Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has a very important question for us to ask ourselves when we are set to ask God for something! Here is the portion that I am speaking of!
Seekest thou great things for thyself? — Jeremiah 45:5
Are you
seeking great things for yourself? Not seeking to be a great one, but seeking
great things from God for yourself. God wants you in a closer relationship to
Himself than receiving His gifts, He wants you to get to know Him. A great
thing is accidental, it comes and goes. God never gives us anything accidental.
There is nothing easier than getting into a right relationship with God except
when it is not God Whom you want but only what He gives.
If you
have only come the length of asking God for things, you have never come to the
first strand of abandonment, you have become a Christian from a standpoint of
your own. “I did ask God for the Holy Spirit, but He did not give me the rest
and the peace I expected.” Instantly God puts His finger on the reason — you
are not seeking the Lord at all, you are seeking something for yourself. Jesus
says — “Ask, and it shall be given you.” Ask God for what you want, and you
cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God,
you cease from asking for things. “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need
of, before ye ask Him.” Then why ask? That you may get to know Him.
14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. 15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him
Find out what the Word of God has to say about whatever is on your mind! Meditate on those verses, and then approach God with HIS Word on your lips! He ONLY hears His Word! And WHEN He hears, we HAVE the answer! AMEN! While you and I are studying the Word, everyday, we are getting to really KNOW Him better! THAT is the ultimate goal! Our Father desires that we KNOW Him AS our Father! He desires that we know and understand His DEEP, ETERNAL and UNCONDITIONAL Love for us! Meditate on THAT and you will find yourself falling DEEPLY in love with Him! Deeper than you ever thought possible! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Oceans", a GREAT song of surrender and commitment! Sing it out! Sing it from your heart! Sing it to HIM! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
