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If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

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Mean, Being Disappointed, Disappointed
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.116, Discovery House

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

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Jesus, Mean, Cost
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.88, Discovery House

If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

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Religious, Jesus, Redemption

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

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Prayer, Men, Doors
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.25, Discovery House

In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

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Loyalty, Jesus, Cost
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.54, Discovery House

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.

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Bases
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Not Knowing Whither: The Steps of Abraham's Faith”, p.28, Discovery House

Sanctification means the impartation of the Holy qualities of Jesus Christ. It is His patience, His love, His holiness, His faith, His purity, His godliness, that is manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me.

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Jesus, Mean, Drawing
Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

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Knows
Oswald Chambers (2015). “He Shall Glorify Me: Talks on the Holy Spirit and Other Themes”, p.31, Discovery House

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

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Faith, Christian, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.37, Discovery House

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

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Would Be, Gods Will, Ready
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.85, Discovery House

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.

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People, Doe, Cost
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.33, Discovery House

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Men
Oswald Chambers (2015). “God's Workmanship”, p.61, Discovery House

If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

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Soul, Way, Clear
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.37, Discovery House

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

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Holiness, Abandonment, Values
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.115, Discovery House

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

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Stars, Lasts, Sand
"Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year".

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

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Perfection, Ultimate
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.246, Discovery House

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

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Temptation, Progress, Steps
Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

A river reaches places its source never knows.

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Rivers, Source, Knows

Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

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Angel, I Can
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.84, Discovery House

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

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Faith, Heart, Giving
"My Utmost for His Highest".

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

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

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

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Real, Vision, Given
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.394, Discovery House

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

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Eye, Men, Sight
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.65, Discovery House

We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

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

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

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

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