Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us go.

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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

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The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

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If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

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Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

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Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

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Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

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We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

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Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

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Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

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Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

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Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

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Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.

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The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

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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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Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.

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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

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Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

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When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic.
We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

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Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

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If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.

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The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

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