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
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
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
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
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
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him.… — 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
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 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
Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent… — 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
Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of… — 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
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter. — 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
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to… — 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
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure. — 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
“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 Image
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
