Tag: Oswald Chambers

  • THE METHOD OF MISSIONS

    My Utmost For His Highest Go ye therefore and teach (disciple) all nations. Matthew 28:19. Jesus Christ did not say—‘Go and save souls’ (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but—“Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all nations,” and you cannot make disciples unless you are a disciple yourself. When the disciples came…

  • WHAT IS A MISSIONARY?

    My Utmost For His Highest As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. John 20:21. A missionary is one sent by Jesus Christ as He was sent by God. The great dominant note is not the needs of men, but the command of Jesus. The source of our inspiration in work for…

  • THE EXTERNAL CRUSH OF THINGS

    My Utmost For His Highest I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 1 Cor. 9:22. A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s noble man or woman amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea—‘If only I were somewhere else!’ All God’s…

  • THE VIEWPOINT

    My Utmost For His Highest Now thanks be to God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. 2 Cor. 2:14. The viewpoint of a worker for God must not be as near the highest as he can get, it must be the highest. Be careful to maintain strenuously God’s point of view, it has…

  • NOT A BIT OF IT!

    My Utmost For His Highest If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away. 2 Cor. 5:17. Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite sure that God…

  • THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT

    My Utmost For His Highest The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit … Romans 8:16 (R.V.). We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have done what God tells us to do. ‘Why does not God reveal Himself to me?’ He cannot;…

  • DIRECTION BY IMPULSE

    My Utmost For His Highest Building up yourselves on your most holy faith. Jude 20. There was nothing either of the nature of impulse or of coldbloodedness about Our Lord, but only a calm strength that never got into panic. Most of us develop our Christianity along the line of our temperament, not along the…

  • IS GOD’S WILL MY WILL?

    My Utmost For His Highest This is the will of God, even your sanctification. 1 Thess. 4:3. It is not a question of whether God is willing to sanctify me; is it my will? Am I willing to let God do in me all that has been made possible by the Atonement? Am I willing…

  • THE UNHEEDED SECRET

    My Utmost For His Highest My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:36. The great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted…

  • GREATER WORKS

    My Utmost For His Highest And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father. John 14:12. Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a commonsense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God’s work.…