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Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

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Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.

Answers, Followed, Prayer, Prayers, Silence, Understand

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

Mind, People, Sight, Throne

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

Doe, Further, Spiritual, Spite

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

Christian, Circumstances, Engineered, Giving, Jesus

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Gives, Giving, Sky, Vision

Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am. ' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

Allow, Thought, Use

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Causes, Christianity, Devotion, Doctrine, Jesus, Work

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I. ' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

Busy, Differences, God, Mean, Opportunity, Readiness

The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

Crisis, Has Beens, Practicing, Reveal

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed. . .

Beautiful, Feet, Memories, Religious, Turn

We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person. . . . . . the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

Call, God, Jesus, Pain, People

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Voice, Silence, Damnation

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?

Faith, Inspiration, Squeezed, Using, Wine, Wonder

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

Darkness, Endure, Jesus, Joy

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

Jesus, Christ, Eternity, Time, Certain

It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

Believe, Choose, Crazy, Long

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.

Attention, Glorifying God, Grandly, Limelight, Paying

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.

Answer, Asking, Doe, God, Mean, Prayer

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

Mutiny, Sin, Dies, Against, Blatant

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i. e. , it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Bank, Issues, Job, Jobs, Prayer, Work

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