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It must be God first, God second, and God third
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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We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
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The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
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We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.
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Faith that is sure of itself is not faith faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.
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The center of salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one in that of the curious, a scarce one in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
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The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.
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There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
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I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
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God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
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