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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

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Inspirational, Lord, Discipleship
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.258, Discovery House

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

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Delight, Spirit, Imagine
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.69, Discovery House

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

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Not Good Enough, Enemy, Faith In God
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.62, Discovery House

As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

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Christian, Causes, Our Relationship
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.29, Discovery House

The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.

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Prayer, Thinking, Way
"Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life".

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

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Doe, Saint, Usefulness
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.496, Discovery House

When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

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Giving, Vision, Cost
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.183, Discovery House

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

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Perfect, Purpose, Want
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.692, Discovery House

The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

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

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

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Self, Ions, Care

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

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Mean, Discipline, Speak
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.59, Discovery House

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

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Teacher, Jesus, Way
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”, p.5, Gideon House Books

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

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Blessing, Giving, God Blessing
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.23, Discovery House

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

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Identity, Rich, Possession
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Approved Unto God / Facing Reality”, p.26, Discovery House

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

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Real, People, Shadow
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.113, Discovery House

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

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Wine, Broken, Bread
Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

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

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

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Prayer, Self, Important
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.43, Discovery House

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

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Prayer, Personality, Essentials
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.34, Discovery House

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

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Running, Effort, Looks
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.16, Discovery House

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

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Gold, Weight, Worth It
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.64, Discovery House

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

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Determination, Reality, Lord
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.422, Discovery House

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

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Prayer, Silence, Bigger
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.46, Discovery House

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

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Prayer, Selfish, Reading
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.121, Discovery House

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

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

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