My Utmost for His Highest

by Oswald Chambers

God will never allow you to keep a spiritual blessing completely for yourself. It must be given back to Him so that He can make it a blessing to others.

Or you can say, “I don’t care if I am treated like ‘the filth of the world’ as long as the gospel is proclaimed.”

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God.

Never change your decisions, but be sure to make your decisions in the light of what you saw and learned on the mountain.

Readiness means having a right relationship to God and having the knowledge of where we are.

but we are not ready for some obscure duty.

Jesus Christ expects to do with us just as His Father did with Him.

The burning bush is a symbol of everything that surrounds the person who is ready, and it is on fire with the presence of God Himself.

It is in the aftermath of a great spiritual event that the least likely things begin to have an effect.

but stay alert;

If we have received the Holy Spirit, God expects the work of the Holy Spirit to be exhibited in us.

Lazy people always strike out at others in an independent way.

If you make a god out of your best moments, you will find that God will fade out of your life, never to return until you are obedient in the work He has placed closest to you, and until you have learned not to be obsessed with those exceptional moments He has given you.

A person’s character determines how he interprets God’s will

If we obey what God says according to our sincere belief, God will break us from those traditional beliefs that misrepresent Him.

He was there to obey God, no matter what contrary belief of his might be violated by his obedience.

If you will remain true to God, God will lead you directly through every barrier and right into the inner chamber of the knowledge of Himself.

Don’t ask God to test you.

God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness.

If we continually try to bring back those exceptional moments of inspiration, it is a sign that it is not God we want. We are becoming obsessed with the moments

Vital intercession leaves you with neither the time nor the inclination to pray for your own “sad and pitiful self.”

God gives us discernment in the lives of others to call us to intercession for them, never so that we may find fault with them.

Salvation is the great thought of God, not an experience.

Never preach the experience—preach the great thought of God behind the experience.

When the truth is preached, the Spirit of God brings each person face to face with God Himself.

” (2 Peter 1:4).

2 Peter 1:4New Living Translation (NLT) 4 And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

Then we have to work that divine nature into our human nature by developing godly habits.

No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it removes God from the throne of our lives, replacing Him with our own self-interests.

Be marked and identified with God’s nature, and His blessing will flow through you all the time.

FILLIONAIRE!!!!

and by His ascension our Lord entered heaven, keeping the door open for humanity.

But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God.

In other words, pay attention to the Source,

Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears?

The Holy Spirit is the one who makes everything that Jesus did for you real in your life.

Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him.

our sense of duty is only fully realized through our sense of heroism.

The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known.

The Holy Spirit is the only one in the proper position to criticize, and He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding.

There is no escaping the penetrating search of my life by Jesus.

What you are to preach is also determined by God, not by your own natural leanings or desires.

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness.

unflinching faithfulness

one thing I do

But once His life has been created in me through His redemption, I instantly recognize His right to absolute authority over me.

Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith.

They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation

it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God!