Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone. — 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
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible. — 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
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be'… — 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
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting… — 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
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful… — 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
“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
