Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
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We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
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God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.
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If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
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Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.
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A river reaches places its source never knows.
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We are here for God's designs, not for our own.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.