Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
OSWALD CHAMBERSIf 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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We pray when there’s nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit
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It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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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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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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I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
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God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
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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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