(he had a huge heart for the soldiers and preached many of his sermons there).Īnd a bonus fact: All of Oswald’s books were transcribed from his sermon notes by his wife, Gertrude “Biddy” Hobbs Chambers. After starting the college, he moved to Egypt with his wife and daughter where he took an assignment at the Y.M.C.A. He was a minister and started a Bible training college.My Utmost for His Highest is his most popular and has never been out of print … isn’t that crazy? Oswald Chambers was born on July 24, 1874, and died November 15, 1917.Here are a few things you may not know about Oswald: Forgive my tardiness it takes me so long to awaken to some things.This next book is the most-often quoted in my journals from the time I became a believer: My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Lord, the range of Your power, the touch of Your grace, the breathing of Your Spirit-how I long for these to bring me face to face with You. If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably. That moment becomes a great crossroads in our lives. He then providentially produces a crisis where we have to decide-for or against. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to God’s gentler nudges. But before we choose to follow God’s will, a crisis must develop in our lives. Paul was determined that nothing would stop him from doing exactly what God wanted. “Whether it means life or death-it makes no difference!” (see 1:21). My Unstoppable Determination for His Holiness. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone. Shut out every other thought and keep yourself before God in this one thing only-my utmost for His highest. When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn’t know what our obedience will mean. An undue amount of thought and consideration for ourselves is what keeps us from making that decision, although we cover it up with the pretense that it is others we are considering. It is absolute and irrevocable surrender of the will at that point.

It’s as if Paul were saying, “My determined purpose is to be my utmost for His highest-my best for His glory.” To reach that level of determination is a matter of the will, not of debate or of reasoning. ” We will all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus the areas of our lives He has asked us to yield to Him. my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed.

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