Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His
Highest – Tuesday, 3 December 2013 “Not By Might Nor By Power”
And my speech and my preaching was not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power.(1 Corinthians 2:4)
If in preaching the Gospel you substitute
your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the
Gospel, you hinder people getting to Reality. You have to see that while you
proclaim your knowledge of the way of salvation, you yourself are rooted and
grounded in faith in God. Never rely on the clearness of your exposition, but
as you give your exposition see that you are relying on the Holy Spirit. Rely
on the certainty of God’s redemptive power, and He will create His own life in
souls.
When once you are rooted in Reality,
nothing can shake you. If your faith is in experiences, any thing that happens
is likely to upset that faith; but nothing can ever upset God or the almighty
Reality of Redemption; base your faith on that, and you are as eternally secure
as God. When once you get into personal contact with Jesus Christ, you will
never be moved again. That is the meaning of sanctification. God puts His
disapproval on human experience when we begin to adhere to the conception that
sanctification is merely an experience, and forget that sanctification itself
has to be sanctified (see John 17:19). I have deliberately to give my
sanctified life to God for His service, so that He can use me as His hands and
His feet
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