My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
Week 10: The Holy Spirit
Read selected entries from My Utmost for His Highest on the Holy Spirit and sanctification (e.g., April–May entries). Key verses: John 14:16–17, 26; Acts 1:8; Galatians 5:16–25.
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Chambers was deeply shaped by the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition's emphasis on the Spirit's sanctifying work, and he calls us toward a fullness of the Spirit that goes far beyond our typical experience.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Chambers speaks of the Holy Spirit not as a theological category but as a present, personal reality — the very life of God within the believer. How personal is the Holy Spirit to you? Does He feel like a doctrine or a Person?
2.He argues that the Spirit's primary work is not to give us spiritual gifts or supernatural experiences but to make us holy — to conform us to the image of Christ. Does this rebalance or challenge the way your tradition emphasizes the Spirit's work?
3.Chambers speaks of being "filled" with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) as an ongoing, renewable act of surrender rather than a one-time experience. What are the conditions he associates with being continuously filled? What drains that fullness?
a.What in your life regularly "grieves" or "quenches" the Spirit (Ephesians 4:30, 1 Thessalonians 5:19)?
b.What practices help you stay in step with the Spirit day to day?
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