Oswald Chambers

I can get my head around that.

What are the two sins? First, and you gotta get that thing right, number one, "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water." Even though you may not realize you're doing it, there's a part of you that says somehow, "God, you're not g- uh, enough." Oswald Chambers did put it this way, "I sin when I have the suspicion that God is not enough." Part two, sin number two.

They don't just say, "God, you're not enough."

Mm-hmm.

That is why I said the Spirit will receive from Me what He will make known to you." Today's article, titled The Holy Spirit's Work, was written by Amy Boucher Pye.

When Oswald Chambers, author of My Utmost for His Highest, ran a small Bible college, he learned that a couple who worked there were stealing supplies.

Although at times it's right to address wrongdoing, Oswald decided in this instance not to confront them, instead asking God to bring the matter to their hearts and minds.

After several weeks, they came clean, expressing regret.

I love that you asked this because that, you know, Scripture says when you compare, you're just not wise.

And I think it was Oswald Chambers who said, let God be as original with others as he is with you.

I love that he speaks to you through that emotion because Jesus led with compassion.

That's what moved him when he saw the crowds.

No, never thought of it.

As Os- Oswald Chambers said, you know, "Prayer doesn't change my circumstances, it changes me." But I'm saying-

Oh, I just thought of another marriage pet peeve.

Can I throw this one in?

Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting on Elijah to call to him." One more.

Oswald Chambers: "Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven.

The Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on Earth.

And we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men." So convicting.

[sniffs] I grew up Methodist, so I gotta give a shout-out to my Methodist boy here.

He says, "Talking to men for God is a great thing." You got it? Here, like evangelizing is a great thing.

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is a greater still." Oswald Chambers again.

[sniffs] "The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His Word.

I just do it without him.

Oswald chambers said, Jesus is not interested in you working for him.

You want you to work with them, you know, for those of you guys who don't know.

So he's talking about John 15, John 15 is a, I am the vine.

Can I propose that today? Faith isn't about eliminating uncertainty in your life.

Perhaps it's about being certain enough that, about God that we can move despite what we know or don't know that is what it's about I um love this verse this um phrase or this quote is the word I'm looking for from Oswald Chambers I love it it's it's inspiring to read a little bit more difficult to live out but I love his perspective on this topic he says to be certain of God is to be uncertain in all of our ways I love that.

I'm believing today where that... future the the need to step out where it's been a sigh of sadness I'm believing for people in this room today you're going to have a breathless expectation for what's ahead not because you know all the details but because you know God who has all the details who knows where it's all going And so again, so inspiring to read, but let's be those that live that out.

Let our lives be marked by breathless expectation because of who God is.

I was desperately biting the dust in an effort to please God by living a consecrated life.

And this was fueled by filling journals with Bible verses and quotes from godly womanhood books, books written by Puritan authors, books by John Piper, Elizabeth Prentiss, Watchman Nee, Fenelon, Ian Thomas, Oswald Chambers, Amy Carmichael, and dozens of others.

These books were like little demigods to me, instructing me on how to appease the God I both longed for and feared.

I soaked up their teachings and fervently set out to apply their insights to every area of my life.