The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but ‘Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.’
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 -1917)
God never forces a person’s will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being ‘united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death’ (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender–then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
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 (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 -1917)
We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1828 – 1917)
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.
Oswald Chambers (Evangelist / Teacher 1874 – 1917)
Being filled with the Spirit is simply this – having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.
Andrew Murray (South African Writer / Pastor 1828 – 1917)