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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

Oswald Chambers
God, Christian, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.138, Discovery House

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

Oswald Chambers
Life, God, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Oswald Chambers
Heartbreak, God, Disappointment
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.

Oswald Chambers
Inspirational, God, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.58, Discovery House

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Oswald Chambers
Relationship, God, Christian
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.250, 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

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

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

Oswald Chambers
Life, God, Christian
"My Utmost for His Highest".

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

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

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

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

Oswald Chambers
God, Christian, Limits
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.309, 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

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

Oswald Chambers
God, Patience, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, 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

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers
God, Attitude, Adversity
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.101, Discovery House

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Oswald Chambers
Death, God, Men
Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.52, 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

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

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

Oswald Chambers
God, Christian, Religious
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.282, Discovery House

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