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.
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God. . . . His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.
No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST
God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.