Have You Ever Been Alone with God? (2)

Jan 13, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

When He was alone…the twelve asked Him about the parable. —Mark 4:10 His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us...

Have You Ever Been Alone with God? (1)

Jan 12, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

When they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples. —Mark 4:34 Our Solitude with Him. Jesus doesn’t take us aside and explain things to us all the time; He explains things to us as we are able to understand them. The lives of others are examples for us,...

What My Obedience to God Costs Other People

Jan 11, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

As they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon…, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. —Luke 23:26 If we obey God, it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the pain begins. If we are in love...

The Opened Sight

Jan 10, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

I now send you, to open their eyes…that they may receive forgiveness of sins… —Acts 26:17-18 This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament. God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed...

Prayerful Inner-Searching

Jan 9, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless… —1 Thessalonians 5:23 “Your whole spirit….” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139. The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are...

Is My Sacrifice Living?

Jan 8, 2022 | Daily Devotional, Oswald Chambers my utmost for his highest

Abraham built an altar…; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar… —Genesis 22:9 This event is a picture of the mistake we make in thinking that the ultimate God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which...