Month: January 2015

On Freedom

Christ

  O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance. -Isaiah 26:13   One of the amazing benefits of knowing the Lord is freedom.  If we make him lord of ourselves, and since he’s lord of all things, we’re given freedom from the things that used to hold us back – the anxiety of being alone, the regret of things done wrong, the desire […]

Jan 24

My Utmost for His Highest

“When we are born again we all have visions, if we are spiritual at all, of what Jesus wants us to be, and the great thing is to learn not to be disobedient to the vision, not to say that it cannot be attained.” -Oswald Chambers -Acts 26:16

Jan 13

My Utmost for His Highest

“If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.  Your brother’s sorrows and perplexities are an absolute confusion to you.” –Oswald Chambers –Mark 4:10

Jan 7

My Utmost for His Highest

“When once we get intimate with Jesus we are never lonely, we never need sympathy, we can pour out all the time without being pathetic…The only impression left by such a life is that of the strong calm sanity that Our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.” –Oswald Chambers –John 14:9

Jan 2

My Utmost for His Highest

“He went out, not knowing whither he went.” “Have you been ‘out’ in this way?  If so, there is no logical statement possible when anyone asks you what you are doing.  One of the difficulties in Christian work is the question– ‘What do you expect to do?’ You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know that God knows what He is doing.” –Oswald Chambers –Hebrews 11:8