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
abiding
Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.
littles needs world
What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.
events answers problem
The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
christian difficult-questions asking
One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, 'What do you expect to do?' You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......Hav e you been asking what God is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do. He reveals to you who he is.
jesus abandon disciple
The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon
private-life
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.
letting-go fruit doe
Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
firsts god-first thirds
It must be God first, God second, and God third
shoes perspective mind
Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective
block order giving
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede
giving treasure poverty
Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
prayer mean mind
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
forgiveness miracle grace
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
use
Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.