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 answers redemption
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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.
jesus men people
People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
prayer reality men
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
sleep past opportunity
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
beautiful inspiration sunrise
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
christian strong jesus
The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.
winning missionary doe
The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
christian jesus giving
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
christian people homesick
How many people have you made homesick for God?
christian spiritual self
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
god attitude men
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
faith jesus inspiration
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
christian son use
God wants to use us as He used His own Son