Tag Archives: Oswald Chambers

Thursday May 23, 2024 Matthew 6:25 “Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.” Jesus sums up commonsense carefulness in a disciple as … Continue reading →

Thursday May 16, 2024 2 Peter 1:4 Partakers of the divine nature. We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first … Continue reading →

Thursday May 9, 2024 Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint. There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has no moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give … Continue reading →

Thursday May 2, 2024 Habakkuk 2:3 If it seems slow, wait for it. Patience is not indifference; patience conveys the idea of an immensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts. The vision of God is the source of patience, because it … Continue reading →

Thursday April 25, 2024 2 Timothy 4:2 Be ready in season and out of season. Many of us suffer from the morbid tendency to be instant “out of season.” The season does not refer to time, but to us. “Be … Continue reading →

Thursday April 18, 2024 Exodus 3:4 God called to him . . . And he said, “Here I am.” When God speaks, many of us are like men in a fog, we give no answer. Moses’ reply revealed that he … Continue reading →

Thursday April 11, 2024 Romans 6:5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion … Continue reading →

Thursday April 4, 2024 John 16:32 “Behold, the hour is coming, . . . when you will be scattered.” Jesus is not rebuking the disciples, their faith was real, but it was disturbed; it was not at work in actual … Continue reading →

Thursday March 28, 2024 John 11:7-8 [Jesus said,] “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “. . . are you going there again?” I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to … Continue reading →

Thursday March 21, 2024 Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. The imperative need spiritually is to sign the death-warrant of the disposition of sin, to turn all emotional impressions and intellectual beliefs into a moral verdict against the … Continue reading →

Thursday March 14, 2024 Romans 6:16 You are slaves of the one whom you obey. The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for … Continue reading →

Thursday March 7, 2024 Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Paul is speaking of the things that might seem likely to separate or wedge in between the saint and … Continue reading →

Thursday February 29, 2024 Luke 18:41 “Lord, let me recover my sight.” What is the thing that not only disturbs you but makes you a disturbance? It is always something you cannot deal with yourself. “They rebuked him, that he … Continue reading →

Thursday February 22, 2024 Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God.” Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more … Continue reading →

Thursday February 15, 2024 Romans 14:7 For none of us lives to himself. Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible for other souls spiritually before God? For instance, if I allow any private deflection from God in … Continue reading →

Thursday February 8, 2024 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too … Continue reading →

Thursday February 1, 2024 1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. Paul states here that the call of God is to preach the gospel; but remember what Paul means by “the … Continue reading →

Thursday January 25, 2024 Galatians 1:15-16 But when he . . . who called me by his grace, was pleased . . . As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God—to give God ‘elbow room.’ … Continue reading →

Thursday January 18, 2024 John 20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” “Give Me to drink.” How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be satisfying Him? We should be … Continue reading →

Thursday January 11, 2024 Luke 23:26 They seized one Simon of Cyrene . . . and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it … Continue reading →