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
prayer preparation church
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
satisfaction our-lives seeking
Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.
battle used
We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
jesus archer sight
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
giving next tomorrow
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
teaching character thinking
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
weakness
An unguarded strength is a double weakness.
cost salvation
Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
morning prayer today
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
devotion filled overflow
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
prayer men giving
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
giving justice world
Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
attitude devil matter
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
disappointment temptation suffering
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.