It is never our earnestness that brings us into touch with God, but our Lord Jesus Christ’s vitalizing death. (See Hebrews 10:19-23)
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask
It is a matter of indifference to God’s grace how abominable I am if I come to the light; but woe be to me if I refuse the light. (See John 3:19-21)
– Oswald Chambers –
A child always admires anyone with skill, and the teacher who says, “Do this and that has no influence over a child compared with the one who says, “Come and do this with me.” When a child has seen his teacher do a thing and is asked to do it, instantly the instinct of emulation is at work.
– Oswald Chambers –
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God’s truth and remain in sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
The great need for the saint is to get his brains at work on the Word of God; otherwise he will stagnate, no matter how much he may name the Name of God.
– Oswald Chambers –
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
– Oswald Chambers –
The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think to pray.
– Oswald Chambers –
Intercession does not develop the one who intercedes; it blesses the lives of those for whom he intercedes. The reason so few of us intercede is because we don’t understand this.
– Oswald Chambers –