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

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

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

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

We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

Oswald Chambers
Beautiful, Inspiration, Sunrise
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.568, 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

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

Oswald Chambers
Inspiration, Simple, Everyday Things
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.114, Discovery House

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Oswald Chambers
Mistake, Inspiration, Panic
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.324, Discovery House

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Inspiration, Secret

Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?

Oswald Chambers
Faith, Jesus, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.195, Discovery House

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us.... Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don't lose heart in the process.

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

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers
Christian, Lying, Inspiration
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.348, Discovery House

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

Oswald Chambers
Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

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