Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

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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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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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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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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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The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

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Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

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The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

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It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

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There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

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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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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him...

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We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

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Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.

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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God's wisdom and His supernatural equipment.

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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

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It is not repentance that saves me;
repentance is the sign that I realize what God has done in Christ Jesus.

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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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We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

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It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.

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Speak, Lord ; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, Speak, Lord.

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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His
call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To
serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the
call of God.

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The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His Love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but to "to reveal His Son in me

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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put;
consequently, we take root nowhere.

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Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

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