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“When once we get intimate with Jesus we are never lonely, we never need sympathy, we can pour out all the time without being pathetic…The only impression left by such a life is that of the strong calm sanity that Our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.” –Oswald Chambers –John 14:9

“He went out, not knowing whither he went.” “Have you been ‘out’ in this way?  If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing.  One of the difficulties in Christian work is the question– ‘What do you expect to do?’ You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know that God knows what He is doing.” –Oswald Chambers –Hebrews 11:8

“Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of our past lest we get into a shallow security in the present. … Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is […]

“You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.” –Oswald Chambers –John 6:66

“Every now and again, Our Lord lets us see what we would be like if it were not for Himself; it is a justification of what He said– ‘Without Me ye can do nothing.’ That is why the bedrock of Christianity is personal, passionate devotion to the Lord Jesus.” –Oswald Chambers –Galatians 6:14

“Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? … There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience–I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him.” […]

“If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be poorer all days of his life. Struggle to reexpress some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. … Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God’s truth, and you give God a chance pass it on to someone else through you. … The author who […]

“Whenever you obey God, His seal is always that of peace, the witness of an unfathomable peace, which is not natural, but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, tarry till it does or find out the reason it does not.” –Oswald Chambers –John 14:27

“It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. … I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces longing for God in other lives, not admiration for myself.” –Oswald Chambers –Philippians 3:12 –John 17:23