Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. – 2 Corinthians 12:15 When the Spirit of God has shed abroad the love of God in our hearts, we begin…
The Determination to Serve
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Be still, and know that I am God.The son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. – Matthew 20:28. Paul’s idea of service is the same as…
The Discipline of Spiritual Tenacity
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going…
Have You Ever Been Carried Away for Him?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. She hath wrought a good work on Me. – Mark 14:6 If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always…
The Initiative Against Despair
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Rise let us be going. – Matthew 26:46 The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The…
The Initiative Against Depression
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Arise and eat. – 1 Kings 19:5 The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the…
The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Arise from the dead. – Ephesians 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…
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
The Discipline of Heeding
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Must I Listen?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Is Your Hope in God Faint and Dying?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Is Your Imagination of God Starved?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Are You Exhausted Spiritually?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. 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…
Instantaneous and Insistent Sanctification
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. – 1 Thessalonians 5:23 When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take…
The Discipline of Dejection
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But we trusted . . . and beside all this, to-day is the third day . . . . . – Luke 24:21 Every fact that the disciples stated was right;…