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Oswald Chambers - Christian Perfection First Voice — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be that God is producing specimens of holiness to put in His museum. The thing that tells for God is not your relevant consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your real vital relation to Jesus Christ, and your abandonment to Him whether you are well or ill. Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. In the New Testament, “world” means the system of things which has been built on God’s earth, the system of religion or of society or of civilisation that never takes Jesus Christ into account. Oswald Chambers: The Law And The Gospel First Voice — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The moral law never alters, either for the noblest or for the weakest, it is eternally and abidingly the same. The moral law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak, it does not palliate our shortcomings, it remains absolute for all time and eternity. Conviction of sin always brings a fearful binding sense of the law, it makes a man hopeless - "sold under sin." I, a guilty sinner, can never get right with God, it is impossible. There is only one way in which I can get right with God, and that is by the Death of Jesus Christ. Amazing Grace...why must I suffer? Blog Administrator — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:35:00 -0500 Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, - in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases - and there are millions in America today - find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence "What It All Means," Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations. The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the "why" questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer. But despite this, - or because of it, - God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator." Oswald Chambers: By The Grace Of God I Am What I Am First Voice — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. The deploring of our own incompetence is a slander against God for having overlooked us. Get into the habit of examining in the sight of God the things that sound humble before men, and you will be amazed at how staggeringly impertinent they are. There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all costs, and God will fulfil His purpose through your life. One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life. Oswald Chambers:The Absoluteness Of JESUS CHRIST First Voice — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. “What I tell you in darkness”— watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there, keep your mouth shut. When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.” Jesus said, "When He the Spirit of truth is come . . . He shall glorify Me." When I commit myself to the revelation made in the New Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit Who begins to interpret to me what Jesus did and does in me subjectively all that Jesus Christ did for me objectively. The pietistic movements of today have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing that needs the Death of Jesus Christ; all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. Oswald Chambers: The Bounty Of The Destitute First Voice — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation which it brings is not palatable. We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God; we must either receive it as a gift or do without it. He can do nothing for us if we think we are sufficient of ourselves, we have to enter into His Kingdom through the door of destitution. Oswald Chambers: The Spirit of Truth First Voice — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The Spirit of truth Who lives in me will reveal that which is false, deceitful and counterfeit. The Spirit of God has spoiled the sin of a great many, yet there is no emancipation, no fullness in their lives. The kind of religious life we see abroad to-day is entirely different from the robust holiness of the life of Jesus Christ. "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil." We are to be in the world but not of it; to be disconnected fundamentally, not externally. Oswald Chambers: His Birth And Our New Birth First Voice — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:18:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. Have I allowed my personal human life to become a "Bethlehem" for the Son of God? I cannot enter into the realm of the Kingdom of God unless I am born from above by a birth totally unlike natural birth. "Ye must be born again." This is not a command, it is a foundation fact. The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me. Immediately Christ is formed in me, His nature begins to work through me. Oswald Chambers - The Concentration Of Spiritual Energy First Voice — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:00:00 -0600 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. If you want to know the energy of God (i.e., the resurrection life of Jesus) in your mortal flesh, you must brood on the tragedy of God. Cut yourself off from prying personal interest in your own spiritual symptoms and consider bare-spirited the tragedy of God, and instantly the energy of God will be in you. Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest First Voice — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:00:00 -0600 Prayer is not just an exercise routine God has us on; it’s our business, our only business. Prayer is our holy occupation. Your rational friends come and say - Don't be a fool, we knew when you talked about this spiritual awakening, that it was a passing impulse, you can't keep up the strain, God does not expect you to. And you say – 'Well, I suppose I was expecting too much.’ But, it means that reliance on God has gone and reliance on worldly opinion has come in.

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Oswald Chambers - Christian Perfection

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Oswald Chambers:The Absoluteness Of JESUS CHRIST

Oswald Chambers: The Bounty Of The Destitute

Oswald Chambers: The Spirit of Truth

Oswald Chambers: His Birth And Our New Birth

Oswald Chambers - The Concentration Of Spiritual Energy

Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest

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