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
christian use word-of-god
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
jesus trust-no-one sight
Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
christian jesus men
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
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.
christian giving-up rights
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
spiritual hands waiting
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
jesus reality redemption
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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.
jesus noble remember
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
men made reach-out
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
blessing
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
jesus pain people
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
challenges growth discouragement
If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
jesus prayer suffering
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.