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 preparation church
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
religious religion kicking
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
spiritual jesus mean
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
joy soul forgotten
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
jesus funeral independence
he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence
religious consistency faithful
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.
dark giving messages
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.
waiting life-is waiting-on-god
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
strong jesus men
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
christian giving-up rights
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
prayer son men
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
jesus mean christ
To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.
jesus men gone
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
prayer order perfect
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.