Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . that I may know Him . . . -- Philippians 3:10 I am not here for self-realization, but to know Jesus Christ. In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Philippians 3:10 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 4:35:10 AM    comment []

Monday, July 10, 2006

Daily Devotional: Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together . . . -- Hebrews 10:24-25 The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up -- all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world. Yet Jesus Christ never encourages the idea of retirement -- He says, "Go and tell My brethren . . ." -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Hebrews 10:24-25 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:52:25 AM    comment []

Sunday, July 9, 2006

Daily Devotional: Joshua said to the people, 'You cannot serve the Lord . . .' -- Joshua 24:19 It really is true to say, "I cannot live a holy life," but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. "You cannot serve the Lord . . ." -- but you can place yourself in the proper position where God's almighty power will flow through you. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Joshua 24:19 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 4:17:03 AM    comment []

Saturday, July 8, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve . . . -- Joshua 24:15 I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives me a vision of truth, there is never a question of what He will do, but only of what I will do. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Joshua 24:15 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 4:43:56 AM    comment []

Friday, July 7, 2006

Daily Devotional: Enter by the narrow gate . . . . Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life . . . -- Matthew 7:13-14 If we will obey the Spirit of God and practice in our physical life what God has placed within us by His Spirit, then when a crisis does come we will find that our own nature, as well as the grace of God, will stand by us. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 7:13-14 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 7:28:51 AM    comment []

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Daily Devotional: Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass -- Psalms 37:5 God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. We get ourselves into circumstances that were not chosen by God, and suddenly we realize that we have been making our plans without Him -- that we have not even considered Him to be a vital, living factor in the planning of our lives. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Psalms 37:5 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:50:26 AM    comment []

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Daily Devotional: Do not fret -- it only causes harm -- Psalms 37:8 Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans. Fretting is wickedness for a child of God. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Psalms 37:8 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 10:37:27 AM    comment []

Monday, July 3, 2006

Daily Devotional: Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips . . . -- Isaiah 6:5 There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focusing on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting us of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed our mind's attention. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Isaiah 6:5 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:14:24 AM    comment []

Sunday, July 2, 2006

Daily Devotional: If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also . . . . And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me . . . . So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple -- Luke 14:26-27, 33 To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not truly devoted to Jesus Christ. No one on earth has this passionate love for the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Spirit has given it to him. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Luke 14:26-27, 33 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:10:04 AM    comment []

Saturday, July 1, 2006

Daily Devotional: You will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny -- Matthew 5:26 The moment you are willing for God to change your nature, His recreating forces will begin to work. And the moment you realize that God's purpose is to get you into the right relationship with Himself and then with others, He will reach to the very limits of the universe to help you take the right road. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 5:26 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:00:51 PM    comment []

Friday, June 30, 2006

Daily Devotional: Agree with your adversary quickly . . . -- Matthew 5:25 God is determined to have His child as pure, clean, and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will allow His Spirit to use whatever process it may take to bring us to obedience. The fact that we insist on proving that we are right is almost always a clear indication that we have some point of disobedience. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 5:25 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 4:49:51 AM    comment []

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Daily Devotional: If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell -- Matthew 5:30 At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don[base ']t use your restrictions to criticize someone else. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 5:30 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:23:56 AM    comment []

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Daily Devotional: I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me -- Philippians 3:12 Every Christian must testify to the truth of God, but when it comes to the call to preach, there must be the agonizing grip of God's hand on you -- your life is in the grip of God for that very purpose. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Philippians 3:12 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:25:59 AM    comment []

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 'Father, glorify Your name' -- John 12:27-28 As a saint of God, my attitude toward sorrow and difficulty should not be to ask that they be prevented, but to ask that God protect me so that I may remain what He created me to be, in spite of all my fires of sorrow. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 12:27-28 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:58:33 AM    comment []

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Daily Devotional: This is your hour, and the power of darkness -- Luke 22:53 In your human relationships and friendships, have you reconciled yourself to the fact of sin? If not, just around the next corner you will find yourself trapped and you will compromise with it. But if you will reconcile yourself to the fact of sin, you will realize the danger immediately and say, "Yes, I see what this sin would mean." The recognition of sin does not destroy the basis of friendship -- it simply establishes a mutual respect for the fact that the basis of sinful life is disastrous. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Luke 22:53 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 7:15:43 AM    comment []

Friday, June 23, 2006

Daily Devotional: He is . . . a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief -- Isaiah 53:3 The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue -- if sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed. There is nothing more fundamental than that. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Isaiah 53:3 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 8:01:31 AM    comment []

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Daily Devotional: The Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends -- Job 42:10 I can only be right with God if I accept the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift. Am I humble enough to accept it? I have to surrender all my rights and demands, and cease from every self-effort. I must leave myself completely alone in His hands, and then I can begin to pour my life out in the priestly work of intercession. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Job 42:10 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:24:02 AM    comment []

Monday, June 19, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep -- John 21:16 We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 21:16 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:16:37 AM    comment []

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . Peter . . . walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid . . . -- Matthew 14:29-30 If you are truly recognizing your Lord, you have no business being concerned about how and where He engineers your circumstances. The things surrounding you are real, but when you look at them you are immediately overwhelmed, and even unable to recognize Jesus. Then comes His rebuke, ". . . why did you doubt?" -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 14:29-30 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:57:31 AM    comment []

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Daily Devotional: Judge not, that you be not judged -- Matthew 7:1 It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 7:1 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 7:01:35 AM    comment []

Friday, June 16, 2006

Daily Devotional: Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. . . . I have called you friends . . . -- John 15:13, 15 God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, "Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful." -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 15:13, 15 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:31:22 AM    comment []

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Daily Devotional: Abide in Me . . . -- John 15:4 It does not matter what my circumstances are. I can be as much assured of abiding in Jesus in any one of them as I am in any prayer meeting. It is unnecessary to change and arrange my circumstances myself. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 15:4 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:54:40 AM    comment []

Monday, June 12, 2006

Daily Devotional: They said to Him, 'Rabbi . . . where are You staying?' He said to them, 'Come and see' -- John 1:38-39 Why aren't you a saint? It is either that you do not want to be a saint, or that you do not believe that God can make you into one. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 1:38-39 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:05:40 AM    comment []

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Daily Devotional: Come to Me . . . -- Matthew 11:28 If I will simply come to Jesus, my real life will be brought into harmony with my real desires. I will actually cease from sin, and will find the song of the Lord beginning in my life. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Matthew 11:28 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 5:48:02 AM    comment []

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . seek, and you will find . . . -- Luke 11:9 Have you ever lamented, expressing your sorrow before God for the condition of your inner life? There is no thread of self-pity left, only the heart-rending difficulty and amazement which comes from seeing what kind of person you really are. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Luke 11:9 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 4:43:12 AM    comment []

Thursday, June 8, 2006

Daily Devotional: If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them -- John 13:17 Put everything in your life afloat upon God, going out to sea on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and your eyes will be opened. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 13:17 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 3:44:23 AM    comment []

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Daily Devotional: Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do . . . -- John 14:13 If the central point, or the most powerful influence, of my life is the atonement of the Lord, then every aspect of my life will bear fruit for Him. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse John 14:13 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 7:04:44 AM    comment []

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Daily Devotional: . . . work out your own salvation . . . for it is God who works in you . . . -- Philippians 2:12-13 Do I believe that Almighty God is the Source of my will? God not only expects me to do His will, but He is in me to do it. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Philippians 2:12-13 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:13:56 AM    comment []

Monday, June 5, 2006

Daily Devotional: He Himself has said . . . . So we may boldly say . . . -- Hebrews 13:5-6 Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said? Take hold of the Father's assurance, and then say with strong courage, "I will not fear." -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Hebrews 13:5-6 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 6:14:24 AM    comment []

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Daily Devotional: He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you' -- Hebrews 13:5 Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again. -- Oswald Chambers Review verse Hebrews 13:5 through the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge verse browser. 8:37:05 AM    comment []

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