The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand. Oswald Chambers More Quotes by Oswald Chambers More Quotes From Oswald Chambers When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs. Oswald Chambers visioncostgiving An unguarded strength is a double weakness. Oswald Chambers weakness We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us. Oswald Chambers theoryusepeople The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life. Oswald Chambers redemptionmiraclenew-life To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy. Oswald Chambers obsessedassaultenemy Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much. Oswald Chambers salvationcost Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death. Oswald Chambers costwantjesus We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask. Oswald Chambers prayeraskingmean As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises. Oswald Chambers abandonsurprisetasks It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us. Oswald Chambers glorifying-godlimelightattention There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. Oswald Chambers kickingreligiousreligion If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account. Oswald Chambers blockliarsjesus We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. Oswald Chambers teachspheres At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Oswald Chambers giving-uplyingjesus Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone. Oswald Chambers aspectsociallord Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God. Oswald Chambers exampletodayjesus We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Oswald Chambers prayermenson When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. Oswald Chambers spiritualheartmen The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. Oswald Chambers doctrinesouljesus We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there. Oswald Chambers usewaitingfirsts
