Oswald Chambers Quotes
It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.
The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.
Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.
The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.
We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper.
Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth."
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
