Tag Archives: Oswald Chambers

THE SPHERE OF HUMILIATION Mark 9:22 “If You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” After every time of exaltation we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as they are, where it is neither … Continue reading →

WHAT DO YOU SEE IN YOUR CLOUDS? Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him . . . In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or … Continue reading →

INSIGHT NOT EMOTION 2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. For a time we are conscious of God’s attentions, then, when God begins to use us in His enterprises, we take on a pathetic look and … Continue reading →

THE DELIGHT OF SACRIFICE 2 Corinthians 12:15 I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. When the Spirit of God has shed abroad the love of God in our hearts, we begin deliberately to identify ourselves with … Continue reading →

January 03, 2025 Isaiah 52:12 For the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. Security from Yesterday. “God requires that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with … Continue reading →

December 01, 2024 John 16:14 He will glorify Me . . . The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus … Continue reading →

Thursday August 29, 2024 John 11:40 “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your … Continue reading →

Thursday August 22, 2024 Matthew 3:11 “I indeed baptize you with water . . . but He . . . will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Have I ever come to a place in my experience where … Continue reading →

Thursday August 15, 2024 John 3:7 “You must be born again.” The answer to the question “How can a man be born when he is old?” is—When he is old enough to die—to die right out to his ‘rag rights,’ … Continue reading →

Thursday August 8, 2024 Luke 1:35 That Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. If the Son of God is born into my mortal flesh, is His holy innocence and simplicity and oneness … Continue reading →

Thursday August 1, 2024 Matthew 11:1 Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities. He comes where He commands us to leave. If … Continue reading →

Thursday July 25, 2024 Matthew 5:3-10 “Blessed are . . .” When we first read the statements of Jesus they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unobserved into our unconscious minds. For instance, the Beatitudes seem merely mild … Continue reading →

Thursday July 18, 2024 Acts 9:5 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” By the miracle of Redemption Saul of Tarsus was turned in one second from a strong-willed, intense Pharisee into a humble, devoted slave of the Lord Jesus. … Continue reading →

Thursday July 11, 2024 Philippians 3:10 That I may know him. The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but towards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as … Continue reading →

Thursday July 4, 2024 Psalm 37:8 Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say ‘Fret not,’ but a very different thing to have such a … Continue reading →

Thursday June 27, 2024 Jeremiah 1:8 “I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD. God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally—“Thy life will I give unto thee for a prey.” That is all God promises His … Continue reading →

Thursday June 20, 2024 Job 42:10 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. The plaintive, self-centered, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in … Continue reading →

Thursday June 13, 2024 Mark 1:17 Jesus said . . . “Follow me.” Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our … Continue reading →

Thursday June 6, 2024 Philippians 2:12 Work out your own salvation . . . Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a disposition which renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. … Continue reading →

Thursday May 30, 2024 Luke 9:61 “I will follow you, Lord, but . . .” Supposing God tells you to do something which is an enormous test to your common sense, what are you going to do? Hang back? If … Continue reading →