My Utmost for His Highest We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. – Romans – 8:26 We realize that we are energized…
Partakers of His Sufferings
My Utmost for His Highest Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings. – 1 Peter 4:13 If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant…
The Authority of Reality
My Utmost for His Highest Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. – James 4:8 It is essential to give people a chance of acting on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with…
A Bond-Slave of Jesus
My Utmost for His Highest I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. – Galatians 2:20 These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and surrendering to the…
Authority and Independence
My Utmost for His Highest If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. – John 14:15 (R.V.) Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us very emphatically what we ought to do, but He never takes means to…
Ye Are Not Your Own
My Utmost for His Highest Know ye not that. . . ye are not your own? – 1 Corinthians 6:19 There is no such thing as a private life-‘a world within the world’-for a man or woman who is brought…
Discernment of Faith
My Utmost for His Highest Faith as a grain of mustard seed. . . . – Matthew 17:20 We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be so in the initial stages; but we do…
Substitution
My Utmost for His Highest He hath made Him to be sin for us, . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God. . . . – 2 Corinthians 5:21 The modern view of the death of…
Justification by Faith
My Utmost for His Highest For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. – Romans 5:10 I am not saved…
The Method of Missions
My Utmost for His Highest Go ye therefore and teach (disciple) all nations. – Matthew 28:19 Jesus Christ did not say-‘Go and save souls’ (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but-“Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all…
What is a Missionary?
My Utmost for His Highest As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. – John 20:21 A missionary is one sent by Jesus Christ as He was sent by God. The great dominant note is not the…
The External Crush of Things
My Utmost for His Highest I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. – 1 Corinthians 9:22 A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s noble man or woman amid…
Not a Bit of It!
My Utmost for His Highest If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away. – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine…
The Witness of the Spirit
My Utmost for His Highest The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit. . . – Romans 8:16 (R.V.). We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have…