My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 23, 2023 : Topic – Sanctification (2) Read Previous Devotionals here But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us…sanctification… —1 Corinthians 1:30 The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me,… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 22, 2023 : Topic – Sanctification (1) Read previous Devotionals here This is the will of God, your sanctification… —1 Thessalonians 4:3 The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side. Sanctification requires our… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 21, 2023 : Topic – The Doorway to the Kingdom Read previous Devotionals here Blessed are the poor in spirit… —Matthew 5:3 Beware of thinking of our Lord as only a teacher. If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me… Read More »
My Utmost For Highest Devotional For July 20, 2023 : Topic – Dependent on God’s Presence Read previous Devotionals here Those who wait on the Lord…shall walk and not faint. —Isaiah 40:31 There is no thrill for us in walking, yet it is the test for all of our steady and enduring qualities. To “walk… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 19, 2023 : Topic – The Submission of the Believer Read previous Devotionals here You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. —John 13:13 Our Lord never insists on having authority over us. He never says, “You will submit to me.” No, He… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 18, 2023 : Topic – The Mystery of Believing Read previous Devotionals here He said, “Who are You, Lord?” —Acts 9:5 Through the miracle of redemption, Saul of Tarsus was instantly changed from a strong-willed and forceful Pharisee into a humble and devoted bondservant of the Lord… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 17, 2023 : Topic – The Miracle of Belief Read previous Devotionals here My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom… —1 Corinthians 2:4 Paul was a scholar and an orator of the highest degree; he was not speaking here out of… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 16, 2023 : Topic – The Concept of Divine Control Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here …how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! —Matthew 7:11 Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct in this passage… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 15, 2023 : Topic – My Life’s Spiritual Honor and Duty Read previous Devotionals here I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians… —Romans 1:14 Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent his life to express it.… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 14, 2023 : Topic – Suffering Afflictions and Going the Second Mile Read previous Devotionals here I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. —Matthew 5:39 This verse reveals the humiliation of… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 13, 2023 : Topic – The Price of the Vision Read previous Devotionals here In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord… —Isaiah 6:1 Our soul’s personal history with God is often an account of the death of our heroes. Over and over again… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 12, 2023 : Topic – The Spiritually Self-Seeking Church Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here …till we all come…to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ… —Ephesians 4:13 Reconciliation means the restoring of the relationship between the entire human race and God, putting it… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 11, 2023 : Topic – The Spiritually Vigorous Saint Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here …that I may know Him… —Philippians 3:10 A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 7, 2023 : Topic – All Efforts of Worth and Excellence Are Difficult Read previous Devotionals here Enter by the narrow gate….Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life…. —Matthew 7:13-14 If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus,… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 6, 2023 : Topic – Visions Becoming Reality Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here The parched ground shall become a pool… —Isaiah 35:7 We always have a vision of something before it actually becomes real to us. When we realize that the vision is real, but is… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 5, 2023 : Topic – Don’t Plan Without God Read previous Devotionals here Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. —Psalm 37:5 Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 4, 2023 : Topic – One of God’s Great “Don’ts” Read previous Devotionals here Do not fret— it only causes harm. —Psalm 37:8 Fretting means getting ourselves “out of joint” mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say, “Do not fret,” but something very different to… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For July 1, 2023 : Topic – The Inevitable Penalty Read previous Devotionals here You will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny. —Matthew 5:26 There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotionals For June 29, 2023 : Topic – The Strictest Discipline Read previous Devotionals here If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 28, 2023 : Topic – Held by the Grip of God Read previous Devotionals here I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. —Philippians 3:12 Never choose to be a worker for God, but once… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 27, 2023 : Topic – The Overshadowing of God’s Personal Deliverance Read previous Devotionals here “…I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord. —Jeremiah 1:8 God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally— “…your life shall be as a prize to you…” (Jeremiah 39:18).… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 26, 2023 : Topic – Drawing on the Grace of God— Now Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here We…plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. —2 Corinthians 6:1 The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 25, 2023 : Topic – Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow Read previous Devotionals here …what shall I say? “Father, save Me from this hour”? But for this purpose I came to this hour. “Father, glorify Your name.” —John 12:27-28 As a saint of God, my… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 24, 2023 : Topic – Reconciling Yourself to the Fact of Sin Read previous Devotionals here This is your hour, and the power of darkness. —Luke 22:53 Not being reconciled to the fact of sin— not recognizing it and refusing to deal with it— produces all the… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 22, 2023 : Topic – The Unchanging Law of Judgment Read previous Devotionals here With what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. —Matthew 7:2 This statement is not some haphazard theory, but it… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 21, 2023 : Topic – The Ministry of the Inner Life Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here You are…a royal priesthood… —1 Peter 2:9 By what right have we become “a royal priesthood”? It is by the right of the atonement by the Cross of Christ that… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 20, 2023 : Topic – Have You Come to “When” Yet? Read previous Oswald Chamber Devotionals here The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. —Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 19, 2023 : Topic – The Service of Passionate Devotion Read previous Devotionals here …do you love Me?…Tend My sheep. —John 21:16 Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 18, 2023 : Topic- Keep Recognizing Jesus Read previous Devotionals here …Peter…walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid… —Matthew 14:29-30 The wind really was boisterous and the waves really were high, but Peter didn’t… Read More »
My Utmost For His Highest Devotional For June 17, 2023 : Topic – Beware of Criticizing Others Read previous Devotionals here Judge not, that you be not judged. —Matthew 7:1 Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, “Don’t.” The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism… Read More »