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
reality gone praying
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
believe trust-in-god easier
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.
inspirational determination spring
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
men sin natural
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
men faith-in-god midst
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
real temptation vision
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
real feet tests
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
inspirational prayer ideas
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
inspirational god faith
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
inspirational lord discipleship
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
mean differences littles
Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference
men ideas iron
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.
inspirational life business
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
light fading-light fading
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.