Happy New Year and Welcome to My Utmost 2024! Today we begin an all-new Bible Reading Challenge…but this time we're adding a daily entry from my favorite devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. If you'd rather not read the devotional, that's fine. You can focus on the...
Oswald Chambers
12 Life-Changing Quotes from My Utmost for His Highest
Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chamber Congratulations, my friends! If you've been following our MY UTMOST Bible & Devotional Reading Challenge, we've done it – we’ve actually done it! For fifty-two consecutive weeks, we've journaled through our time in...
Trusting God’s Work in Others
Are you willing to speak the truth even when it hurts? Week 51 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34 OSWALD: “Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is...
Are You Willing to Do Hard Things?
Week 50 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15 OSWALD: "If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until...
The Gift of Repentance
Are you trying to produce holiness on your own? Week 49 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 OSWALD: “The new life will manifest itself in conscious repentance and unconscious...
When Humility Isn’t Humility
Do you feel inadequate for the task ahead? Week 48 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 OSWALD: “The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator....
Laying Down Our Sword
Are you seeking vindication? Week 47 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.” Psalm 123:3 OSWALD: "Refuse to be swamped with the cares of this life...[and] the...
The Danger of Surrogate Messiahs
Do you often try to "fix things" for everyone else? Week 46 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “Lord, what shall this man do? …What is that to thee? Follow thou Me.” John 21:21,22 OSWALD: “One of the hardest lessons to learn comes from our stubborn...
The Problem of Self-Pity
Is self-pity knocking at your door? Week 45 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “Fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 3:2 OSWALD: “I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great...
The Doorway of Heartbreak
Are you walking through a heartbreak right now? Week 44 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “Know ye not that …ye are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19 OSWALD: “Why shouldn’t we go through heartbreaks? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of...
Being Shaped for God’s Purposes
Who is shaping your life? Week 43 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” 1 Corinthians 9:22 OSWALD: "'I chose you…' (John 15:16). Keep these words as a wonderful reminder in your...
The Greater Work | Guest Michelle Ule
God has drafted you into His prayer army. Week 42 - Celebrating 100 Years of Oswald Chambers VERSE: "And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father." John 14:12 OSWALD: "Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work....