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
glorifying-god attention limelight
It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.
faith wings fainting
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
jesus abandoned ends
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
doe forget christianity
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
perseverance encouragement endurance
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
attitude devil matter
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
christian lying inspiration
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
soul majority changed
Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.
prayer character way
Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
jesus character and-love
Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.
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?
letting-go perseverance believe
Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.
jesus want christ
When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
christian-inspirational earth done
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.