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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
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Aiberdeen
Religious
Christian
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Something
Never
Baptists
Beware
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Wants

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