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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
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Aiberdeen
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