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
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Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
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Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.
faithful our-relationship certainty
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.
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The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.