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: The secret of the missionary is - I am His, and He is carrying out His enterprises through me.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. “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.” The spirit that comes in is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him.
Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be “His.” I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple.
“If any man come to me and hate not…, he cannot be My disciple,” not - he cannot be good and upright, but - he cannot be one over whom Jesus writes the word “Mine.” Any one of the relationships Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. It was not until after the Resurrection, when the disciples had perceived by the power of the Holy Spirit Whom He was, that Jesus said “Go.” Our Lord never sent any of the disciples out on the ground of what He had done for them. The Holy Spirit expounds the nature of Jesus to me in order to make me one with my Lord, not that I might go off as a showroom exhibit. The true nature of the life in the actual whirl is the deliberate giving up of myself to another in sovereign preference, and that other is Jesus Christ. The missionary is one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought this realization - “Ye are not your own.” To say “I am not my own,” is to have reached a great point in spiritual nobility.
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