Week Fifty-Two Question: Are you “determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone”?

Are you “determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone”?

“God’s order has to work up to a crisis in our lives because we will not heed the gentler way. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him, and we begin to debate; then He produces a providential crisis where we have to decide – for or against, and from that point the “Great Divide” begins. If the crisis has come to you on any line, surrender your will to Him absolutely and irrevocably” - Chambers Jan. 1

My Response:

The last entry in the Oswald Chambers Project is here. Hard to believe it has been one year since we began our journey. The questions asked were difficult – sometimes feeling impossible to our feeble wills.

The New Year is upon us with all its challenges and its hopes. May God bless you with His grace and peace as you continue to ask questions and seek answers.

Father-God, I give You my utmost for Your highest. Grant me Your mercy, Your grace, and Your wisdom as I continue to seek Your face.

Week Fifty-One Question: What are you haunted by?

What are you haunted by?

“The Psalmist says we are to be haunted by God (Psalm 25:12). The abiding consciousness of the life is to be God, not thinking about Him. The whole of our life inside and out is to be absolutely haunted by the presence of God…So we are to live and move and have our being in God, to look at everything in relation to God, because the abiding consciousness of God pushes itself to the front all the time” – Chambers June 2

My Response:

Chambers continues: “To be haunted by God is to have an effective barricade against all the onslaughts of the enemy…In tribulation, misunderstanding, slander, in the midst of all these things, if our life is hid with Christ in God, He will keep us at ease.”

Father-God, barricade me with Your love.

 

Week Fifty Question: Are you living the life now?

You have come to the place of entire reliance on the resurrection life of Jesus which brings you into perfect contact with the purpose of God. Are you living that life now? If not, why shouldn’t you?

“If anything is a mystery to you and it is coming in between you and God, never look for the explanation in your intellect, look for it in your disposition, it is that which is wrong” - Chambers  May 28

My Response:

Chambers continues:

“When once your disposition is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, the understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will get to the place where there is no distance between the Father and His child because the Lord has made you one, and ‘in that day ye shall ask Me no question.’”

Father-God, transfigure my disposition until all I see is You and Your will.

Week Forty-nine Question:

Is there a thought in your heart about anyone which you would not like to be dragged into the light?

“Never blunt the sense of your Utmost for His Highest. Many have gone back because they are afraid of looking at things from God’s standpoint” - Chambers September 15

My Response:

Chambers continues: “The great crisis comes spiritually when a man has to emerge a bit father on than the creed he has accepted.”

Father-God, take me always farther on.

Week Forty-eight Question

Are we freshly born this minute or are we stale, raking in our minds for something to do? Are you drawing your life from any other source than God Himself?

“If you are depending upon anything but Him, you will never know when He is gone” – Chambers Jan. 20

My Response:

Chambers writes: “Being born again of the Spirit is an unmistakable work of God, as mysterious as the wind, as surprising as God Himself…Staleness is an indication of something out of joint with God – ‘I must do this thing or it will never be done’…Guard jealously your relationship to God…Being born of the Spirit means much more than we generally take it to mean. It gives us a new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything by the perennial supply of the life of God.”

Father-God, I desire freshness and a deep sense of You in my life.