Category: Oswald Chambers

  • THE INSPIRATION OF SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE

    My Utmost For His Highest Arise from the dead. Eph. 5:14. All initiative is not inspired. A man may say to you—‘Buck up, take your disinclination by the throat, throw it overboard, and walk out into the thing!’ That is ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes in and says, in effect,…

  • AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?

    My Utmost For His Highest None of us liveth to himself. Romans 14:7. Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in my life, everyone about me suffers. We “sit together in heavenly places.” “Whether one member…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF HEEDING

    My Utmost For His Highest What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. Matthew 10:27. At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the…

  • MUST I LISTEN?

    My Utmost For His Highest And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. Exodus 20:19. We do not consciously disobey God, we simply do not heed Him. God has given us His commands; there they are, but we do not…

  • IS YOUR HOPE IN GOD FAINT AND DYING?

    My Utmost For His Highest Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (R.V. marg.). Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in a worker’s life. If you have…

  • IS YOUR IMAGINATION OF GOD STARVED?

    My Utmost For His Highest Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26. The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens; that is, he made them begin to use…

  • ARE YOU EXHAUSTED SPIRITUALLY?

    My Utmost For His Highest Are you exhausted spiritually? The everlasting God … fainteth not, neither is weary. Isaiah 40:28. Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies.…

  • INSTANTANEOUS AND INSISTENT SANCTIFICATION

    My Utmost For His Highest Instantaneous and insistent sanctification And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. 1 Thess. 5:23–24 . When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF DEJECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest But we trusted … and beside all this, to-day is the third day … Luke 24:21. Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I…

  • ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED?

    My Utmost For His Highest I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 2 Tim. 4:6 (R.V. marg.). “I am now ready to be offered.” It is a transaction of will, not of sentiment. Tell God you are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no…