Oswald Chambers Quotes
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So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
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Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
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Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.
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One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.
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A river reaches places its source never knows.
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When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
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One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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We are here for God's designs, not for our own.
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Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
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Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
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We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
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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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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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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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Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.
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We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
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We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.
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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.
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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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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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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.