Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
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When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
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When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.
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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
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Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
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A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.