Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers gives some instructions in the second half for being led by the Lord that we have always given at The Spoken Word Church!
The secret ["friendship,"
What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys, or are we telling God our secrets so continually that we leave no room for Him to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God, then we find that God wants to get us into relationship* (see below for a correction) with Himself, to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so wedded to Jesus Christ’s idea of prayer — “Thy will be done” — that we catch the secrets of God? The things that make God dear to us are not so much His great big blessings as the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us; He knows every detail of our individual lives.
“…him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.” At first we want the consciousness of being guided by God, then as we go on we live so much in the consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His will is, because the thought of choosing any other will never occur to us. If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say — “I wonder why I shouldn’t?” God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying — “Now, Lord, what is Thy will?”
Amen! Once we receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, we ARE in an unbreakable relationship with Him! We are members of the family of God and the Body of Christ! What God REALLY desires after that is a close and intimate FELLOWSHIP with us! Through this fellowship, He CAN lead, guide and direct us in such a powerful and supernaturally natural way that we will have all confidence in every decision! THAT kind of fellowship takes time, effort and a determined purpose to settle for nothing less! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Where You Are":Shalom in Him!
