If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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