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.
Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.
The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.
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.
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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.
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
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!
Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.