This is my favorite page.  Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest has been a constant companion and uplifter to me.  Let these passages from his book inspire, encourage, and teach you.
If you have ever had a vision from God, you may try as you will to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never allow it.
Love is the overflowing result of one person in true fellowship with another.  When love or the Spirit of God come upon a person, he is transformed.  He will then no longer insist on maintaining his individuality.  Once your rights to yourself are surrendered to God, your true personal nature begins responding to God immediately.
Sanctification means more than being freed from sin.  It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever the cost.
Anything that does not strengthen me morally is the enemy of virtue within me.  Morality does not happen by accident; moral virtue is acquired.  Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.
If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.  But nothing can ever change God or the reality of redemption.  Base your faith on that, and you are as eternally secure as God himself.
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself.
Never worry about whether what you say sounds humble before others or not.  But always be humble before God, and allow Him to be your all in all.  There is only one relationship that really matters, and that is your personal relationship to your personal Redeemer and Lord.  If you maintain that at all costs, letting everything else go, God will fulfill His purpose through your life.
Then, when I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me, "Do you believe this?", I find that faith is as natural as breathing.  And I am staggered when I think how foolish I have been in not trusting Him earlier.
When it comes to suffering, it is part of our Christian culture to want to know God's purpose beforehand.  People have sought to carry out God's orders through a short-cut of their own.  God's way is always the way of suffering-the way of the "long road home".
We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises--human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently.  But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.  It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God--but we do not.  We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people--and this is not learned in five minutes.
Never disregard a conviction that the Holy Spirit brings to you.  If it is important enough for the Spirit of God to bring it to you mind, it is the very thing He is detecting in you.  You were looking for some big thing to give up, while God is telling you of some tiny thing that must go.  But behind that tiny thing lies the stronghold of obstinacy.
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing, but in God-likeness.
The knowledge of our own poverty is what brings us to the proper place where Jesus Christ accomplishes His work.
Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me.  When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful--just the everyday activities of life--do I hear God's assurance even in these?
*The good is always the enemy of the best.*
There is no debating process once your conscience speaks.  Whatever it is--drop it, and see that you keep your inner vision clear.
Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.
You say, "I know I am right with God"--yet the "high places" still remain in your life.  There is still an area of disobedience.  Do you protest that your heart is right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt?  Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what it may be.  Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.
If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean refusing to do or even think certain things...and some things that are acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us.
 
 
 

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