I said to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord. Every good thing I have comes from you.’
Psalm 16:2
Are you more devoted to your idea of what Jesus wants than to Himself?
Oswald Chambers
Have you ever heard the Master say a hard word? If you have not, I question whether you have heard Him say anything.
Oswald Chambers
The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God.
Oswald Chambers
An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is deliverance in trouble, which is very different.
Oswald Chambers
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something.
Oswald Chambers
Jesus Christ did not come to teach only: He came to make me what He teaches I should be.
Oswald Chambers
The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul.
Psalm 19:7
The real fasting of the preacher is not from food, but rather from eloquence, from impressiveness and exquisite diction, from everything that might hinder the gospel of God being presented.
Oswald Chambers
You have no business to find out where God is leading, the only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Oswald Chambers
God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision…The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be.
Oswald Chambers
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
Psalm 33:9
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
Oswald Chambers
Resting in the Lord does not depend on external circumstances at all, but on your relationship to God Himself.
Oswald Chambers