I was given a copy of "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers a few years ago and it has been a tremendous blessing! This book was first published in 1924, so the words used and writing style is somewhat different than what we are used to, but this serves as incentive to really pause and meditate on what is actually being said! Today's message is excellent!
Christ-Awareness
…and I will give you rest. —Matthew 11:28
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with
Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never
allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of
every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as something to
fight against, not as something you should allow to remain. Ask the Lord to put
awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He
will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue,
because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic.
Don’t allow yourself to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this
is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m sure I must have
this cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave others alone regarding this.
Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until
your completeness in Him is absolute.
A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully
conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick
person who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will
of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even slightly from
the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your will?” A child of God
never prays to be made aware of the fact that God answers prayer, because he is
so restfully certain that God always answers prayer.
If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our
own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness
tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me…and I will give you rest,” that is,
Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He
establishes rest— the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is
never aware of itself.
I LOVE this! The only way to operate in the supernatural realm is to see ourselves as IN HIM! Kenneth E. Hagin wrote an excellent mini book called by that name that shows the importance of knowing who we are IN HIM, and lists the Scriptures that reveal that! We can never reach our full potential as HIS ambassadors until we DO know who WE ARE - IN HIM! I hope that you will meditateon this and allow Holy Spirit to show you these wonderful and very powerful TRUTHS! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I Am":Shalom in Him!
