We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.
Oswald ChambersOur Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
Oswald ChambersThe greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald ChambersIt 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 ChambersIf sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Oswald Chambers