and definite waiting to receive."
~ Oswald Chambers
(as quoted in David McCasland,
Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God:
The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest)
"Prayer is two-fold: definite asking
and definite waiting to receive." ~ Oswald Chambers (as quoted in David McCasland, Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest)
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"The sovereignty of God is not that everything is in an unchangeable, predetermined pattern, but it is God’s working in the midst of a broken world, filled with rebellion and disobedience. He’s moulding the clay, but our hearts must be soft and pliable. ...It is only when we come with that spirit of humility and our hearts submissive to Him, that God moulds us into something that seems best to Him."
~ Charles Price, "Living in the Will of God," part 4, "Re-Working the Clay" "If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything — it is a delight."
~ Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest, January 11) This puts the Lord's statement "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15) in perspective. If we look at His statement just as a command, we miss something sweet, deep, and absolutely central to the Christian life. "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" is also an observation. If we love Him desperately, intimately, exclusively, we will begin to long to be completely obedient to Him. This love and this longing are the Holy Spirit's work in us, both preparing our hearts for our Bridegroom and giving Him the freedom to work out His magnificent will through us. The longing produced by the Spirit is to be obedient to Christ, not to a set of principles. We can never carve out a path of obedience based on what we understand, because His thoughts are immeasurably higher than ours. The Christian life is Christ's life, flowing through us. The only way Christ's life can flow freely is if we love Him with abandon: taking time for an agenda-less spiritual tryst with Him every day; living in praise, obedience, prayer, and trust. Seeking Him, not seeking a stance to take before the world. The stance IS Christ. He Himself is what He wants to reveal to the world through our lives, because He alone can heal its broken heart. "I have learned to kiss the wave that strikes me against the Rock of Ages."
~ Charles H. Spurgeon Excerpt from a 1909 letter from Oswald Chambers to his friend David Lambert:
My dear Bro. Lambert, Praise God for your report that the Devil is paying attention to you -- so long as he keeps firing at us you may depend he thinks that we are worth watching. My hearty greetings to your wife and bairns. ... Yours, Oswald Chambers From Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest by David McCasland |
All thy sins were laid upon Him, Jesus bore them on the tree;
God, who knew them, laid them on Him, and, believing, thou art free. Joseph Denham Smith (c. 1817-1889) Praise reflection archives
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...take root downward and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings 19:30 |