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 praying ends
We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
mean mind praying
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
reality gone praying
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
men praying lord
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
prayer needs praying
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
prayer evidence praying-to-god
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
attitude horizon praying
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
want praying short-prayer
We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
prayer praying
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
want way responsible
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
believe order design
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.
absurd certain dealt destroy face ignoring increase mind pray second seen
Certain things can only be dealt with by ignoring them; if you face them you increase their power. It is absurd to say, Pray about them; when once a thing is seen to be wrong, don't pray about it, it fixes the mind on it; never for a second brood on it, destroy it by neglect.
hurt may
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
not-good-enough enemy faith-in-god
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.