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.
OSWALD CHAMBERSGod 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.
More Oswald Chambers Quotes
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We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.
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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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Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
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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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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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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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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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Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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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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Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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To say that ‘prayer changes things’ is not as close to the truth as saying, ‘prayer changes me and then I change things.’ God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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