Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Shalom,

I like this from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers for today:

We all have moments when we feel better than ever before, and we say, “I feel fit for anything; if only I could always be like this!” We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to even when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for the everyday world when we are not on the mountaintop. Yet we must bring our everyday life up to the standard revealed to us on the mountaintop when we were there.

What he is saying here is that there are times when the revelation of God's Word simply flows! Times when we are very aware of the presence of God. Many times this may be after a time of very intimate fellowship with Him or after an especially anointed Worship Service in the presence of like-minded believers. It is very easy to see things clearly and be extremely motivated to be a DOER of the Word of God in this environment. But we are not meant to live continually in one big Worship Service, we are meant to go from that service and share the Light and the Life with those we come in contact with! Church is supposed to be the place where believers come together to be taught, trained, encouraged and re-charged for the daily work of the ministry (2 Corinthians 5:18)! Then we are to be sent forth as missiles into the lost world and save some (1 Corinthians 9:22)! Look at Hebrews 1:7:

7 and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, 'Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;' YLT

Here is more from the devotional:

Never allow a feeling that was awakened in you on the mountaintop to evaporate. Don’t place yourself on the shelf by thinking, “How great to be in such a wonderful state of mind!” Act immediately— do something, even if your only reason to act is that you would rather not. If, during a prayer meeting, God shows you something to do, don’t say, “I’ll do it”— just DO IT! Pick yourself up by the back of the neck and shake off your fleshly laziness. Laziness can always be seen in our cravings for a mountaintop experience; all we talk about is our planning for our time on the mountain. We must learn to live in the ordinary “gray” day according to what we saw on the mountain.

Be a DOER of the Word, ESPECIALLY when you DON'T "feel" like it! Determine to be moved only by the Word of God and the Spirit of God and you will find that the joy of your daily fellowship with Him will not leave as quickly as it has in the past! When the devil realizes that he cannot get you to stop or give up by "messing" with your feelings, he will leave you alone and go find someone that he CAN intimidate! Be NOT ignorant of the way he works (2 Corinthians 2:11)! YOUR weapons are not carnal (worldly and prone to failure) but are "mighty through God to the pulling down" of the enemy's strongholds in your life (2 Corinthians 10:4)! Amen! Here, to encourage you in this, is Hillsong Chapel with "Salvation Is Here":



Shalom in Him!