Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.
God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
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. '
Have you been asking God what He 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.
Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. . . If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force. . . Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.
Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.
God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee. '
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.