- This is the conclusion of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you. 135 • The unfathomable sadness [...]
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7Feb11
The Role of Adversity
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict. 242 • Troubles nearly always make us look to God; His blessings are apt to make us look elsewhere. [...]
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2Feb11
The Thought Life
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • In the spiritual life beware of walking according to natural affinities. 264 • Supernatural sense is the gift of His Son; never enthrone common sense. Our ordinary wits never worship God unless they are transfigured [...]
28Jan11
Self-knowledge
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Either Jesus Christ is the supreme Authority on the human heart, or He is not worth paying any attention to. He understood the terrible possibilities that are in the heart. 208 • It is astounding [...]
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25Jan11
Pleasing God Rather than Others
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Being ambitious only to be pleasing to Him. I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I [...]
7Jan11
The Role of Service
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. Beware of the people who make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make [...]
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • A great many Christian workers worship their work. There is no responsibility on you for the work; the only responsibility you have is to keep in living constant touch with God, and to see that [...]
30Dec10
God’s Guidance in Our Lives
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the Divine guidance of God through childlike people who were foolish enough to trust God’s wisdom and the supernatural equipment of God. 300 [...]
1Dec10
The Throne of God
- This is the final installment in a series that has been adapted from my study of A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. – Ultimately, Tozer ends The Pursuit of God precisely where he began – at the throne of God. Along the way he has coaxed and coached us into growing [...]
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- This is part of a series that has been adapted from my study of A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. – Tozer makes an important distinction, “It does not mean, for instance, that everything we do is of equal importance with everything else we do or may do. One act of [...]
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