Category: Oswald Chambers

  • GETTING THERE

    Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. Come ye after Me. Mark 1:17. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that…

  • GETTING THERE

    My Utmost For His Highest Where the self-interest sleeps and the real interest awakens: Master, where dwellest Thou?… Come and see.… Come with Me. John 1:39. “They abode with Him that day.” That is about all some of us ever do, then we wake up to actualities, self-interest arises and the abiding is passed. There…

  • THE NEXT BEST THING TO DO

    My Utmost ForHis Highest Seek if you have not Found. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Luke 11:9. “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask amiss, that is, you ask from a desire for self-realization. The more you realize yourself the…

  • THE NEXT THING TO DO

    My Utmost For His Highest Ask if you have not Received. For everyone that asketh receiveth. Luke 11:10. There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer, but not until we are at the extreme limit will we ask. A sense of unreality makes us ask. Have…

  • DON’T SLACK OFF

    My Utmost For His Highest Whatever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do. John 14:13. Am I fulfilling this ministry of the interior? There is no snare, or any danger of infatuation or pride in intercession, it is a hidden ministry that brings forth fruit whereby the Father is glorified. Am I…

  • WORK OUT WHAT GOD WORKS IN

    My Utmost For His Highest Work out your own salvation. Phil. 2:12–13 . Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a disposition which renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When the Lord is presented to the conscience, the first thing conscience does is to rouse…

  • GOD’S SAY-SO

    My Utmost For His Highest He hath said … so that we may boldly say … Hebrews 13:5–6 . My say-so is to be built on God’s say-so. God says—“I will never leave thee,” then I can with good courage say—“The Lord is my helper, I will not fear”—I will not be haunted by apprehension.…

  • THE NEVER-FAILING GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13:5. What line does my thought take? Does it turn to what God says or to what I fear? Am I learning to say not what God says, but to say something after I have heard what…

  • THE SECRET OF THE LORD

    My Utmost For His Highest The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him. Psalm 25:14. What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is…

  • WHAT ARE YOU HAUNTED BY

    My Utmost For His Highest What man is he that feareth the Lord? Psalm 25:12. What are you haunted by? You will say—‘By nothing,’ but we are all haunted by something, generally by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our experience. The Psalmist says we are to be haunted by God. The abiding consciousness…