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
christian jesus secret
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
believe light confidence-in-god
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
law perception moral
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
jesus produce commonplace
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.
sight people mind
When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
book levels should
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
inspired our-relationship proof
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
believe character men
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.
prayer silence grace
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
jesus soul connections
It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.
buckets want connections
Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?
sweet grace cups
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
prayer practice drawing
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
knowing dishonor slander
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.