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"When we are born over again by the Spirit of God, our testimony is based solely on what God has washed for u.s.a., and rightly so. Only that will change and be removed forever once yous "receive power when the Holy Spirit has come up upon you . . ." (Acts 1:8). Only then will you brainstorm to realize what Jesus meant when He went on to say, ". . . you shall be witnesses to Me. . . " Not witnesses to what Jesus can do—that is basic and understood—but "witnesses to Me . . . ." We will have everything that happens equally if it were happening to Him, whether nosotros receive praise or blame, persecution or advantage. No one is able to accept this stand for Jesus Christ who is not totally compelled past the majesty of His power. It is the simply thing that matters, and yet it is strange that it'south the last thing we equally Christian workers realize. Paul said that he was gripped by the love of God and that is why he acted every bit he did. People could perceive him as mad or sane—he did not care. There was simply 1 affair he lived for—to persuade people of the coming judgment of God and to tell them of "the love of Christ." This total surrender to "the love of Christ" is the simply thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it volition always go out the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Continually examine your attitude toward God to see if you are willing to "exit" in every area of your life, trusting in God entirely. Information technology is this mental attitude that keeps you in constant wonder, because you lot don't know what God is going to do next. Each morning as you lot wake, there is a new opportunity to "go out," edifice your confidence in God. ". . . do not worry about your life . . . nor nearly the body . . ." (Luke 12:22). In other words, don't worry nearly the things that concerned you before yous did "go out."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Nosotros tend to think that if Jesus Christ compels us to exercise something and we are obedient to Him, He volition lead us to great success. Nosotros should never take the thought that our dreams of success are God's purpose for u.s.a.. In fact, His purpose may exist exactly the opposite."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

" If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. Information technology is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"February xvi The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative Arise from the dead. Ephesians 5:14 All initiative is not inspired. A human being may say to you—"Buck up, take your disinclination past the throat, throw it overboard, and walk out into the thing!" That is ordinary human initiative. Merely when the Spirit of God comes in and says, in effect, "Buck upwards," nosotros find that the initiative is inspired. We all have any number of visions and ideals when nosotros are young, but sooner or subsequently nosotros find that we take no power to make them real. We cannot practice the things we long to do, and we are apt to settle downward to the visions and ideals as expressionless, and God has to come and say—"Ascend from the dead." When the inspiration of God does come up, information technology comes with such miraculous ability that we are able to arise from the dead and do the incommunicable thing. The remarkable thing nearly spiritual initiative is that the life comes after we do the "bucking upwardly." God does not give the states overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome. When the inspiration of God comes, and He says—"Arise from the expressionless," nosotros have to get upwards; God does not lift the states upwards. Our Lord said to the human with the withered hand—"Stretch along thy mitt," and as presently every bit the man did and so, his hand was healed, but he had to take the initiative. If we will practice the overcoming, we shall detect we are inspired of God because He gives life immediately."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"March 30 Holiness v. Hardness towards God And He . . . wondered that there was no intercessor. Isaiah 59:16 The reason many of us leave off praying and become difficult towards God is because we have just a sentimental interest in prayer. It sounds correct to say that nosotros pray; we read books on prayer which tell united states of america that prayer is beneficial, that our minds are quieted and our souls uplifted when we pray; only Isaiah implies that God is amazed at such thoughts of prayer. Worship and intercession must become together, the one is incommunicable without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Too frequently instead of worshipping God, we construct statements as to how prayer works. Are we worshipping or are we in dispute with God—"I don't run into how You lot are going to do it." This is a sure sign that we are not worshipping. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our ain petitions at God'south throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become difficult towards other people. Are we so worshipping God that nosotros rouse ourselves up to lay agree on Him, that we may exist brought into contact with His mind about the ones for whom we pray? Are we living in a holy relationship to God, or are we hard and dogmatic? "But there is no one interceding properly"—and then be that ane yourself, exist the ane who worships God and who lives in holy relationship to him. Get into the existent work of intercession, and remember it is a work, a work that taxes every power; but a work which has no snare. Preaching the gospel has a snare; intercessory prayer has none."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Paul said, "I beseech you . . . that you present your bodies a living sacrifice . . ." (Romans 12:1). What I must make up one's mind is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body will indeed be His temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the torso are summed upward for me in this revealed truth—my body is "the temple of the Holy Spirit."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, merely obedience."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"March 6 Among a Crowd of Paltry Things . . . in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses. ii Corinthians six:4 It takes Omnipotent grace to take the next step when at that place is no vision and no spectator—the next step in devotion, the next step in your written report, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when at that place is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that stride, than it does to preach the Gospel. Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing downward into flesh-and-claret actualities and work it out through the finger-tips. We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, simply merely the common round, the footling job. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only mode to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it volition be impossible for drudgery to damp yous. Continually get away from nothingness and paltriness of mind and idea out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John'southward Gospel."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"It'due south i thing to get through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every twenty-four hour period glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Peter said to Him, 'Lord, why can I not follow You now?'" John 13:37     There are times when y'all can't understand why yous cannot exercise what yous want to do. When God brings a fourth dimension of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait. The time of waiting may come to teach you the meaning of sanctification—to be set apart from sin and made holy—or it may come up after the process of sanctification has begun to teach you what service means. Never run before God gives you His direction. If you lot have the slightest uncertainty, and so He is not guiding. Whenever at that place is uncertainty—look."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"When I come into the very presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular expanse of my life. A person will easily say, "Oh yeah, I know I am a sinner," merely when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a wide and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, every bit Isaiah did, what we actually are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"A Christian is called to be Jesus Christ'south own, "a servant [who] is not greater than his main" (John 13:16), and someone who does not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. Our Lord calls us to no special work—He calls u.s. to Himself."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"We cannot detect the source of our natural life through common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, just from concentrating on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if nosotros will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we volition grow spiritually—merely every bit "the lilies of the field."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"O Lord, explore downward to the deepest springs of my spirit where Thy Spirit works, and read my deepest prayers I cannot pray in expression. Lord, bear on my body, information technology is Thy temple, smoothen out in and through information technology, O Lord."
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Inquire

" We are inclined to recollect that everything that happens is to be turned into useful education. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than instruction, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach usa anything, it is meant to brand united states something."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"We act similar pagans in a crisis—only ane out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his religion in the grapheme of God."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"I am chosen to alive in perfect relation to God and so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives, non admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His testify-room; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him practise what He likes."
― Oswald Chambers

"To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught information technology.     The truthful test of our spirituality occurs when nosotros come up upwards against injustice, degradation, ingratitude, and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritually lazy. While being tested, we desire to use prayer and Bible reading for the purpose of finding a placidity retreat. Nosotros use God only for the sake of getting peace and joy. We seek just our enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization of Him. This is the offset step in the wrong management. All these things we are seeking are merely effects, and yet we endeavour to make them causes."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"When you yield to something, you will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you lot. Even though y'all say, "Oh, I tin give up that habit whenever I like," you lot will know yous can't. You will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded to it. It is easy to sing, "He will interruption every fetter," while at the same time living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus volition break every kind of slavery in any person's life."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"O Lord, lift Thou up the low-cal of Thy countenance upon the states this day, and make united states to fit in with Thy plans with great sweetness and light and liberty, and a lilt to Thee all day."
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Inquire

"Never look for right in the other human, just never cease to be right yourself. Nosotros are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never await for justice, only never terminate to give"
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"March 23 Am I Carnally Minded? Whereas at that place is among yous jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal? 1 Corinthians 3:three (rv) No natural homo knows anything nearly carnality. The flesh lusting against the Spirit that came in at regeneration, and the Spirit lusting against the flesh, produces carnality. "Walk in the Spirit," says Paul, "and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the mankind"; and libidinousness will disappear. Are y'all contentious, easily troubled about trifles? "Oh, but no one who is a Christian ever is!" Paul says they are, he connects these things with carnality. Is there a truth in the Bible that instantly awakens petulance in you? That is a proof that you are yet carnal. If sanctification is being worked out, there is no trace of that spirit left. If the Spirit of God detects annihilation in you that is wrong, He does not ask you lot to put it correct; He asks you to have the light, and He will put it right. A kid of the light confesses instantly and stands bared before God; a child of the darkness says—"Oh, I can explain that away." When once the light breaks and the confidence of wrong comes, be a child of the light, and confess, and God volition deal with what is incorrect; if you vindicate yourself, you show yourself to be a child of the darkness. What is the proof that carnality has gone? Never deceive yourself; when carnality is gone information technology is the most existent thing imaginable. God volition see that you lot accept any number of opportunities to prove to yourself the marvel of His grace. The practical examination is the merely proof. "Why," y'all say, "if this had happened before, there would have been the spirit of resentment!" You will never finish to be the most amazed person on world at what God has done for yous on the within."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

" God came every bit a infant, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a "Bethlehem." Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transformed past the indwelling life of the Son of God? God's ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Sanctification is not something Jesus puts in me—it is Himself in me (see 1 Corinthians ane:thirty)."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"Today we accept substituted doctrinal belief for personal conventionalities, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and then few are devoted to Jesus Christ."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"All things work together for skilful to them that dearest God. Romans 8:28 The circumstances of a saint's life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as hazard. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at all, merely the Spirit of God understands."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the sea has a shore."
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

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