The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with… — 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
“What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself...if we realize that moment-by-moment obedience is the goal, then each moment as… — 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
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His… — 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
“There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ.… — 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
“We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant, but if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Holy Suffering "Choosing to suffer means that there must be something wrong with you, but choosing God's will - even if it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit… — 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
“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
