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It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.
Oswald Chambers
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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
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Aiberdeen
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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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.
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The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
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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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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
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Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
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