiritual, Degrees, Panic
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.324, Discovery House

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

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Jesus, Opinion, Said

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

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Men, Names, Facts
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.33, Discovery House

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

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Prayer, Cover Ups, Use
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.52, Discovery House

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

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Running, Giving, Waiting
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.28, Discovery House

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

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Men, Dying, Good Times

The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

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Christian, Jesus, Son
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.378, Discovery House

Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.

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Jesus, Dark, Men
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.320, Discovery House

To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.

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God, Christian, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.554, Discovery House

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

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Waiting, Life Is, Waiting On God
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Hope: A Holy Promise”, p.62, Discovery House

If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

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Jesus, Order, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.133, Discovery House

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

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Training, Missionary, Saint
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

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Enemy, Obsessed, Assault
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.326, Discovery House

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

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Weakness

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

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Waiting, Use, Firsts
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.110, Discovery House

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

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Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.548, Discovery House

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

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Prayer, Spirit, Holy
Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.100, Discovery House

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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Prayer, Son, Men

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