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 CHAMBERSThe root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
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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God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
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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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The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
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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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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
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Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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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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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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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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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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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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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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