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To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
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Theologian
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Aiberdeen
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Heart
Discernment
Intellectual
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States

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