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
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.
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.