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Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Choose
Compulsion
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Obey
Gone
Almighty
Lasts
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Power
Sand
Obedience
Whenever
Ascendant
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Deliberately

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