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God brings us to a standard of life by His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that standard in others.

Unless the worker lives a life hidden with Christ in God, he is apt to become an irritating dictator instead of an indwelling disciple. Many of us are dictators, we dictate to people and to meetings. Jesus never dictates to us in that way. We cast off certain restraints from activities we know are wrong.

We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating only out of our own hand, and doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path. Burn your bridges behind you, and stand committed to God by an act of your own will.

Never change your decisions, but be sure to make your decisions in the light of what you saw and learned on the mountain. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.

Have you been impoverishing the ministry of Jesus so that He cannot do anything? Jesus does not bring anything up from the wells of human nature. We impoverish His ministry the moment we forget He is Almighty; the impoverishment is in us, not in Him. The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.

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Latest 12 Nov Updated Daily. Weekly hand curated podcast episodes for learning Subscribe. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God's work. In the teachings of Jesus Christ, prayer is the working of the miracle of redemption in me, which produces the miracle of redemption in others, through the power of God. The way fruit remains firm is through prayer, but remember that it is prayer based on the agony of Christ in redemption, not on my own agony.

We must go to God as His child, because only a child gets his prayers answered; a "wise" man does not see Matthew Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are. However God may engineer your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never allow yourself this thought, "I am of no use where I am," because you certainly cannot be used where you have not yet been placed. Wherever God has placed you and whatever your circumstances, you should pray, continually offering up prayers to Him.

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 to pray. There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person's work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible.

And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God's perspective there are always results.

What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ. It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances; we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

And then He said, "Feed My sheep. The true test of my love for Jesus is a very practical one, and all 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 And 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 commonsense view of my life may seemingly deny that, and may appear to be declaring that He has no more power than the morning mist.

The key to the missionary's devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself. It does not mean simply being detached 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 is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally. The duty of a faithful missionary is to concentrate on keeping his soul completely and continually open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women our Lord sends out on His endeavors are ordinary human people, but people who are controlled by their devotion to Him, which has been brought about through the work of the Holy Spirit. Never allow this thought"I am of no use where I am," because you certainly can be of no use where you are not!

Wherever He has engineered your circumstances, pray. This work insists upon endless energy and activities, but no private life with God. The emphasis is put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation. For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you" Luke It is a hidden, obscure thing.

An active Christian worker too often lives to be seen by others, while it is the innermost, personal area that reveals the power of a person's life. We must get rid of the plague of the spirit of this religious age in which we live.

In our Lord's life there was none of the pressure and the rushing of tremendous activity that we regard so highly today, and a disciple is to be like His Master. The central point of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others. It is not the practical activities that are the strength of this Bible Training College its entire strength lies in the fact that here you are immersed in the truths of God to soak in them before Him.

You have no idea of where or how God is going to engineer your future circumstances, and no knowledge of what stress and strain is going to be placed on you either at home or abroad. And if you waste your time in overactivity, instead of being immersed in the great fundamental truths of God's redemption, then you will snap when the stress and strain do come.

But if this time of soaking before God is being spent in getting rooted and grounded in Him, which may appear to be impractical, then you will remain true to Him whatever happens.

Physical courage is grand, moral courage is grander, but the man who trusts Jesus Christ in the face of the terrific problems of life is worth a whole crowd of heroes. The Highest Good, R. Canada said:. Joined: Aug 29, Posts: 21, BUbearinARK said:. By Oswald Chambers This is the will of God, your sanctification 1 Thessalonians Sanctification is not a question of whether God is willing to sanctify me is it my will?

Am I willing to let God do in me everything that has been made possible through the atonement of the Cross of Christ? Am I willing to let Jesus become sanctification to me, and to let His life be exhibited in my human flesh? Beware of saying, "Oh, I am longing to be sanctified.

Recognize your need, but stop longing and make it a matter of action. Receive Jesus Christ to become sanctification for you by absolute, unquestioning faith, and the great miracle of the atonement of Jesus will become real in you.

All that Jesus made possible becomes mine through the free and loving gift of God on the basis of what Christ accomplished on the cross. And my attitude as a saved and sanctified soul is that of profound, humble holiness there is no such thing as proud holiness.

It is a holiness based on agonizing repentance, a sense of inexpressible shame and degradation, and also on the amazing realization that the love of God demonstrated itself to me while I cared nothing about Him see Romans He completed everything for my salvation and sanctification.

No wonder Paul said that nothing "shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him one with God, and it is accomplished only through the magnificent atonement of Christ. Never confuse the effect with the cause. The effect in me is obedience, service, and prayer, and is the outcome of inexpressible thanks and adoration for the miraculous sanctification that has been brought about in me because of the atonement through the Cross of Christ.

If only I had not got the kind of people I have to live with! If our faith or our religion does not help us in the conditions we are in, we have either a further struggle to go through, or we had better abandon that faith and religion.

The Shadow of an Agony, L. October 21 Impulsiveness or Discipleship? By Oswald Chambers But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith Jude 20 There was nothing of the nature of impulsive or thoughtless action about our Lord, but only a calm strength that never got into a panic.

Most of us develop our Christianity along the lines of our own nature, not along the lines of God's nature. Impulsiveness is a trait of the natural life, and our Lord always ignores it, because it hinders the development of the life of a disciple.

Watch how the Spirit of God gives a sense of restraint to impulsiveness, suddenly bringing us a feeling of self-conscious foolishness, which makes us instantly want to vindicate ourselves. Impulsiveness is all right in a child, but is disastrous in a man or woman an impulsive adult is always a spoiled person.

Impulsiveness needs to be trained into intuition through discipline. Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God.

Walking on water is easy to someone with impulsive boldness, but walking on dry land as a disciple of Jesus Christ is something altogether different. Peter walked on the water to go to Jesus, but he "followed Him at a distance" on dry land Mark We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently. But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.

It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people and this is not learned in five minutes. Our Lord emphasizes the attitude of a child; no attitude can express such solemn awe and familiarity as that of a child. Not Knowing Whither, L. October 22 The Witness of the Spirit By Oswald Chambers The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit Romans We are in danger of getting into a bargaining spirit with God when we come to Him we want the witness of the Spirit before we have done what God tells us to do.

Why doesn't God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won't abandon yourself to Him in total surrender.

Yet once you do, immediately God witnesses to Himself He cannot witness to you, but He instantly witnesses to His own nature in you. If you received the witness of the Spirit before the reality and truth that comes from obedience, it would simply result in sentimental emotion. But when you act on the basis of redemption, and stop the disrespectfulness of debating with God, He immediately gives His witness.

As soon as you abandon your own reasoning and arguing, God witnesses to what He has done, and you are amazed at your total disrespect in having kept Him waiting. If you are debating as to whether or not God can deliver from sin, then either let Him do it or tell Him that He cannot. Do not quote this or that person to Him.

Simply obey Matthew , "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden. The Spirit of God witnesses to the redemption of our Lord, and to nothing else.

He cannot witness to our reason. We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of redemption, never to our reason. If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty.

Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit. October 23 Nothing of the Old Life! By Oswald Chambers If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. We tend to think that God has some special interest in our particular prejudices, and are very sure that He will never deal with us as He has to deal with others.

We even say to ourselves, "God has to deal with other people in a very strict way, but of course He knows that my prejudices are all right. Instead of being on the side of our prejudices, He is deliberately removing them from us.

It is part of our moral education to see our prejudices put to death by His providence, and to watch how He does it. God pays no respect to anything we bring to Him.

There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender. When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new creation in us, and there will come a time when there is nothing remaining of the old life.

Our old gloomy outlook disappears, as does our old attitude toward things, and "all things are of God" 2 Corinthians I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord. Thank You for saving me. In Jesus' name I pray. Now you are fit to discover, know and walk in your destiny. No comments:.

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