Category: Oswald Chambers

  • THE MISSIONARY WATCHING

    My Utmost For His Highest Watch with Me. Matthew 26:40. “Watch with Me”—with no private point of view of your own at all, but watch entirely with Me. In the early stages we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revelation of the Bible; in…

  • HIS!

    My Utmost For His Highest Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me. John 17:6. The missionary is one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought this realization—“Ye are not your own.” To say ‘I am not my own,’ is to have reached a great point in spiritual nobility. The true nature of the life…

  • THE WATERS OF SATISFACTION SCATTERED

    My Utmost For His Highest … nevertheless he would not drink thereof but poured it out unto the Lord. 2 Samuel 23:16. What has been like water from the well of Bethlehem to you recently—love, friendship, spiritual blessing? Then at the peril of your soul, you take it to satisfy yourself. If you do, you…

  • THE SACRAMENT OF SACRIFICE

    My Utmost For His Highest He that believeth in Me, … out of him shall flow.… John 7:38. Jesus did not say—‘he that believeth in Me shall realize the blessing of the fullness of God,’ but—‘he that believeth in Me, out of him shall escape everything he receives.’ Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His…

  • DESTINY OF HOLINESS

    My Utmost For His Highest Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16 (R.V.). Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are dissipated with them; right, good, noble…

  • MY JOY … YOUR JOY

    My Utmost For His Highest That My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 15:11. What was the joy that Jesus had? It is an insult to use the word happiness in connection with Jesus Christ. The joy of Jesus was the absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice of Himself to…

  • AM I CONVINCED BY CHRIST?

    My Utmost For His Highest Notwithstanding in this rejoice not …, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Luke 10:19, 20. Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to…

  • SUBLIME INTIMACY

    My Utmost For His Highest Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? John 11:40. Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your commonsense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is…

  • WHAT’S THE GOOD OF PRAYER?

    My Utmost For His Highest Lord, teach us to pray. Luke 11:1. It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of…

  • ARE YOU EVER DISTURBED?

    My Utmost For His Highest Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you. John 14:27. There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace,…