Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
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God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
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The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
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Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
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Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
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Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
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If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work. 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.
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The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.