Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers contains a very important exhortation pertaining to our fellowship with our Savior!
Quench not the Spirit. — 1 Thessalonians 5:19
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it. The checks of the Spirit come in the most extraordinarily gentle ways, and if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice you will quench it, and your personal spiritual life will be impaired. His checks always come as a still small voice, so small that no one but the saint notices them.
Beware if in personal testimony you have to hark back and say — “Once, so many years ago, I was saved.” If you are walking in the light, there is no harking back, the past is transfused into the present wonder of communion with God. If you get out of the light you become a sentimental Christian and live on memories, your testimony has a hard, metallic note. Beware of trying to patch up a present refusal to walk in the light by recalling past experiences when you did walk in the light. Whenever the Spirit checks, call a halt and get the thing right, or you will go on grieving Him without knowing it.
AMEN! Once we have received Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, we are reborn by the Spirit of God and able to have intimate fellowship with HIM by Holy Spirit Who now lives IN US! There should never be a time when we are not aware of HIS presence IN us! This close, intimate fellowship with Him will keep us in position to always hear His voice and be directed by His Spirit! AMEN! Guard and protect YOUR fellowship with Him with everything that is within you! Then fully expect to walk in HIS protection, provision and safety, Wisdom, knowledge and understanding! Then HE will get all of the Glory! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Where You Are":Shalom in Him!
