Monday, August 28, 2017

Shalom,

I live today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers! It is all about FAITH and the FIGHT  of and for it!

Sublime Intimacy

Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?  John 11:40
Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your commonsense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him? Can you venture heroically on Jesus 

Christ’s statements when the facts of your common sense life shout “It’s a lie”? On the mount it is easy to say — “Oh, yes, I believe God can do it”; but you have to come down into the demon-possessed valley and meet with facts that laugh ironically at the whole of your mount-of-transfiguration belief. Every time my programme of belief is clear to my own mind, I come across something that contradicts it. Let me say I believe God will supply all my need, and then let me run dry, with no outlook, and see whether I will go through the trial of faith, or whether I will sink back to something lower.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict. What is your faith up against just now? The test will either prove that your faith is right, or it will kill it. “Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me.” The final thing is confidence in Jesus. Believe steadfastly on Him and all you come up against will develop your faith. There is continual testing in the life of faith, and the last great test is death. May God keep us in fighting trim! Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.

This is SO accurate when it comes to the faith fight! Our enemy has already been defeated by JESUS through His death, burial and resurrection! IN HIM we now have NEW LIFE and a brand new Covenant, sealed in His blood, that grants us Salvation in every area of life! Health and healing, favor and prosperity, Wisdom and understanding are all available to us, and IF we meditate on the Word (
Joshua 1:8 AMP) until the Word rises big in us, we can declare with faith and confidence what the Word says about us! The key is to make sure that our intimate fellowship with JESUS is our #1 priority so that we can see, hear and KNOW clearly what belongs to us, and then have the strength and endurance to withstand the onslaught of lies by the enemy as he tries to continue his ways of stealing, killing and destroying! If you can see this and are ready to pick up your game, then you will LOVE this new song from Hillsong UNITED called "Not Today", and you will sing it IN HIS FACE! AMEN! 



Shalom in Him!