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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

Oswald Chambers
Doe, Ends, Can Do
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.489, Discovery House

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Oswald Chambers
Priorities, Faces, Firsts
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.408, Discovery House

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

Oswald Chambers
Ideas, Want, Sanctification
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.473, Discovery House

Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Trust No One, Sight
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.189, Discovery House

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

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

We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.

Oswald Chambers
Dream, Opposites, Views

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

Oswald Chambers
Outcomes, Reason, Obedience
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

Oswald Chambers
Capacity, Behinds
Oswald Chambers (2015). “He Shall Glorify Me: Talks on the Holy Spirit and Other Themes”, p.178, Discovery House

The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'

Oswald Chambers
Thinking, Sight, Hands
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.287, Discovery House

Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.

Oswald Chambers
Prayer, Silence, Answers

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Prayer, Men

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments

Oswald Chambers
Creating, Moments, Divine

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

Oswald Chambers
Self, Perspective, Devil
"Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers".

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

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

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Oswald Chambers
Essence, Perfect, Miracle
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.60, Discovery House

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Religious, Mean
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

Oswald Chambers
Life, God, Christian
"My Utmost for His Highest".

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

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Jesus, Men, Soul
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.37, Discovery House

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

Oswald Chambers
Jesus, Giving, Matter
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.30, Discovery House

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers
Change, Faith, God
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.501, Discovery House

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

Oswald Chambers
Christian, Jesus, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.77, Discovery House

The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

Oswald Chambers
Pain, Heart, Men
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.213, Discovery House

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

Oswald Chambers
Men, Done, World

Believe steadfastly on Him and everything that challenges you will strengthen your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith up to the point of our physical death, which is the last great test. Faith is absolute trust in God-trust that could never imagine that He would forsake us.

Oswald Chambers
Believe, Challenges, Tests

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.

Oswald Chambers
Children, Father, Eye
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.59, Discovery House

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