1. “God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.” – Oswald Chambers
2. “The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.” – Oswald Chambers
3. “To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!” – Oswald Chambers
4. “The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.” – Oswald Chambers
5. “When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.” – Oswald Chambers
6. “God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.” – Oswald Chambers
7. “God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.” – Oswald Chambers
8. “When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.” – Oswald Chambers
9. “With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.” – Oswald Chambers
10. “The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.” – Oswald Chambers
11. “Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him…” – Oswald Chambers
12. “To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us.” Oswald Chambers” – Oswald Chambers
13. “It is easy for us to tarnish God’s character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.” – Oswald Chambers
14. “When you fear God you fear nothing else!” – Oswald Chambers
15. “A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.” – Oswald Chambers
16. “Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.” – Oswald Chambers
17. “The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.” – Oswald Chambers
18. “We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.” – Oswald Chambers
19. “Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!” – Oswald Chambers
20. “Continue to persevere spiritually.” – Oswald Chambers
21. “Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.” – Oswald Chambers
22. “Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.” – Oswald Chambers
23. “Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.” – Oswald Chambers
24. “The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.” – Oswald Chambers
25. “The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.” – Oswald Chambers
26. “Have I been persecuting Jesus by an eager determination to serve Him in my own way?” – Oswald Chambers
27. “One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.” – Oswald Chambers
28. “When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.” – Oswald Chambers
29. “It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.” – Oswald Chambers
30. “If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood–darkness is the time to listen.” – Oswald Chambers
31. “The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.” – Oswald Chambers
32. “Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.” – Oswald Chambers
33. “God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticise, but that we may intercede.” – Oswald Chambers
34. “Never run away with the idea that it doesn’t matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.” – Oswald Chambers
35. “We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.” – Oswald Chambers
36. “God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.” – Oswald Chambers
37. “When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.” – Oswald Chambers
38. “I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine.” – Oswald Chambers
39. “My worth to God in public is what I am in private.” – Oswald Chambers
40. “The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.” – Oswald Chambers
41. “Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.” – Oswald Chambers
42. “The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.” – Oswald Chambers
43. “Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.” – Oswald Chambers
44. “Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.” – Oswald Chambers
45. “We think we understand another person’s struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.” – Oswald Chambers
46. “The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.” – Oswald Chambers
47. “Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1–17.” – Oswald Chambers
48. “Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.” – Oswald Chambers
49. “It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.” – Oswald Chambers
50. “Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God’s word fit in?” – Oswald Chambers
51. “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” – this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.” – Oswald Chambers
52. “We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.” – Oswald Chambers
53. “If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.” – Oswald Chambers
54. “Never allow the thought, ‘I am of no use where I am.’ You are certainly of no use where you’re not.” – Oswald Chambers
55. “Begin to know Him now, and finish never.” – Oswald Chambers
56. “Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.” – Oswald Chambers
57. “Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.” – Oswald Chambers
58. “Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ…” – Oswald Chambers
59. “Trust yourself in God’s hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. ‘Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.’” – Oswald Chambers
60. “We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.” – Oswald Chambers
61. “Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.” – Oswald Chambers
62. “Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.” – Oswald Chambers
63. “It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.” – Oswald Chambers
64. “No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.” – Oswald Chambers
65. “Prayer is an effort of will.” – Oswald Chambers
66. “So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.” – Oswald Chambers
67. “We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.” – Oswald Chambers
68. “No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.” – Oswald Chambers
69. “God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.” – Oswald Chambers
70. “ The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.” – Oswald Chambers
71. “Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.” – Oswald Chambers
72. “Our work begins where God’s grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.” – Oswald Chambers
73. “Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.” – Oswald Chambers
74. “The love of God is not created- it is His nature.” – Oswald Chambers
75. “Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.” – Oswald Chambers
76. “Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.” – Oswald Chambers
77. “Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don’t deify common sense.” – Oswald Chambers
78. “Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.” – Oswald Chambers
79. “When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us.” – Oswald Chambers
80. “The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God’s holiness, God’s purpose, God’s ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.” – Oswald Chambers
81. “Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.” – Oswald Chambers
82. “When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.” – Oswald Chambers
83. “When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.” – Oswald Chambers
84. “There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender.” – Oswald Chambers
85. “Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order.” – Oswald Chambers
86. “Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.” – Oswald Chambers
87. “You have to be the nourishment for other people’s souls until they learn to feed on God.” Oswald Chambers” – Oswald Chambers
88. “Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.” – Oswald Chambers
89. “Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.” – Oswald Chambers
90. “The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone” – Oswald Chambers
91. “Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald Chambers
92. “The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.” – Oswald Chambers
93. “We are not meant to be seen as God’s perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.” – Oswald Chambers
94. “Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.” – Oswald Chambers
95. “God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.” – Oswald Chambers
96. “Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.” – Oswald Chambers
97. “The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.” – Oswald Chambers
98. “We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.” – Oswald Chambers
99. “Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.” – Oswald Chambers
100. “Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.” – Oswald Chambers
101. “If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.” – Oswald Chambers
102. “Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.” – Oswald Chambers
103. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.” – Oswald Chambers
104. “Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.” – Oswald Chambers
105. “He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.” – Oswald Chambers
106. “To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.” – Oswald Chambers
107. “You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.” – Oswald Chambers
108. “Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?” – Oswald Chambers
109. “Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?” – Oswald Chambers
110. “Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.” – Oswald Chambers
111. “It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.” – Oswald Chambers
112. “Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.” – Oswald Chambers
113. “Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.” – Oswald Chambers
114. “The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.” – Oswald Chambers
115. “We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.” – Oswald Chambers
116. “God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.” – Oswald Chambers
117. “Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.” – Oswald Chambers
118. “Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.” – Oswald Chambers
119. “God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.” – Oswald Chambers
120. “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
121. “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.” – Oswald Chambers
122. “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
123. “Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.” – Oswald Chambers
124. “The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain” – Oswald Chambers
125. “All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.” – Oswald Chambers
126. “Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.” – Oswald Chambers
127. “To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.” – Oswald Chambers
128. “Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.” – Oswald Chambers
129. “The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God’s decision.” – Oswald Chambers
130. “Jesus said, “Ask, and it will be given to you” (Matthew 7:7). But God cannot give until a man asks. It is not that He wants to withhold something from us, but that is the plan He has established for the way of redemption.” – Oswald Chambers
131. “Trust God, and do the next thing.” – Oswald Chambers
132. “Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.” – Oswald Chambers
133. “So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.” – Oswald Chambers
134. “Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.” – Oswald Chambers
135. “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.” – Oswald Chambers
136. “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
137. “When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.” – Oswald Chambers
138. “Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.” – Oswald Chambers
139. “If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.” – Oswald Chambers
140. “Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.” – Oswald Chambers
141. “God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.” – Oswald Chambers
142. “Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.” – Oswald Chambers
143. “Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.” – Oswald Chambers
144. “The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.” – Oswald Chambers
145. “If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.” – Oswald Chambers
146. “The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.” – Oswald Chambers
147. “God does not give us overcoming life: He gives us life as we overcome. The strain is the strength. If there is no strain, there is no strength.” – Oswald Chambers
148. “ It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.” – Oswald Chambers
149. “There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.” – Oswald Chambers
150. “Beware of anything that would tarnish God’s mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.” – Oswald Chambers
151. “No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.” – Oswald Chambers
152. “We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.” – Oswald Chambers
153. “When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, ‘I can’t.’” – Oswald Chambers
154. “Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey It.” – Oswald Chambers
155. “The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.” – Oswald Chambers
156. “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” – Oswald Chambers
157. “The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.” – Oswald Chambers
158. “Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.” – Oswald Chambers
159. “There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.” – Oswald Chambers