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
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.
christian jesus doctrine
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
details life-is our-lives
Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
memories son soul
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
prayer evidence praying-to-god
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
independence sin deliberate
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
limits impossible allowing
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
prayer may knowing-god
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
real ideas needs
If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.
real reading air
The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
men joy choices
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
christian-inspirational earth done
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.