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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.Oswald Chambers
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We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.Oswald Chambers
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... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.Oswald Chambers
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.Oswald Chambers
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Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature-- He brings them down from above.Oswald Chambers
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A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.Oswald Chambers
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.Oswald Chambers
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Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.Oswald Chambers
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It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.Oswald Chambers
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Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.Oswald Chambers
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.Oswald Chambers
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The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.Oswald Chambers
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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.Oswald Chambers
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When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.Oswald Chambers
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He comes where He commands us to leave.Oswald Chambers
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.Oswald Chambers
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In Him we have . the forgiveness of sins . –Ephesians 1:7Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy. The only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is through the Cross of Christ. There is no other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to God that made all of this ours. Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God, this price had to be paid. Never accept a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. The revealed truth of God is that without the atonement He cannot forgive– He would contradict His nature if He did. The only way we can be forgiven is by being brought back to God through the atonement of the Cross. God’s forgiveness is possible only in the supernatural realm. Compared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is small. Sanctification is simply the wonderful expression or evidence of the forgiveness of sins in a human life. But the thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin. Paul never got away from this. Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.Oswald Chambers
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Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.Oswald Chambers
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love, " but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way– not in a human way that ignores God. .Oswald Chambers
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You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.Oswald Chambers
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Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.Oswald Chambers
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Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.Oswald Chambers
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God did not direct His call to Isaiah– Isaiah overheard God saying, ".. . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.Oswald Chambers
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...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.Oswald Chambers
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Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.Oswald Chambers
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Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus– not love for Jesus Himself.Oswald Chambers
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If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.Oswald Chambers
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God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.Oswald Chambers
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The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.Oswald Chambers
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We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.Oswald Chambers
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Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.Oswald Chambers
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One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.Oswald Chambers
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.Oswald Chambers
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We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.Oswald Chambers
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The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.Oswald Chambers
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You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.Oswald Chambers
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.Oswald Chambers
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It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.Oswald Chambers
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Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?Oswald Chambers
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Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.Oswald Chambers
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There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone... Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.Oswald Chambers
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The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.Oswald Chambers
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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.Oswald Chambers
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He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...Oswald Chambers
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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.Oswald Chambers
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The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.Oswald Chambers
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Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.Oswald Chambers
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The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.Oswald Chambers
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When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.Oswald Chambers
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...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.Oswald Chambers