Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chamberswas an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1874
character trying arguing
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
prayer real soul
The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
years modern lord
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.
heart painful-experiences cry
Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
real sea solitude
We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.
temptation suffering
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
voice silence damnation
To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!
knows
Begin to know Him now, and finish never
needs ready persons
A ready person never needs to get ready.
mean being-disappointed disappointed
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.
limits world way
The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.
jesus father hands
In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
father heart giving
in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
earthquakes stubbornness come-up
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.