Tag: My Utmost For His Highest

  • HEEDFULNESS V. HYPOCRISY IN OURSELVES

    If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. 1 John 5:16. If we are not heedful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we shall become spiritual hypocrites. We see…

  • HOLINESS V HARDNESS TOWARD GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest And He … wondered that there was no intercessor. Isaiah 59:16. The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer. It sounds right to say that we pray; we read books on prayer which tell us…

  • OUR LORD’S SURPRISE VISITS

    My Utmost For His Highest Be ye therefore ready also. Luke 12:40. The great need for the Christian worker is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not easy, no matter what our experience is. The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being…

  • ISN’T THERE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING?

    Let us go into Judea. His disciples say unto Him … Goest Thou thither again? John 11:7–8 . I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to say that therefore He was mistaken in what He said. It is never right to think that my obedience to a word of God…

  • VISION BY PERSONAL CHARACTER

    My Utmost For His Highest Come up hither, and I will shew thee things. Rev. 4:1. An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say—‘Friend, go up higher.’ The golden rule…

  • VISION BY PERSONAL PURITY

    My Utmost For His Highest Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8. Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remain unsullied,…

  • THE MOST DELICATE MISSION ON EARTH

    My Utmost For His Highest The friend of the Bridegroom. John 3:29. Goodness and purity ought never to attract attention to themselves, they ought simply to be magnets to draw to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken…

  • DECREASING INTO HIS PURPOSE

    He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30. If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God’s order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that your…

  • AM I CARNALLY MINDED?

    My Utmost For His Highest Whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal? 1 Cor. 3:3. No natural man knows anything about carnality. The flesh lusting against the Spirit that came in at regeneration, and the Spirit lusting against the flesh, produces carnality. “Walk in the Spirit,” says Paul, “and ye…

  • THE BURNING HEART

    My Utmost For His Highest Did not our heart burn within us? Luke 24:32. We need to learn this secret of the burning heart. Suddenly Jesus appears to us, the fires are kindled, we have wonderful visions; then we have to learn to keep the secret of the burning heart that will go through anything.…