Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

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We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

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We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

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We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God's assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

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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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Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness, it should be rather an expression of breathless expectation. 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, He packs our life with surprises all the time.

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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

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Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.

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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

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The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point—a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest—our best for His glory.

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Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

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We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.

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The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

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A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

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God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

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All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

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Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

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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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There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

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Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

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Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

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