Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can’t see… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
