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Summary: The Best Daily Devotion Around!
Review: In my humble opinion, Chambers' gem is the best devotion ever published! This is my 15th straight year with this title and every year I learn something new. Chambers' insights are as relevant now as they were when originally written in the early 1900s.Admittingly, the updated version makes the devotion easier to digest as opposed to the original language. The format is excellent and has a good flow: brief heading at the top, a Bible verse, a one page summary for each day, and a date. The daily devotional will pierce your soul and make you really think about your walk with Jesus. I've tried other summaries and they pale in comparison to My Utmost for His Highest! Highly recommended - be ready to highlight and make notes. The devotion is an excellent supplement to the Bible.
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Summary: The best devotional book I've read.
Review: My father started reading this book when it first came out in the 1930's. My son and I have continued the tradition. It is the most focused, intelligent, thought-provoking and uplifting devotional book I've ever seen. The central point of each of the 365 daily pieces is always about the necessity for committment to Christ - not to Christ's work in the world, but to Christ Himself. It is amazing that one author has come up with 365 essays of such varied and inspiring quality. A bible verse accompanies each essay, and is the point of reference for the day's thoughts..
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Summary: This book will change your life
Review: My Utmost for His Highest was given to me over ten years ago as a gift. Since then, I have read it year after year, day after day, and it is brand new each time! God will speak to you in this amazing book. You will be encouraged to grow in your walk to a whole new level of maturity. After the Bible, this is the best gift you could give someone you love.
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Summary: A devotional worth having
Review: Of course, there's no substitute for having a devotion with the Word of God itself. But, right after this, one of the best things to help jumpstart your devotional is a good devotion book. My Utmost for His Highest is an obvious classic that you ought to consider. I personally have gone through it in three different years (the last time, 2 years ago), and I am considering it for the year 2001. Chambers has some keen insight that needs to be considered. If you struggle with mere reading through the Bible as your devotion, then perhaps this might be the ticket to beginning a daily commune with the God of all creation.
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Summary: A great Biblical supplement...
Review: One of my favorite books, this is second on my nightstand next to the Bible. A daily devotional, "My Utmost for His Highest" is broken down into daily one-page lessons mostly drawn from lectures given by Oswald Chambers at the Bible Training College, Clapham, during the years 1911-1915. Reading each page is like sitting in on a short philosophy lecture, very spiritually and intellectually engaging... Give it a try and see for yourself. Britt Gillette
Author of "Conquest of Paradise"
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Summary: Growing up in The Lord
Review: Oswald Chambers was a man who loved God and loved teaching. His teaching is astoundingly acute to our present day world. If you wish to gain growth knowledge on how much our Lord desires our intimate friendship and dependency on Him, add this devotional to your daily Bible study. You will read the daily entries for years and they will never speak to you in the same way twice.
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Summary: A Christian Army Chaplain Is An Oxymoron
Review: Oswald Chambers, British army chaplain..
if you had been teaching the words of Christ..
you would have told the soldiers to quit Egypt..
and to follow Jesus..
not the investors of Anglo Iranian Oil any chaplain who is truly doing his job
will be fired in God's heart chambers
.. with God's love amber How often, Oswald,
did you tell the British soldiers
that Jesus said to put down the sword
that Jesus said blessed are peacemakers
that Jesus' Father said Thou Shalt Not kill...
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Summary: The second most impacting book in my life in Christ.
Review: Other than the Bible, MY UTMOST has had far greater impact in my life than any other book. From his simple presentation to his understanding of deep truth, Chambers presents the living faith in Jesus as impossible without the lifelines of intimacy with and absolute surrender to Him.
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Summary: Anointed
Review: The book is truly and inspiring and annointed writing. The insight is full of depth in the Word of God. Easy to comprehend and put into practice. Very thought provoking. I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: INTERCESSION
Review: The copy I have, I received as a gift from my church, and actually I had been wanting one of my own. I used it religiously every day for a couple of years, day by day, along with my daily bible readings. This devotional certainly helps keep one focussed on things that really matter to God, things spiritual, eternal. The entry that really spoke to me the most was the one of March 31, a day significant to me in that it was the day my great grandmother Molly Hamilton Summers died. She was, to me, the epitome of true christian virtues. No one can even think of anything bad to say about her. She never cursed, never said bad things about anyone, never manipulated, never deceived. She is still a legend in our family which is a little strange because she didn't really do anything spectacular or significant in worldy terms. She died a decade and a half before I was born. I actually bought that copy from the christian bookstore that I was browsing in so moved by what I'd read.
Funny how the Spirit works, I guess at the time I was feeling judged, incompetent in my prayer life, and in my day to day walk with Christ. That entry has the heading Heedfulness vs. Hypocrisy in Ourselves, the verse from the bible, I John 5:16. Oswald Chambers writes "If we are not heedful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites...He reveals things so that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them...It is...that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede." Important stuff, because if we cannot do that we're not really reflecting the crucified Christ who died for all sin and for all time, and maybe one is not born of the Spirit of God if we cannot pray that way.
Oswald Chambers died of appendicitis in 1917 in Egypt serving Australian and New Zealand troops during WWI. And as his widow notes in a short foreword in my copy, these entries were compiled from various lectures and talks he gave several years before he died.
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