Arguments or Obedience?

Monday, September 14 , 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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 "...the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3).
SIMPLICITY IS the secret to seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly until a long time passes, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think through spiritual confusion to make things clear, you must obey. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will only think yourself into further wandering thoughts and more confusion. If there is something in your life upon which God ha put His pressure, then obey Him in that matter. Bring all your "arguments and...every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" regarding the matter, and everything will become as clear as daylight to you (II Corinthians 10:5). Your reasoning capacity will come later, but reasoning is not how we see. We see like little children, and when we try to be wise we see nothing. (Matthew 11:25).
   Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion, and spending all of our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered through obedience. As soon as we obey, we have discernment. This is humiliating, because when we are confused we know that the reason lies in the state of our mind. But when our natural power of sight is devoted and submitted in obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very power by which we perceive God's will, and our entire life is kept in simplicity.

After Surrender- Then What?

Sunday, September 13 , 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"I have finished the work which You have given Me to do"(John 17:4)
TRUE SURRENDER is not simply surrender of our eternal life but surrender of our will- and once that is done, surrender is complete. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Yet God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. And once that battle has been fought, it never needs to be fought again.
   Surrender for Deliverance. "Come to Me...and I will give you rest"(Matthew 11:28). It is only after we have begun to experience what salvation really means that we surrender our will to Jesus for rest. Whatever is causing us a sense of uncertainty is actually a call to our will- "Come to Me." And it is a voluntary coming.
   Surrender for Devotion. "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself..."(Matthew 16:24). The surrender here is of my self to Jesus, with His rest at the heart of my being. He says, "If you want to be My disciple, you must give up your right to yourself to Me." And once this is done, the remainder of your life will exhibit nothing but the evidence of this surrender, and you never need to be concerned again with what the future may hold for you. Whatever your  circumstances may be, Jesus is totally sufficient (see II Corinthians and Philippians 4:19).
   Surrender for Death. "...another will gird you..."(John 21:18; also see verse 19). Have you learned what it means to be girded for death? Beware of some surrender that you make to God in an ecstatic moment in your life, because you are apt to take it back again. True surrender is a matter of being "united together [with Jesus] In the likeness of His death"(Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him.
   And after you surrender- then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.

Going Through Spiritual Confusion

Saturday, September 12 , 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask" (Matthew 20:22).
THERE ARE times in your spiritual life when there is confusion, and the way out of it is not simply to say that you should not be confused. It is not a matter of right and wrong, but a matter of God taking you though a way that you temporarily do not understand. And it is only by going through the spiritual confusion that you will come to the understanding of what God wants for you.
The Shrouding of His Friendship (see Luke 11:5-8) Jesus gave the illustration here of a man who appears not to care for his friend. He was saying, in effect, that is how the heavenly Father will appear to you at times. You will think that He is an unkind friend, but remember- He is not. The time will come when everything will be explained. There seems to be a cloud on the friendship of the heart, and often even love itself has to wait in pain and tears for the blessing of fuller fellowship and oneness. When God appears to be completely shrouded, will you hang on with confidence in Him?
The Shadow of His Fatherhood (see Luke 11:11-13) Jesus said that there are times when your Father will appear as if He were an unnatural father, as if He we callous and indifferent- but remember, He is not. "Everyone who asks receives..."(Luke11:10) If all you see is a shadow on the face of the Father right now, hang on to the fact that He will ultimately give you clear understanding and will fully justify Himself in everything that He has allowed into your life.
The Strangeness of His Faithfulness (see Luke 18:1-8) "When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8) Will He find the kind of faith that counts on Him in spite of the confusion? Stand firm in faith, believing that what Jesus said is true, although in the meantime you do not understand what God is doing. He has bigger issues at stake than particular things you are asking of Him right now.

Missionary Weapons

Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"When you were under the fig tree, I saw you" (John 1:48).
WORSHIPPING in Everyday Occasions. We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us- it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, "If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion"? Yet you won't rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God's training ground. If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crisis always reveal a person's true character.
   A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. The time will come, as Nathanael experienced in this passage, that a private "fig tree" life will no longer be possible. Everything will be out in the open, an you will find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be ready. It is the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have become perfectly fit. And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can be relied upon by God.
   Are you saying, "But I can't be expected to live a sanctified life in my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study right now; besides my opportunity for battle hasn't come yet, but when it does, of course I will be ready"? No, you will not. If you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God's work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to those around you.
   God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Do It Yourself

Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ..." (II Corinthians 10:5)
DETERMINEDLY Discipline Other Things. This is another difficult aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul said, according to the Moffat translation of this verse,"...I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ..." So much Christian work today has never been disciplined, but has simply come into being by impulse! In our Lord's life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was never the slightest tendency to follow the impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father's will- "The Son can do nothing of Himself..." (John 5:19), Then compare this with what we do- we take "every thought" or project that comes to us by impulse and jump into action immediately, instead of imprisoning and disciplining ourselves to obey Christ.
   Practical work for Christians is greatly overemphasized today, and the saints who are "bringing every thought  [and project] into captivity" are criticized and told that they are not determined, and that they lack zeal for God or zeal for the souls of others. But true determination and zeal are found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that arises from our own undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not "bringing every though [and project] into captivity," but are simply doing work for God that has been instigated by their own human nature, and has not been made spiritual through determined discipline.
   We have a tendency to forget that a person is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation, but is also committed, responsible, and accountable to Jesus Christ's view of God, the world, and of sin and of the devil. This means that each person must recognize the responsibility to "be transformed by the renewing of [his] mind..." (Romans 12:2).

Do It Yourself

Tuesday, September 8, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God..." (II Corinthians 10:5).
DETERMINEDLY Demolish Some Things. Deliverance from sin is not the same as deliverance from human nature. There are certain things in human nature, such as prejudices, that the saint can only destroy through sheer neglect. But there are other things that have to be destroyed through violence, that is, through God's divine strength imparted by His Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but only to "stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord..."(Exodus 14:13). But every theory or thought that raises itself up as a fortified barrier "against the knowledge of God" is to be determinedly demolished by drawing on God's power, not through human effort or by compromise (see II Corinthians 10:4).
   It is only when God has transformed our nature and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin- Jesus Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily; nor does God intend that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. Theses choices are continually opposed and hostile to the things of our natural life which have become so deeply entrenched- the very things that raise themselves up as fortified barriers "against the knowledge of God." We can either turn back, making ourselves of no value to the kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things, allowing Jesus to bring another son to glory. (see Hebrews 2:10).
 

Fountains of Blessings

Monday, September 7, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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 The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14)
THE PICTURE our Lord described here is not that of a simple stream of water, but an overflowing fountain. Continue to "be filled" (Ephesians 5:18) and the sweetness of your vital relationship to Jesus will flow as generously out of you as it has been given to you. If you find that His life is not springing up as it should, you are to blame- something is obstructing the flow. Was Jesus saying to stay focused on the Source so that you may be blessed personally? No, you are to focus on the Source so that out of you "will flow rivers of ling water"- irrepressible life (John 7:38).
   We are to be fountains through which Jesus can flow as "rivers of living water" in blessing to everyone. Yet some of us are like the Dead Sea, always receiving but never giving, because our relationship is not right with the Lord Jesus. As surely as we receive blessings from Him, He will pour out blessings through us. But whenever the blessings are not being poured out in the same measure they are received, there is a defect in our relationship with Him. Is there anything between you and Jesus Christ? Is there anything hindering your faith in Him? If not, then Jesus says that out of you "will flow rivers of living water." It is not a blessing that you pass on, or an experience that you share with others, but a river that continually flows through you. Stay at the Source, closely guarding your faith in Jesus Christ and your relationship to Him, and there will be a steady flow into the lives of others with no dryness or deadness whatsoever.
   Is it excessive to say that rivers will flow out of one individual believer? Do you look at yourself and say, "But I don't see the rivers"? Through the history of God's work you will usually find that he has started with the obscure, the unknown, the ignored, but with those who have been steadfastly true to Jesus Christ.

The Far- Reaching Rivers of Life

Sunday, September 6, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He who believes in Me...out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38).
A RIVER REACHES places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8) regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow- "This is the work of God, that you believe..." (John 6:29). God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
   A river is victoriously persistent, overcoming all barriers. For a while it goes steadily on its course, but then comes to an obstacle. And for a while it is blocked, yet it soon makes a pathway around the obstacle. Or a river will drop out of sight for miles, only later to emerge again even broader and greater than ever. Do you see God using the lives of others, but an obstacle has come into your life and you do not seem  to be of any use to God? Then keep paying attention to the Source, and God will either take you around the obstacle or remove it. The river of the Spirit of God overcomes all obstacles. Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source. Never allow anything to come between you and Jesus Christ- not emotion nor experience-nothing must keep you from the one great sovereign Source.
   Think of the healing and far-reaching rivers developing and nourishing themselves in our souls! God has been opening up wonderful truths to our minds, and every point He has opened up is another indication of the wider power of the river that He will flow through us. If you believe in Jesus, you will find that God has developed and nourished in you mighty, rushing rivers of blessing for others.

Watching With Jesus

Saturday, September 5, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"Stay here and watch with Me" (Matthew 26:38)
"WATCH WITH ME." Jesus was saying, in effect, "Watch with no private point of view at all, but watch solely and entirely with Me." In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus we watch for  Him. We do not watch with Him through the revealed truth of the Bible even in the circumstances of our own lives. Our Lord is trying to introduce us to identification with Himself through a particular "Gethsemane" experience of our own. But we refuse to go, saying, "No, Lord, I can't see the meaning of this, and besides, it's very painful." And how can we possibly watch with Someone who is so incomprehensible? How are we going to understand Jesus sufficiently to watch with Him in His Gethsemane, when we don't even know why He is suffering? We don't know how to watch with Him- we are only used to the idea of Jesus watching with us.
   The disciples loved Jesus Christ to the limit of their natural capacity, but they did not fully understand His purpose. In the Garden of Gethsemane they slept as a result of their own sorrow, and at the end of three years of the closet and most intimate relationship of their lives they "all...forsook Him and fled" (26:56).
   "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit..." (Acts 2:4) "They" refers to the same people , but something wonderful has happened between these two events- our Lord's death, resurrection, and ascension- and the disciples have now been invaded and "filled with the Holy Spirit." Our Lord had said, "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you..."(Acts 1:8). This meant that they learned to watch with Him the rest of their lives.

Pouring Out the Water of Satisfaction

Thursday, September 3, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord"(II Samuel 23:16).
   WHAT HAS been like "water from the well of Bethlehem" to you recently- love, friendship, or maybe some spiritual blessing (23:16)? Have you taken whatever it may be, even at the risk of damaging your own soul, simply to satisfy yourself? If you have, then you cannot pour it out "to the Lord." You can never set apart for God something that you desire for yourself to achieve your own satisfaction. If you try to satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you. You must sacrifice it, pouring it out to God, something that your common sense says is an absurd waste.
   How can I pour out "to the Lord" natural love and spiritual blessings? There is only one way- I must make a determination in my mind to do so. There are certain things other people do that could never be received by someone who does not know God, because it is humanly impossible to repay them. As soon as I realize that something is too wonderful for me, that I am not worthy to receive it and that it is not meant for a human being at all, I must pour it out "to the Lord." Then these very things that have come to me will be poured out as "rivers of living water" all around me (John 7:38). And until I pour these things out to God, they actually endanger those I love, as well as myself, because they will be turned into lust. Yes, we can be lustful in things that are not sordid and vile. Even love must be transformed by being poured out "to the Lord."
   If you have become bitter and sour , it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning  to pour out anything "to the Lord," other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

A Life of Pure and Holy Sacrifice

Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"He  who believes in Me...out of his heart will flow..."(John 7:38)
JESUS did not say, "He who believes in Me will realize all the blessings of the fullness of God," but in essence, "He who believes in Me will have everything he receives escape out of him." Our Lord's teaching was always anti-self-realization. His purpose  is not the development of a person- His purpose is to make a person exactly like Himself, and the Son of God is characterized by self-expenditure. If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God's purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us. Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
   When Mary of Bethany "broke the flask...of very costly oil...an poured it on [Jesus'] head," it was an act for which no one else saw any special occasion; in fact, "...there were some who...said 'Why was this fragrant oil wasted?'" (Mark 14:3-4) But Jesus commended Mary for her extravagant act of devotion and said, "...wherever this gospel is preached...what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her" (Mark 14:9). Our Lord is filled with overflowing joy whenever He sees any of us doing what Mary did- not being bound by a particular set of rules, but being totally surrendered to Him. God poured out the life of His Son "that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:17). Are we prepared to pour out our lives for Him?
   "He who believes in Me...out of his heart will flow rivers of living water"- and hundreds of other lives will be continually refreshed. Now is the time for us to break "the flask" of our lives, to top seeking our own satisfaction, and to pour out our lives before Him. Our Lord is asking who of us will do it for Him?

Destined to Be Holy

Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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"...it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy'" (I Peter 1:16)
WE MUST continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness. Today we have far too many desires and interests, and our lives are being consumed and wasted by them. Many of them may be right, noble, and good, and may later be fulfilled, but in the meantime God must cause their importance to us to decrease. The only thing that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make him holy. At all costs, a person must have the right relationship with God.
   Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe that God can come into me and make me holy? If through your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I then resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it is designed to reveal my unholiness, but it also awakens an intense yearning and desire within me. God has only one intended destiny for mankind- holiness. His only goal is to produce saints. God is not some eternal blessing- machine for people to use, and He did not come to save us out of pity- He came to save us because He created us to be holy. Atonement through the Cross of Christ means that God can put me back into perfect oneness with Himself through the death of Jesus Christ, without a trace of anything coming between us any longer.
   Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind- placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life.