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
spirit ifs
God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
oneness fellowship depth
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
causes concentrating
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him...
prayer exercise drawing
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
solitude world noise
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
grace favors needed
Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
spiritual believe character
Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
mean long doe
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
christian prayer thinking
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
men thinking doubt
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
remember
Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
rooms states constant
Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
sin easy
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
prayer acceptance quality
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.