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
sea air earth
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
prayer dawn foolish
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
doe forget christianity
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
valleys stuff ordinary
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
prayer doe fit
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
next trust-in-god
Trust God, and do the next thing.
mean reality sincerity
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
training weapons missionary
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
temptation cost earth
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
chaos ends walks
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
prayer spirit holy
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
christian grief heartless
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
dream trust-in-god
Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
built
We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.