Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.
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If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.
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The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.