Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Men ought always to pray, and not to faint – Luke 18:1 You cannot intercede if you do not believe in the reality of the Redemption; you will turn intercession into…
Personality
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. “That they may be one, even as we are one.” – John 17:22 Personality is that peculiar, incalculable thing that is meant when we speak of ourselves as distinct from everyone…
Individuality
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself.” – Matthew 16:24 Individuality is the husk of the personal life. Individuality is all elbows, it separates and isolates. It…
The Offering of the Natural
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. – Galatians 4:22 Paul is not dealing with sin in this chapter of Galatians, but with the…
The Offence of the Natural
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. – Galatians 5:24 The natural life is not sinful; we must be apostatized from sin, have nothing…
The Impartial Power of God
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. – Hebrew 10:14 We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we…
Repentance
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. – 2 Corinthians 7:10 Conviction of sin is best portrayed in the words- ‘My sins, my sins, my Saviour. How sad on Thee they…
The Bow in the Cloud
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. – Genesis 9:13 It is the will of…
Not By Might Nor By Power
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” – 1 Corinthians 2:4 If in preaching the…
Christian Perfection
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. . . . – Philippians 3:12 It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens…
The Law and the Gospel
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10 The moral law does not consider us as weak human…
By the Grace of God I Am What I Am
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain. – 1 Corinthians 15:10 The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. The…
The Absoluteness of Jesus Christ
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. He shall glorify Me. – John 16:14 The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs…
The Secret Of Spiritual Coherence
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. – Galatians 6:14 When a man is first born again, he becomes incoherent, there is…
Direction of Aspiration
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, . . . so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God. – Psalm 123:2 This verse is…