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
June 13, 2012
“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
June 12, 2012
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
– Oswald Chambers –
from Our Brilliant Heritage
June 11, 2012
I am convinced that what is needed in spiritual matters is reckless abandonment to the Lord Jesus Christ, reckless and uncalculating abandonment, with no reserve anywhere about it; not sad, you cannot be sad if you are abandoned absolutely.
– Oswald Chambers –
May 21, 2012
Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God.
– Oswald Chambers –
April 12, 2012
The words of the Lord hurt and offend until there is nothing left to be hurt or offended. Jesus has no tenderness whatsoever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a person in his service to God. If the Spirit of God brings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.
– Oswald Chambers –
March 20, 2012
All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ’s demands.
– Oswald Chambers –
January 9, 2012
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!
– Oswald J. Smith –
December 31, 2011
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God… To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.
– Oswald J. Smith –