Oswald Chambers Quotes

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

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• Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

  

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