This, from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers, is a great reminder that God's ways of doing things will NEVER be fit into a box! When we become too comfortable with how WE believe God will respond, He will come from a completely different direction to carry out His Word! He will ALWAYS act in accordance with His Word, but rarely in accordance with our sometimes very limited and small thinking of HOW He will do it! Thank HIM for that! AMEN!
When Jesus had made an end of commanding his disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. — Matthew 11:1
He comes where He commands us to leave. If when God said “Go,” you stayed, because you were so concerned about your people at home, you robbed them of the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ Himself. When you obeyed and left all consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you would not obey, you were in the way. Watch where you begin to debate and to put what you call duty in competition with your Lord’s commands. “I know He told me to go, but then my duty was here;” that means you do not believe that Jesus means what He says.
He teaches where He instructs us not to. “Master,…let us make three tabernacles.” Are we playing the spiritual amateur providence in other lives? Are we so noisy in our instruction of others that God cannot get anywhere near them? We have to keep our mouths shut and our spirits alert. God wants to instruct us in regard to His Son, He wants to turn our times of prayer into mounts of transfiguration, and we will not let Him. When we are certain of the way God is going to work, He will never work in that way any more.
He works where He sends us to wait. “Tarry ye…until…” Wait on God and He will work, but don’t wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told. These are phases of His ways we rarely recognize.
AMEN! If, and I believe we DO, really desire for God to BE God, then we MUST be obedient to His Word, in the WAY that Holy Spirit directs! Increase your expectancy of good and Godly things being fulfilled in your life by digging deep into His promises to us, His people! Speak that Word, and those results, into your life and get ready for some 'SUDDENLIES' taking place! Remember that HE desires for us to live in THE BLESSING more than we desire it for ourselves {3 John 2 and John 10:10 AMP)! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Captain":Shalom in Him!
