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
prayer useless essentials
Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
jesus consistency christianity
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
faith christian prayer
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
ears language speak
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
lasts firsts spirit
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
jesus principles way
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.
ideas want sanctification
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
asking doe asking-god
Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
loyalty jesus jesus-christ
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ...
inspiration simple everyday-things
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
prayer track answers
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
jesus everyday-things deities
One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.
grace doe good-things
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
jesus slavery break
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.