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
common-sense temptation ghost
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
crush wine use
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
jesus heart redemption
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
jesus determination attitude
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.
jesus faces christ
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
prayer children simple
Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
temptation suffering
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
abiding easy lifestyle
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
life-is strain ifs
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
essence perfect shining
We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.
christian mind spirit
All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.
children light darkness
If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
wine grapes has-beens
Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.
saint dependent
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.