Gospellife International - A Missionary organisation, Bristol (2026)

19/06/2026

19th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Service Of Passionate Devotion
Lovest thou Me?… Feed My sheep. JOHN 21:16

Jesus did not say — Make converts to your way of thinking, but look after My sheep, nourish them in the knowledge of Me. Our work for Christ we count as service; Jesus Christ calls service what we are to Him.

Discipleship is devotion to Jesus Christ, not service or adherence to a belief or creed. "If any man comes to Me and hates not…, he cannot be My disciple." There is no argument or compulsion, but simply — "If you would be My disciple, you must be devoted to Me." A man touched by the Spirit of God suddenly says, "Now I see Who Jesus is," that is the source of devotion.

Today, we have substituted credal belief for personal belief, which is why so many devote to a cause and so few to Jesus Christ. People do not want to be dedicated to Jesus but only to the cause He started.
Jesus Christ is a source of offence to the modern mind, not wanting Him in any way other than as a Comrade.

Obedience to the will of His Father was the first call of Jesus, not to the needs of men. Man's salvation was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father.
If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted to the point where my love will falter. But if I love Jesus Christ passionately, I can serve humanity even though I am treated as a doormat.
The secret of a disciple's life is devotion to Je
sus Christ, and its characteristic is unobtrusiveness. It is like a corn of wheat that falls into the ground and dies, but soon it will spring up and alter the landscape (John 12:24).

Bible in One Year: Nehemiah 12–13; Acts 4:23–37

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The prophets' message is that, although they have forsaken God, God has not been altered. The Apostle Paul emphasises the same truth: God remains God even when we are unfaithful (see 2 Timothy 2:13). Never interpret God as changing with our changes. He never does; there is no variableness in Him.

18/06/2026

18th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Keep Recognising Jesus
… Peter… walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid … Matthew 14:29-30

The wind was boisterous, and the waves were high, but Peter didn’t see them at first. He did not consider them at all; he recognised his Lord, stepped out in recognition of Him, and “walked on the water.” Then he began to take those things around him into account, and instantly he went down. Why could our Lord not enable him to walk at the bottom of the waves, as well as on top? Peter could have, but not do without the continuous recognition of the Lord Jesus.

If you truly recognise your Lord, you have no business being concerned about how and where He engineers your circumstances. The things surrounding you are real, but when you look at them, you are immediately overwhelmed and unable to recognise Jesus. Then comes His rebuke, “…why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31). Let your actual circumstances be what they may, but keep recognising Jesus, maintaining complete reliance upon Him.

Never debate for even one second when God has spoken. Never say, “Well, I wonder if He really did speak to me?” Immediately be reckless, totally unrestrained, willing to risk everything, cast your all upon Him. You do not know when His voice will come to you, but whenever the realisation of God comes, even in the faintest way imaginable, be determined to abandon yourself recklessly, surrendering everything to Him. Only through the abandonment of yourself and your circumstances will you recognise Him. You will only recognise His voice more clearly through recklessness— being willing to risk everything.

Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 10-11; Acts 4:1-22

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging; therefore, the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

17/06/2026

17th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Beware of Criticising Others.
Judge not, that you be not judged. —Matthew 7:1

The instructions of Jesus concerning judging others are: Do not!
The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm, nothing is gained by it. Criticism only divides the strengths of the one criticised. The Holy Spirit is the only one in the proper position to criticise, and He alone can show what is wrong without hurting and wounding.

It is impossible to fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism only makes you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, leaving you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others. Jesus says that as His disciple, you should cultivate a temperament that is never critical. It will take time to happen, but it must be developed over time. You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as superior.

There is no escaping the penetrating search of my life by Jesus. Seeing the little speck in your eye means I have a plank in mine. (see Matthew 7:3-5). Every wrong thing that I see in you, God finds in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans 2:17-24). Stop having a measuring stick for other people. In every person, there is always at least one more fact we don't know. The first thing God does is to give us a thorough spiritual cleansing. After that, there is no possibility of pride remaining in us. After discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God. I have never met anyone I could ever despair of or lose all hope for.

Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 7-9; Acts 3

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in our constant need to vindicate ourselves.

16/06/2026

16th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

“Will You Lay Down Your Life?”
Greater love has no one than this than to lay down one’s life for his friends….I have called you friends… —John 15:13, 15

Jesus does not ask me to die for Him but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, “I will lay down my life for Your sake,” and he meant it (John 13:37).

For us to be incapable of making the same statement Peter made would be a bad thing—our sense of duty is fully realised through our understanding of heroism. Has the Lord ever asked you, “Will you lay down your life for My sake?” (John 13:38). It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day by day with the sense of God’s high calling.
We are not made for bright, shining moments, but in our everyday ways we must walk in the knowledge of them.

The Mount of Transfiguration was the one bright-shining moment in the life of Jesus; there, He emptied Himself of His glory for the second time, and then came down into the demon-possessed valley (Mark 9:1-29). For thirty-three years, Jesus laid down His life to do His Father’s will. “By this, we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 John 3:16).

If I am a friend of Jesus, I must deliberately lay down my life for Him. It is difficult to do, and thank God it is. Salvation is easy for us because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is not easy. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, “Now work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me.” Jesus tells us, “…I have called you friends….” Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honour is at stake in your bodily life.

Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 4-6; Acts 2:22-47

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The main characteristic, the proof of the indwelling Spirit, is amazing tenderness in personal dealing and blazing truthfulness about God’s Word.
There is no allowance in the New Testament for the person who says he is saved by grace but does not produce the graceful goods. Jesus Christ, by His Redemption, can make our actual life conform to our religious profession.

15/06/2026

15th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Get Moving! (2)
Also…add to your faith… —2 Peter 1:5

Of the matter of drudgery (hard, tedious work). Peter said in this passage that we have become "partakers of the divine nature" and that we should now be "giving all diligence" to form godly habits (2 Peter 1:4-5). We are to "add" to our lives all that character means. No one is born naturally or supernaturally with character; we must develop it. Nor are we born with habits— we have to form godly habits based on the new life God has placed within us.

We are not to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples but as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. Drudgery is the test of genuine character. The greatest hindrance in our spiritual life is that we often look only for big things to do. Yet, "Jesus…took a towel and…began to wash the disciples' feet…" (John 13:3-5).

We all have those times when there are no flashes of light and no apparent thrill to life, when we experience nothing but the daily routine with its common everyday tasks.
The routine of life is God's way of saving us between our times of great inspiration, which comes from Him. Don't always expect God to give you His thrilling moments; learn to live in the common times of life's drudgery by the power of God.

It is difficult for us to do the "adding," as Peter mentioned here. We say we do not expect God to take us to heaven on flowery beds of ease, yet we act as if we do! I must realise that my obedience, even in the smallest detail of life, has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.

If I will do my duty, not for duty's sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience, all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ.

Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 1-3; Acts 2:1-21

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

14/06/2026

14th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Get Moving! (1)
Abide in Me… —John 15:4

The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then must patiently build my thinking into perfect harmony with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus— I must do it myself. I must submit “every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). “Abide in Me”— in intellectual matters, in money, in every one of the matters that make life what it is. Our lives are not made up of a single neatly confined area.

Am I preventing God from doing things in my circumstances by saying it will only hinder my fellowship with Him? How irrelevant and disrespectful that is! It does not matter what they are.
I can be as assured of abiding in Jesus in any of them as in any prayer meeting. It is unnecessary to change and arrange my circumstances myself.

Our Lord’s inner abiding was pure and unblemished. He was at home with God wherever He was. He never chose His circumstances but submitted to His Father’s plans and directions. Just think of how amazingly relaxed our Lord’s life was! But we tend to keep God at a fever pitch in our lives. We have none of the serenity of the life which is “hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

Think of the things that take you out of the position of abiding in Christ. You say, “Yes, Lord, just a minute— I still have this to do. Yes, I will abide as soon as this is finished or by the end of this week. It will be all right, Lord. I will abide then.”
Get moving— begin to abide now. In the initial stages, abiding will be a continual effort, but as you continue, it will become such a part of your life that you will abide in Him without any conscious effort. Determine to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or in the future.

Bible in a Year: Ezra 9-10; Acts 1

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is nothing that makes us lose heart quicker than decay—the decay of bodily beauty, of natural life, of friendship, of associations, all these things make a man lose heart; but Paul says when we are trusting in Jesus Christ, these things do not find us discouraged, light comes through them.

13/06/2026

13th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Getting There (3)
…come, follow Me. —Luke 18:22

Where our desire dies, and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances to coming to Jesus is the excuse of our unique temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realise when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention to our natural desires.

We believe that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. You can dedicate only one thing to God: your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you— and His experiments always succeed.
The true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from complete surrender to Jesus Christ.

In the life of a saint, there is this amazing Well, which is a continual source of original life. The Spirit of God is a Well of water springing up perpetually fresh.
A saint realises that God engineers his circumstances; consequently, there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.

If you abandon everything to Jesus and come when He says, “Come,” then He will continue to say, “Come,” through you. You will go out into the world reproducing the echo of Christ’s “Come.” That results in every soul who has abandoned all and come to Jesus.
Have I, or will I come to Him now?

Bible in a Year: Ezra 6-8; John 21

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One Who is leading.

12/06/2026

12th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Getting There (2)
They said to Him, "Rabbi…where are You staying?" He said to them, "Come and see." —John 1:38-39

Where our self-interest sleeps, and genuine interest is awakened.

"They…remained with Him that day…." That is all some of us ever do. We stay with Him for a short time, only to wake up to life's realities. Our self-interest rises, and our abiding with Him is past. Yet there is no circumstance in which we cannot abide in Jesus.

"You are Simon….You shall be called Cephas" (John 1:42). God writes our new name only where He has erased pride, self-sufficiency, and self-interest. Some of us have our new name written only in certain places, like spiritual measles. In those areas we look all right. When in our best spiritual mood, you would think we are saints. But do not look at us when we are not in that mood. With a true disciple, the new name is written all over him; self-interest, pride, and self-sufficiency have been erased.

Pride is the sin of making self our god. Some of us do this, not like the Pharisee, but like the tax collector (see Luke 18:9-14). To say, "Oh, I'm no saint," may be acceptable by human standards, but it is unconscious blasphemy against God. You defy God to make you a saint, as if saying, "I am too weak, hopeless, and beyond the reach of Christ's atonement." Why aren't you a saint? Either you do not want to be one or do not believe God can make you one. You say it would be all right if God saved you and took you straight to heaven. That is precisely what He will do! Not only do we make our home with Him, but Jesus said, "...We will come to him and make Our home with him" (John 14:23). Put no conditions on your life—let Jesus be everything to you, and He will take you home with Him not only for a day but for eternity.

Bible in One Year: Ezra 3-5; John 20

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We have no right to judge where He should put us or have preconceived notions about what God is fitting us for. God engineers everything; wherever He puts us, our one aim is to pour out our wholehearted devotion to Him in that work. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

11/06/2026

11th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

Getting There (1)
Come to Me… —Matthew 11:28

Where sin and sorrow stop, and the song of the saint starts.
Do I want to get there? I can right now. The questions that truly matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by these words— "Come to Me." Our Lord's words are not, "Do this, or don't do that," but— "Come to me." If I come to Jesus, my real life will be in harmony with my true desires. I will cease from sin and find the Lord's song beginning in my life.

Have you ever come to Jesus? Look at the stubbornness of your heart. You would do anything besides this simple childlike thing— "Come to Me." If you want to experience the ceasing of sin, you must come to Jesus.
Jesus Christ makes Himself the test to determine your genuineness. Look at how He used the word 'come'. At the most unexpected moments in your life, there is this whisper of the Lord— "Come to Me," and you are drawn to Him immediately. Personal contact with Jesus changes everything. Be "foolish" enough to come, commit yourself and come to what He says.

The attitude necessary for you to come to Him is one where your will has been determined to let go of everything and deliberately commit it all to Him.
"…and I will give you rest"— that is, "I will sustain you, causing you to stand firm." He is not saying, "I will put you to bed, hold your hand, and sing you to sleep." But, in essence, He is saying, "I will get you out of bed— out of your listlessness and exhaustion, and out of your condition of being half-dead while you are still alive. I will pe*****te you with the spirit of life, and the perfection of vital activity will sustain you." Yet we become so weak and pitiful and talk about "suffering" the will of the Lord! Where is the majestic vitality and the power of the Son of God in that?

Bible in a Year: Ezra 1-2; John 19:23-42

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The truth is, we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all, and we are more than conquerors through Him. The worker's sense of heroics in recognising this truth is not flattering, but it is amazingly glorifying to the work of Christ.

10/06/2026

10th June – Daily Devotion
My Utmost for His Highest

And After That, What's Next To Do?
…seek, and you will find… —Luke 11:9

Seek if you have not found. "You ask and do not receive, (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, "you ask amiss"; that is, you ask out of your desire for self-fulfilment. The more you are fulfilled, the less you will seek God. "…seek, and you will find…." Get to work— narrow your focus and interests to this one thing. Have you ever sought God with your whole heart? Or just a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience? "…seek, [focus], and you will find…."

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters…" (Isaiah 55:1). Are you thirsty or complacent and indifferent— so satisfied with your own experience that you want nothing more of God? Experience is a doorway, not a final goal. Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true but will only sound the note of a critical spirit. Remember that you can never give another person what you have found, but you can cause him to desire it.

"…knock, and it will be opened to you" (Luke 11:9). "Draw near to God…" (James 4:8). Knock— the door is closed, and your heartbeat races as you knock. "Cleanse your hands…" (James 4:8). Knock a bit louder— you begin to find you are dirty. "…purify your hearts…" (James 4:8). It is becoming even more personal— you are seriously desperate. Now! You will do anything. "Lament…" (James 4:9). Have you ever lamented, expressing your sorrow before God for the condition of your inner life? There is no thread of self-pity left, only the heart-rending difficulty and amazement that comes from seeing what kind of person you are. "Humble yourselves…" (James 4:10). It is a humbling experience to knock at God's door— you have to knock with the crucified thief. "…to him who knocks it will be opened" (Luke 11:10).

Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 34-36; John 19:1-22

WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
No one could have had a more sensitive understanding of love in human relationships than Jesus, yet He says there are times when love for one's father and mother must be set aside in comparison to our love for Him.

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