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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers
Inspirational, Faith, Christianity
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.37, Discovery House

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Jesus, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.333, Discovery House

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Christian, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers
Inspirational, Faith, God
"Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes".

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Commitment
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Letting Go
Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Inspiration, Romance
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.229, Discovery House

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.163, Discovery House

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Real, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.473, Discovery House

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Inspiration, Wine
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.23, Discovery House

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Lying, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Religious, Mean
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers
Change, Faith, God
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.501, Discovery House

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.359, Discovery House

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Wings, Fainting
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.69, Discovery House

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, God, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.54, Discovery House

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

Oswald Chambers
Life, God, Faith
Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Oswald Chambers
Life, God, Faith
Oswald Chambers (2011). “Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus”, p.21, Discovery House

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.56, Discovery House

As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Christian, Religious
Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

Oswald Chambers
God, Faith, Confidence
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Christian, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Mean, Knowing
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.33, Discovery House

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