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
mistake inspiration panic
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
inspirational god faith
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
attitude next wonder
You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude that keeps you in perpetual wonder-you do not know what God is going to do next.
jesus real men
Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.
prayer mean asking
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
prayer needs praying
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
prayer purpose presence-of-god
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
prayer way intercession
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
prayer effort
Prayer is an effort of will.
giving worship given
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
spiritual mark certainty
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
enemy obsessed assault
To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
miracle new-life redemption
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
jesus abandoned ends
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.