Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another very good exhortation and encouragement for us to hold on to!
Friendship With God
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? — Genesis 18:17
Its Delights. This chapter brings
out the delight of real friendship with God as compared with occasional
feelings of His presence in prayer. To be so much in contact with God that you
never need to ask Him to show you His will, is to be nearing the final stage of
your discipline in the life of faith. When you are rightly related to God, it
is a life of freedom and liberty and delight, you are God’s
will, and all your commonsense decisions are His will for you unless He checks.
You decide things in perfect delightful friendship with God, knowing that if
your decisions are wrong He will always check; when He checks, stop at once.
Its Difficulties. Why did Abraham
stop praying when he did? He was not intimate enough yet to go boldly on until
God granted his desire, there was something yet to be desired in his
relationship to God. Whenever we stop short in prayer and say — “Well, I don’t
know; perhaps it is not God’s will” — there is still another stage to go. We
are not so intimately acquainted with God as Jesus was, and as He wants us to
be — “That they may be one even as we are one.” Think of the last thing you
prayed about — were you devoted to your desire or to God? Determined to get some
gift of the Spirit or to get at God? “Your Heavenly Father knows what things
you have need of before you ask Him.” The point of asking is that you may get to
know God better. “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
Keep praying in order to get a perfect understanding of God Himself.
This is SO very true! Many believers see themselves, therefore act like, someone sitting on the outside trying to find a peephole to look in at the wonderful things of God! WE have complete and 'already paid for' access to the One True God at any time, and every time, that WE choose! KNOW who you are - IN HIM! Know what belongs to YOU as a child of the Living God! Now step out into what GOD has for you with complete confidence that HE will never allow YOU to slip, fall or fail! AMEN! Psalm 55:22:
Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail).
COUNT on it! Here is Hillsong United with "Oceans - Where Feet May Fail". (BUT, He will not allow yours to do so! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
