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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
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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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Never consider whether you are of use but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
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When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!
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Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
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in the will of God is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is -- My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup I delight to do His will.
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
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Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put consequently, we take root nowhere.
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