Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.
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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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Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.
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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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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.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
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The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
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We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.
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The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'
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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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Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.
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No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.
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I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.
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Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
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To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.
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When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.