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
use
Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.
saint dependent
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
consistency conviction fetish
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.
prayer children simple
Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
prayer two waiting
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
heart rights independence
Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his
crush wine use
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
grace soul sovereign
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.
cutting evil temptation
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
jesus father watches
Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
giving-up exercise action
I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
fire people sorrow
If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
capacity behinds
Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
father men life-is
All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.