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 mean mind
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
forgiveness miracle grace
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
running effort looks
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
use
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
suffering world midst
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
son goal use
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilitie s on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
character way crooks
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
mistake mean self
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
jesus son destiny
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
wine broken bread
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
doe satan possibility
Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
giving succeed holy
There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.
jesus devotion easier
The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.
prayer secret impossible
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer