Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
Oswald ChambersWe always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
Oswald ChambersNo healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
Oswald ChambersIf we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.
Oswald ChambersTo be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
Oswald Chambers