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
littles needs world
What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.
real character work-out
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
events answers problem
The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
christian difficult-questions asking
One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God 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.
jesus abandon disciple
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
private-life
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.
letting-go fruit doe
Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
reality miracle his-love
But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.
firsts god-first thirds
It must be God first, God second, and God third
shoes perspective mind
Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective
block order giving
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede
giving treasure poverty
Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
men hands kingdoms
Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.
The nature of faith is that it must be tried.