Gospellife International - A Missionary organisation, Bristol (2026)

20/10/2026

October 20th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

Is God’s Will My Will?
This is the will of God, even your sanctification. — 1 Thessalonians 4:3

It is not a question of whether God is willing to sanctify me; it is whether I am willing.
Am I willing to let God do in me all that the Atonement has made possible?
Am I willing to let Jesus be made sanctification to me and to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in my mortal flesh? Beware of saying — "Oh, I am longing to be sanctified." You are not; stop longing and make it a matter of transaction — "Nothing in my hands I bring." Receive Jesus Christ to sanctify you in implicit faith, and the great marvel of the Atonement will be made real in you.

All that Jesus made possible is made mine by God's free, loving gift, based on what He performed. My attitude as a saved and sanctified soul is of profound humble holiness (there is no such thing as proud holiness). Holiness based on agonising repentance and a sense of unspeakable shame and degradation; and the amazing realisation that the love of God commended itself to me in that while I cared nothing about Him, He completed everything for me, my salvation and sanctification (see Romans 5:8).

No wonder Paul says nothing is "able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:39). Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him, one with God, and it is done only through the superb Atonement of Christ. Never put the effect as the cause. The result in me is obedience, service and prayer. It is the outcome of speechless thanks and adoration for the marvellous sanctification wrought in me by the Atonement.

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 59-61; 2 Thessalonians 3

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
One can know all about doctrine and still not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

19/10/2026

October 19th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

The Unheeded Secret
My kingdom is not of this world. — John 18:36

The greatest enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ today is the idea of practical work that comes not from the New Testament but from the world's systems, which insist on endless energy and activity but no private life with God.
The emphasis is put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;…for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you," a hidden, obscure thing.
An active Christian worker too often lives in the shop window. The innermost of the innermost reveals the power of life.

To be like the master, the disciple must eliminate this plague of the spiritual-religious age we live in. In Our Lord's life, there was none of the press and rush of the tremendous activity we regard so highly.

The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men. Strength does not come from practical activities; our 'whole' strength comes from soaking before God.
You have no idea where God will engineer your circumstances or what strain He will put on you at home or abroad.
If you waste your time in overactive energies instead of soaking in the great fundamental truths of God's Redemption, you will snap when the strain comes. If you take time to soak before God, getting rooted and grounded in God on the impractical line, you will remain true to Him, whatever happens.

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 56-58; 2 Thessalonians 2

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is easy to argue from precedent because it makes everything simple, but risky. Give God "elbow room"; let Him come into His universe as He pleases. If we confine God's work to religious people or specific ways, we place ourselves on equal footing with God.

18/10/2026

October 18th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

The Key to the Missionary’s Devotion
…they went forth for His name’s sake… 3 JOHN 7

Our Lord told us how our love for Him should exhibit itself when He asked, “Do you love Me?” (John 21:17), and then He said, “Feed My sheep.” Jesus says, “Identify yourself with My interests in other people,” not “Identify Me with your interests in other people.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 shows us the characteristics of this love— the love of God expressing itself. The true test of my love for Jesus should be practical; the rest is sentimental talk.

Faithfulness to Jesus Christ is the supernatural work of Redemption that has been performed in me by the Holy Spirit. “the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit…” ( Romans 5:5). It is that love in me that effectively works through me and comes in contact with everyone I meet.
I remain faithful to His name, even though the common-sense view of my life may seem to deny that and suggest He has no more power than the morning mist.

The key to the missionary’s devotion is that he is attached to nothing and no one except our Lord Himself, but it does not mean being apart from the external things surrounding us. Our Lord was amazingly in touch with the ordinary things of life, but He had an inner detachment, except toward God. External detachment often hides a secret, growing inner attachment to the things we avoid externally.

A faithful missionary must keep his soul entirely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women our Lord sends out on His endeavours are ordinary human beings, but people guided by their devotion to Him brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 53-55; 2 Thessalonians 1

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We should choose our books as carefully as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so we do our best to keep up with them.

17/10/2026

October 17th - Dailey Devotions
My Utmost for His Highest

The Key of the Greater Work
…I say to you, he who believes in Me,…greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. JOHN 14:12

Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some common-sense exercise of our higher powers that prepares us for God's work.
In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer works the miracle of redemption in me, producing the miracle of redemption in others through the power of God. Fruit remains firm through prayer, but remember that prayer is based on Christ's agony in redemption, not my own. We must go to God as His child because only a child gets his prayers answered; a "wise" man does not (see Matthew 11:25).

Prayer is the battle, and no matter where you are or how God engineers your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never let yourself think, "I am of no use where I am," because you cannot be used where you have not yet been placed. Wherever God has placed you, and whatever your circumstances, you should pray, continually offering prayers to Him. And He promises, "Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do…" (John 14:13). Yet we refuse to pray unless it thrills or excites us, which is the most intense form of spiritual selfishness. We must learn to work according to God's direction, and He says, "Pray." "Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest" (Matthew 9:38).

Nothing is thrilling about a labourer's work, but the labourer makes the genius's ideas possible. The labouring saint makes the ideas of his Master possible.
From God's perspective, labouring in prayer always yields results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is lifted, all the souls you have reaped simply because you have made it a habit to take your orders from Jesus Christ.

Bible in One Year: Isaiah 50-52; 1 Thessalonians 5

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ reveals not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

16/10/2026

October 16th – Daily Devotions
My Utmost for His Highest

The Key To The Master's Orders
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest. MATTHEW 9:38

The key to the missionary's difficult task is in God's hand; the key is in prayer, not work—that is, not the work as in today's interpretation, which shifts our focus away from God. The key to the missionary's difficult task is not common sense, medicine, education, or even evangelisation. The key is in prayer and following the Master's orders. "Pray the Lord of the harvest…." Naturally, prayer is not practical; it is absurd. We must realise that, from an ordinary, common-sense point of view, prayer is stupid.

In Jesus Christ's outlook, there are no nations but the world. He owns the harvest produced through distress and the conviction of sin; this is the harvest we must pray for. Pray that labourers are sent out to reap. We stay busy while people around us are ripe and ready to be harvested; we don't reap one, but waste our Lord's time in over-energised activities and programs. Suppose a crisis came into your father's or your brother's life— are you there as a labourer to reap the harvest for Jesus Christ? Or is your response, "Oh, but I have a special work to do!" No Christian has a 'special' work to do. A Christian is Jesus Christ's own, "a servant [who] is not greater than his master" (John 13:16), and someone who does not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. There is no particular work our Lord calls us to. — He calls us to Himself. "Pray the Lord of the harvest," He will engineer your circumstances to send you out as His labourer.

Bible in One Year: Isaiah 47-49; 1 Thessalonians 4

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We can understand God's attributes in many ways, but we understand the Father's heart only through the Cross of Christ.

15/10/2026

October 15th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

The Key to the Missionary's Message
He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 JOHN 2:2

The key to the missionary message is Christ Jesus' propitiation—His sacrifice for us, which completely satisfied God's wrath. Look at any other aspect of Christ's work, whether it is healing, saving, or sanctifying, and you will see that none of them is limitless. But—"The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"—that is limitless (John 1:29).

The missionary's message is the infinite importance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary is a person immersed in the truth of that revelation.
The real key to the missionary's message is the "remissionary" aspect of Christ's life, not His kindness, goodness, or even His revealing of the fatherhood of God to us. "…repentance and remission of sins should be preached…to all nations…" ( Luke 24:47).

The most important message is that "He Himself is the propitiation for our sins…." The missionary's message is not nationalistic, favouring nations or individuals; it is "for the whole world." When the Holy Spirit comes into me, He does not consider my partialities or preferences; He brings me into oneness with the Lord Jesus.

A missionary is a person, who is bound by marriage to the stated mission and purpose of his Lord and Master. He is not to proclaim his selfish point of view but is only to proclaim "the Lamb of God." It is easier to belong to a faction that only tells what Jesus Christ has done for me, to become a devotee of divine healing, a unique type of sanctification, or the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Paul did not say, "Woe is me if I do not preach what Christ has done for me," but, "…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16). And this is the gospel— "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 45-46; 1 Thessalonians 3

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ reveals not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man

14/10/2026

October 14th – Daily Devotions
My Utmost for His Highest

The Key To The Missionary
All power is given unto Me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations. — Matthew 28:18-20

The basis of missionary appeals is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the heathen.
We are apt to see Our Lord as the One who assists us in our enterprises for God. Our Lord puts Himself as the absolute Sovereign, supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say the heathen will be lost if we do not go; He says — "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations." Go on the revelation of My sovereignty; teach and preach from My living experience.

"Then the eleven disciples went…into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them" (v. 16). If I want to know Christ's universal sovereignty, I must know Him and learn to be alone with Him for myself. I must take time to worship the One whose name I bear.
"Come unto Me" — that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you weary and heavy-laden? How many missionaries are weary and heavy-laden? We banish those marvellous words of the universal Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an after-meeting; they are Jesus's words to His disciples.

"Go therefore…" "Go" means 'live'. Acts 1:8 describes how to go. Jesus did not say — Go into Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, but "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me" in all these places. He undertakes to establish the goings.
"If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you…" — That is the way to keep going in our personal lives. Where we are placed is indifferent; God engineers the goings. "None of these things move me…." That is how to keep going till you're gone!

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 43-44; 1 Thessalonians

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ is always unyielding to my claim to my right to myself. The one essential element in all our Lord's teachings about discipleship is abandonment, no calculation and no trace of self-interest.

13/10/2026

October 13th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

Individual Discouragement And Personal Enlargement
Moses… went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens. — Exodus 2:11

Moses saw his people's oppression and felt sure he was the one to deliver them; in the righteous indignation of his spirit, he began to right their wrongs. After the first strike for God and what was right, God let Moses be driven into discouragement; He sent him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared and told Moses to go and bring forth His people, and Moses said, "Who am I, that I should go?" At first, Moses realised he was the man to deliver the people, but God had to train and discipline him first. He was right in the individual sense, but he wasn't the man for the work until he learned communion with God.

We may have the vision of God and a clear understanding of what God wants, and we start to do the thing; then comes something equivalent to the forty years in the wilderness; it is as if God had ignored the whole thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives the call. We get the quiver in and say — "Oh, who am I?" We have to learn the first great stride of God — "I AM THAT I AM…hath sent me." We have to realise that our individual, selfish effort for God is disrespectful; our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God so that He may be "well pleased" (Matthew 3:11). We fix on the individual aspect of things; we have the vision — "This is what God wants me to do"; but we are not in God's stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, a significant personal enlargement lies ahead.

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 41-42; 1 Thessalonians 1

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
For those who have had no agony, Jesus says, "I have nothing for you; stand on your own feet, square your shoulders. I have come for the man who knows he has a bigger handful than he can cope with, who knows there are forces he cannot touch; I will do everything for him if he will let Me. Only let a man grant he needs it, and I will do it for him."

12/10/2026

October 12th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

Getting Into God's Stride
Enoch walked with God. — Genesis 5:24

The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in life's exceptional moments, but what he does in ordinary times, when nothing is tremendous or exciting.
A man's worth is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when not before the footlights. (Cf. John 1:36.)
It is a painful business to get through into the stride of God; it means getting your "second wind" spiritually. Learning to walk with God always involves the difficulty of getting into His stride, but once we are in it, only the life of God manifests.

It is hard to stride with God because when we start walking with Him, we find He has outstripped us before we have taken three steps. He has different ways of doing things; we must be trained and disciplined in His ways. It was said of Jesus, "He shall not fail nor be discouraged," because He never worked from His standpoint but always from His Father's perspective, and we must learn to do the same. We learn Spiritual truth in the atmosphere of being, not by intellectual reasoning. God's Spirit alters the atmosphere of how we see things, and things become possible that never were before.

Getting into the stride of God means nothing less than union with Himself. It takes a long time to get there - keep at it. Don't give in because the pain is bad just now; get on with it, and before long, you will find you have a new vision and a new purpose.

Bible in a Year: Isaiah 39-40; Colossians 4

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We all base our lives on a conception of importance, either our own or that of others; Jesus tells us to go and teach based on the revelation of His importance. "All power is given unto Me... Go ye therefore …."

11/10/2026

October 11th – Daily Devotions
My utmost for His Highest

After God’s Silence – What?
When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days in the same place where he was. John 11:6

Has God trusted you with a silence—a silence big with meaning? God's silences are His answers. Think of those days of absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there anything analogous to those days in your life? Can God trust you like that, or are you still asking for a visible answer? God will give you the blessings you ask for if you will not go any further without them, but His silence shows He is bringing you into a marvellous understanding of Himself.

Are you mourning before God because you haven't heard an audible response? You will find that God has trusted you in the most intimate way possible, in absolute silence, not despair, but pleasure, because He saw you could stand a bigger revelation.
If God has given you silence, praise Him, and He is bringing you into the great run of His purposes. Manifesting the answer in time is a matter of God's sovereignty. Time is nothing to God. For a while, you say — "I asked God to give me bread, and He gave me a stone." He did not, and today you find He gave you the bread of life.

A wonderful thing about God's silence is that His stillness infects you, and you become perfectly confident—"I know God has heard me." His silence proves that He has. As long as you know God will bless you in answer to prayer, He will, but He will never give you the grace of silence. If Jesus Christ is leading you to understand that prayer is to glorify His Father, He will give you the first sign of His intimacy—silence.

Bible in One Year: Isaiah 37-38; Colossians 3

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Living a life alone with God does not mean living it apart from everyone else. The Bible continually reveals the connection between godly men and women and those associated with them, e.g., 1 Timothy 4:10.

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