The Cross in actual history is the point where the real Presence of God enters human history; and the point where the real Presence of God enters human life is the moment of absolute surrender, not of religious sentiment. The first step to sacramental discipleship is the crowning of Jesus as Lord.
– Oswald Chambers –
We are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, not by struggle and effort, but by the impartation of that which is perfect.
– Oswald Chambers –
The only lover of the Lord Jesus is the Holy Ghost, and He sheds abroad the very love of God in our hearts. Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Jesus, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
“O God, bathe us in Your humility.”
– Oswald Chambers –
“O my God, I lie in Thy fire burning and purifying – so much dross I seem to discover today, so little of Thy sweet and lovely grace in dealing with others’ faults. Lord, forgive me.”
– Oswald Chambers –
from Knocking at God’s Door, March 8
Beware of reasoning about God’s Word. Obey it.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Disciples Indeed
We have to learn to rely on the Holy Spirit because He alone gives the Word of God life. All our efforts to pump up faith in the Word of God is without quickening, without illumination. You reason to yourself and say, “Now God says this and I am going to believe it,” and you believe it, and re-believe it, and re-re-believe it, and nothing happens, simply because the vital power that makes the words living is not there.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Biblical Ethics
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
– Oswald Chambers –
from So I Send You
“Abide in Me” (John 15.4). Think of the things that take you out of abiding in Christ – “Yes, Lord, just a minute, I have got this to do; Yes, I will abide when once this is finished; when this week is over, it will be all right, I will abide then.” Get a move on; begin to abide now. In the initial stages it is a continual effort until it becomes so much the law of life that you abide in Him unconsciously. Determine to abide in Jesus wherever you are placed.
– Oswald Chambers –
from My Utmost for His Highest, June 14