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We are here for God's designs, not for our own

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
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Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
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Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.
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Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.
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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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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. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
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God never fits His word to suit me He fits me to suit His word.
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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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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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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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Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
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The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
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