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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Exhaustion
Exhausted
Impossible
Trying
Work
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