The Initiative Against Dreaming

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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     "Arise. let us go hence." John 14:31 Dreaming about something in order to correct is only right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. You must be willing to put the dream to action. After our Lord had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected the He would tell them to go away and meditate over them all; but our Lord never allowed "mooning." When we are getting into contact with God in order to find out what He wants, dreaming is right, but when we are inclined to spend our time in dreaming over what have been told to do, it's a bad thing and God's blessing is never on it. God's initiative is always in the nature of a stab against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us "neither sit nor stand but go."
     If we are quietly waiting before God and He has said , "Come ye yourselves apart, then that is meditation before God in order to get at the line He wants; but always beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave Him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

Recall What God Remembers

Sunday, February 9, 2014
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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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      Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "I remember...the kindness of thy youth." Jeremiah 2:2 Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. It is a great thing to think that Jesus Christ has need of me. "Give Me to drink." How much kindness have I shown Him this past week? Have I been kind to His reputation in my life?
     God is saying to His people, You are not in love with Me now, but I remember the rime when you were, I remember the love of thine equals. Am I as full of the extravagance of love to Jesus Christ as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion? Does He find me recalling the time when I didn't care for anything but Him? Am I there now, or have I become wise over loving Him? Am I so in love with Him that take no account of where I go? or am I watching for the respect due to me; weighing how much service I ought to give?
     If, as I recall what God remembers about me, I find He is not what He used to be to me, let it produce shame and humiliation, because the shame will bring the godly sorrow that works repentance.

The Recognized Ban Of Relationship

Friday, January 31, 2014
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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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      Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. Today's reading is from the book "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. "We are made as the filth of the world." I Corinthians 4:13 Those words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to allow ourselves to be made refuse. "Filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ" is not an evidence of sanctification, but of being "separated unto the gospel."
     "Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you," says Peter. If we do think it strange concerning the things we meet with, it is because we are craven-hearted. We have discreet affinities that keep us out of the mire, I won't stoop, I won't bend. You do not need to, you can be saved by the skin of your teeth if you like; you can refuse to let God count you as one separated unto the gospel. Or you may say, "I do not care if I am treated as the offscouring of the earth as long as the gospel is proclaimed." A servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to go to martyrdom for the reality of the gospel of God. When a merely moral man or woman comes in contact with baseness and immorality and treachery, the recoil is so desperately offensive to human goodness that the heart of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but "to reveal His Son in me."

The Time Of Relapse

Thursday, January 30, 2014
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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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      Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Will ye also go away?" John 6:67 A penetrating question. Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way. We know Who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says, "Will ye also go away?" We have to maintain a venturing attitude toward Him all the time.
     "From the time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed. Many today are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. The one thing God keeps us steadily is that we may be one with Jesus Christ. After sanctification the discipline of our spiritual life is along this line. If God gives a clear and emphatic realization to your soul of what He wants, do not try to keep yourself in that relationship by any particular method, but live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him. The certainty that I do not know, that is the secret of going with Jesus.
     Peter only saw in Jesus Someone to minister salvation to him and to the world. Our Lord wants us to be yoke fellows with Him.
     Jesus answers the great lack in Peter. We cannot answer for others.

The Condition Of Discipleship

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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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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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "If any man come to Me, and hate not...he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:26 If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person, our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a difference between devotion to a Person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause; He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted love slave of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not devoted to Jesus Christ. No man on earth has this passionate love to the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Ghost has imparted it to him. We may admire Him, we may respect Him and reverence Him, but we cannot love Him. The only Lover of the Lord Jesus is the Holy Ghost, and He sheds abroad the very love of God in our hearts. Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Jesus, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ.
     The Christian life is stamped by "moral spontaneous originality," consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

Could This Be True of Me?

Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "But none of these things move me, neither count i my life dear unto myself." Acts 20:24 It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will bemore prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common-sense basis.
     What do I really count dear? If I have not been gripped by Jesus Christ, I will count service dear, time given to God dear, my life dear unto myself. Paul says he counted his life dear only in order that he might fulfill the ministry he had received; he refused to use his energy for any other thing. Acts 20:24 states Paul's almost sublime annoyance at being asked to consider himself; he was absolutely indifferent to any consideration other than that of fulfilling the ministry he had received. Practical work may be a competitor against abandonment to God, because practical work is based on this argument- Remember how useful you are here, or- Think how much value you would be in that particular type of work. That attitude does not put Jesus Christ a the Guide as to where we should go, but our judgement as to where we are of most use. Never consider whether you are use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Do You See Your Calling?

Monday, January 27, 2014
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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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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Separated unto the gospel." Romans 1:1 Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to proclaim the gospel of God. The one thing that is all important is that the gospel of God should be realized as the abiding reality. Reality is not human goodness, nor holiness, nor heaven, nor hell; but redemption; and the need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers we have to get used to the revelation that redemption is the only reality. Personal holiness is an effect, not a cause, and if we place our faith in human goodness, in the effect of redemption, we shall go under when the test comes.
     Paul did not say he separated himself, but "when it pleased God who separated me..." Paul didn't have a hypersensitive interest in his own character. As long as our eyes are upon our own personal whiteness we shall never get near the reality of redemption.Workers break down because their desire is for their own whiteness, and not for God. "Don't ask me to come into contact with the rugged reality of redemption on behalf of the filth of human life as it is; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes." To talk in that way is a sign that the reality of the gospel of God hasn't begun to touch me; there is no reckless abandon to God. God can't deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul is unconscious of himself, he is recklessly abandoned, separated by God for one purpose, to proclaim the gospel of God.

Does My Sacrifice Live?

Sunday, January 26, 2014
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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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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "And Abraham built an altar...and bound Issac his son." Genesis 22:9 This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, sacrifice our lives. Not I am willing to go to death with Thee, but I am willing to be identified with Thy death so that I may sacrifice my life to God. We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! God purified Abraham from this blunder, and the same discipline goes on in our lives. God nowhere tells us to give them up for the sale of the only thing worth having, life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bands that hinder the life, and immediately those bands are loosened by identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God whereby we can sacrifice our lives to Him.
     It is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants us to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

The Worker's Ruling Passion

Saturday, January 25, 2014
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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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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Wherefore we labor that... we may be accepted of Him." II Corinthians 5:9 "Wherefore we labor..." It is arduous to keep the master ambition in front. It means holding one's self to the high ideal year in and year out, not being ambitious to win souls or to establish churches or to have revivals, but being ambitious only to be "accepted of Him." It is not lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but lack of laboring to keep the ideal right. Once a week at least take stock before God and see whether you are keeping your life up to the standard He wishes. Paul is like a musician who doesn't need the approval of the audience if he can catch the look of approval from his Master.
     Any ambition which is in the tiniest degree away from this central one of being "approved unto God" may end in our being castaways. Learn to discern where the ambition leads, and you will see why it is so necessary to live facing the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul says, "Lest my body should make me take another line, I am constantly watching so that I may bring it into subjection and keep it under."
     I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?

The Discipline Of Dejection

Friday, January 24, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "But we trusted...and beside all this...today is the third day..." Luke 24:21 Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savors of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. Dejection springs from one of two sources, I have either satisfied a lust or I have not. Lust means I must have it at once. Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer. What have I been trusting God would do? And today, the immediate present, is the third day, and He has not done it; therefore I imagine I am justified in being dejected and in blaming God. Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected. Dejection is a sign of sickness, and the same thing is true spiritually. Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it.
     We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power (the fact that we are dejected proves that we do), and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes when we learn that it is in the commonplace things that the Deity of Jesus Christ is realized.