You may know all about the doctrine of sanctification, but are you running it out into the practical issues of your life? Every bit of your life physical, moral and spiritual, is to be judged by the standard of the Atonement.
– Oswald Chambers –
Oswald Chambers
April 4, 2014
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You can never measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and sanctification, remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfill God’s purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light.
– Oswald Chambers –
March 31, 2014
To be “in the will of God” is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
– Oswald Chambers –
March 22, 2014
Are you looking unto Jesus now, in the immediate matter that is pressing and receiving from His peace? If so, He will be a gracious benediction of peace in and through you. But if you try to worry it out, you obliterate Him and deserve all you get. We get disturbed because we have not been considering Him. When one confers with Jesus Christ the perplexity goes, because He has no perplexity, and our only concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out before Him, and in the face of difficulty, bereavement and sorrow, hear Him say, “Let not you heart be troubled.”
– Oswald Chambers –
March 17, 2014
God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
– Oswald Chambers –
January 3, 2014
Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered . . . If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified . . . One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
– Oswald Chambers –
November 13, 2013
To be “in the will of God” is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart … It’s motto is — “My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.”
– Oswald Chambers –
November 10, 2013
In intimate personal belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ and make a determination to be dominated by Him alone.
– Oswald Chambers –
October 18, 2013
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. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
– Oswald Chambers –