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
joy reckless glad
Obey Him with glad reckless joy.
spiritual heart men
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.
god christian spirit
One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
god christian worry
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
christian jesus spirit
The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
might culture wonderful
God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
giving vision matter
When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
identity rich possession
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
reflection devotion identification
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
jesus done realizing
It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realize what God has done in Christ Jesus.
adventure opportunity offering
Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it.
jesus lying son
The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'
spiritual discipline culture
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
abiding
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.