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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
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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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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.
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Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.
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You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
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We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.
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When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.
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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.
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God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.
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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.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
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There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
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Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
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Born:
July 24, 1874
Died:
November 15, 1917
(aged 43)
Bio:
Oswald Chambers was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
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My Utmost for His Highest
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Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (1915)
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