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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

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Jesus, Reality, Redemption
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.68, Discovery House

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

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Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying
Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

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Spiritual, Believe, Character
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.74, Discovery House

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

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Blessing, People, Vision
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.513, Discovery House

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

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God, Attitude, Adversity
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.101, Discovery House

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

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Men, Sin, He Man
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.79, Discovery House

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

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Light, Important, Going Away
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

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Spiritual, World, Spiritual Life
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.510, Discovery House

The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.

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Jesus, Cost, Reason
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.205, Discovery House

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

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Two, Worship, Difficult
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.177, Discovery House

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

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Gratitude, Sin, Fountain
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.669, Discovery House

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

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Giving, Way, Use
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Approved Unto God / Facing Reality”, p.36, Discovery House

Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.

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Adventure, Opportunity, Offering
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.321, Discovery House

There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

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Jesus, Differences, Principles
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.386, Discovery House

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

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Jesus, Soul, Doctrine
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.225, Discovery House

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

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Sorrow, Amount, Shallowness
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.363, Discovery House

We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not...What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.

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Ideas, Goal, Purpose

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

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Christian Inspirational, Done, Earth
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.185, Discovery House

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

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Attitude, People, Perspective
Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

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Doe, Forget, Christianity
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.61, Discovery House

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

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Spiritual, Doe, Spite
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.57, Discovery House

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Oswald Chambers
Sin, Easy
Oswald Chambers (2015). “God's Workmanship”, p.121, Discovery House

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

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Death, God, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.52, Discovery House

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

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Common Sense, Temptation, Ghost

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

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Prayer, Men, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

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