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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

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Sleep, Past, Opportunity
Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

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Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.12, Discovery House

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

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

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

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Prayer, Order, Soul

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

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God, Patience, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

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Christian, Easter, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.91, Discovery House

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

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Reality, Miracle, Depth
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.87, Discovery House

One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Everyday Things, Deities
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.95, Discovery House

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Jesus, Intimate Relationships, Joy
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.34, Discovery House

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

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Spiritual, Cutting, Past

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

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Spiritual, Life Is, Obedience
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.266, Discovery House

God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

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Complaining, Explanation, No Complaining
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.725, Discovery House

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

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Realizing, Lord, Guides
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.243, Discovery House

Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Track

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

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Prayer, Order, Perfect
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.30, Discovery House

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

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Majority, Levels, Satisfaction
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.169, Discovery House

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

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Fear Nothing, Fear God, Fear Not
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.142, Discovery House

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

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Attitude, Devil, Matter
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.170, Discovery House

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

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

If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Irritation
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.456, Discovery House

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

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Suffering, World, Midst

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

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Christian, Prayer, Alive

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

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Jesus, Men, Understanding
Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

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Christian, Jesus, Joy
Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

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Inspirational, Life, Determination
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.381, Discovery House

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