- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – What is it about some leaders? They seem to have that extra “Oohmph!” Their people are unusually productive, grievances from their area are infrequent and quality is high. People from other areas want to be transferred to their departments. What [...]
24Jan11
God’s Promises Breed Passion
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20Jan11
Faithfulness in the Ordinary
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. 327 • A Christian worker has to learn how [...]
- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – Relationships are the currency of heaven. Being rightly related to God and rightly related to others – this is true righteousness. God, who loved us first, makes it possible for us to love him. Loving him makes it possible for [...]
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17Jan11
Trust and Obedience
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Beware of the inclination to dictate to God as to what you will allow to happen if you obey Him. 11 • Many of us are loyal to our notions of Jesus Christ, but how [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – Biblically speaking, there are two things on this planet that are going to endure: people and the word of God. If we take God’s eternal word and invest it in eternal people, then we’re leveraging the temporal for eternity. We’re [...]
God of light and love, You want what is really best for me, but I find myself resisting Your will because it challenges my autonomy and self-dependence. But I know that if I seek to order my life according to my own devices and desires, I will end up making a growing number of compromises [...]
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- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • If you have been shrewd in finding out the defects in others, remember that will be exactly the measure given to you. Life serves back in the coin you pay. Who of us would dare [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – While Scripture provides us only glimpses of God’s ultimate purposes in creating the cosmos, the Word does reveal God’s universal purpose for believers. In short, this purpose is to know Christ and to make him known. God does not want [...]
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10Jan11
Renewal with the Word: A Prayer
Living Word, I affirm that all things come from You and through You and to You. You have made the cosmos and all that is in it, and You hold all things together. All truth is derived from You, and You tell me to love You with all my mind as well as all my [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – God has a passion for intimacy with his people. Singer-songwriter Michael Card put it in fundamental terms when he sang, “Could it be that You would really rather die than live without us?” That’s the length to which God will [...]
