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
spiritual sacrifice maturity
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
worry calculating without-god
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
cheer heart joy
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
prayer attitude son
Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.
spiritual doe circumstances
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
prayer order giving
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
communication hinder communication-with-god
You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
taken upset way
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
taken may hearing
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.
spiritual life-is obedience
The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.
levels satisfaction majority
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
grace soul foundation
Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
jesus men understanding
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
neglect workers time-with-god
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.