Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. But ye are . . . a royal priesthood. – 1 Peter 2:9 By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”?? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. – Job 42:10 The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matthew 7:1 Jesus says regarding judging-Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend . . . . I have called you friends. – John 15:13 Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In the Matter of Drudgery. And beside this, . . . add. – 2 Peter 1:5 You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v. 4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. “Addâ€? means all that character means. No man is [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. In the Matter of Determination. Abide in Me. – John 15:4 The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by the Atonement, then I have to construct with patience the way of thinking that is exactly in accordance with my Lord. God will not make me [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. Come ye after Me. Mark 1:17 One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Seek, and ye shall find. – Luke 11:9 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask amiss, i.e., you ask from a desire for self-realization. The more you realize yourself the less [...]

Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Ask if you have not Received. For everyone that asketh receiveth. – Luke 11:10 There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer, but not until we are at the extreme limit will we ask. A sense of [...]