Oswald Chambers

The main idea in the region of religion is'Your eyes upon God, not on men. 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, shu…

We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life'those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life, and that…

The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insis…

God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose'that He may be able to say, 'This is My man, and this is My woman.' We have to be in…

The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Chr…

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him''this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

We act like pagans in a crisis - only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

God does not give us overcoming life' He gives us life as we overcome.

Faithfulness to Jesus means that I must step out even when and where I can't see anything (see Matthew 14: 29). But faithfulness to my own ideas means that I first clear the way mentally. Faith, however, is not intellect…

God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfect…

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can't see the way ahead.

allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes hav…

The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the h…

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, 'I have sinned.' The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistake…

God's mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace. He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural peace, 'as the world gives,' but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek…

the underlying foundation of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.

God showed to man that compliance with His dictates would ever mean eternal bliss and joy unspeakable and life and knowledge forevermore, but that ceasing to comply would mean loss of life with God and eternal death. Tha…

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

The love of God and the wrath of God are obverse sides of the same thing, like two sides of a coin. The wrath of God is as positive as His love. God cannot be in agreement with sin. When a man is severed from God, the ba…

How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying

Wait for the fruit to manifest itself and do not be guided by your own fancy.

To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of al pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor hones…

If you are up against the question of relinquishing, go through the crisis, relinquish al , and God wil make you fit for al that He requires of you.

You are the salt of the earth.' Some modern teachers seem to think our Lord said, You are the sugar of the earth, meaning that gentleness and winsomeness without curativeness is the ideal of the Christian. Our Lord's ill…

How long is it going to take God to free us from the unhealthy habit of thinking only about ourselves? We must get to the point of being sick to death of ourselves, until there is no longer any surprise at anything God m…

Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all 'supposing' on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you wi…

The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude. 'Many are called, but few a…

The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him.

The greatest characteristic a Christian can exhibit is this completely unveiled openness before God, which allows that person's life to become a mirror for others. When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beh…

We look for visions from heaven and for earthshaking events to see God's power. Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events an…

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows cease…

Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1'17.

There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness…

The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict again…

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others.

I delight in knowing that there is something in me which must fall prostrate before God when He reveals Himself to me, and also in knowing that if I am ever to be raised up it must be by the hand of God. God can do nothi…

man may utter apparently blasphemous things against God and we say, 'How appalling'; but if we look further we find that the man is in pain, he is maddened and hurt by something. The mood he is talking in is a passing on…

None of us lives to himself . . . .' Romans 14:7 Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people? For instance, if I allow any turning away from God in my private life, everyone aro…

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties

Why doesn't God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won't abandon yourself to Him in total surrender.

The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose'to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.