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
trying helping
Never try to help God fulfill His word.
character trying arguing
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
hypocrite play trying
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
prayer waiting trying
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
trying devil thrill
Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
prayer trying answers
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
listening trying fit
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
trying way impossible
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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.
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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.
stars lasts sand
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.