God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is… — 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
When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others. — 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
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
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that if we have received His fullness, 'rivers of living… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical… — 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
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if… — 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