Biblical Truth for the Last Days

Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer, we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer. Oswald ChambersMore

“May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means? We take the word sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared to pay the cost of sanctification? The cost will be a deep restriction of…More

If I am depressed or burdened, I am to blame, not God or anyone else. Dejection stems from one of two sources – I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. Lust means “I must have it at once”. Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead…More

When a person’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to them. Spiritual truth is understood only by a pure heart, not by a sharp mind. It is not a question of mental ability, but of purity of heart. Oswald ChambersMore

“To open their eyes…that they may receive…” Acts 26:18 This verse is the grandest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all the New Testament. God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words – “that they may receive forgiveness of sins” (Acts 26:18). When…More

MY LIFE IS NOT FUTILE. MY FAILURES ARE NOT FATAL. MY DEATH IS NOT FINAL! IN CHRIST JESUS!!! AMEN!! By Max Lucado (with addition of last four words)More

It is not what a person does that is of final importance, but what they are in what they do. The atmosphere produced by a person, much more than their activities, has the lasting influence. Oswald ChambersMore

“You shall not go out with haste, … for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.” Isaiah 52:12 (NKJV) Security from Yesterday. “God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has…More

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Oswald ChambersMore

“Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brothers (and sisters), be tenderhearted, be courteous (and humble).” 1Peter 3:8 (NKJV) It would be a marvel to find in any community under heaven a complete expression of the instructions contained in this and the following verses. Yet nothing less…More