Shalom,

Today I want to share a just a portion of "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:

Seek, and ye shall find. — Luke 11:9

Seek If You Have Not Found

“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask amiss, i.e., you ask from a desire for self-realisation. The more you realize yourself the less will you seek God. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Get to work, narrow your interests to this one. Have you ever sought God with you whole heart, or have you only given a languid cry to Him after a twinge of moral neuralgia? Seek, concentrate, and you will find.

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” Are you thirsty, or smugly indifferent — so satisfied with your experience that you want nothing more of God? Experience is a gateway, not an end. Beware of building your faith on experience, the metallic note will come in at once, the censorious note. You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.

The two lines I love the most are:

• Experience is a gateway, not an end.
• You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have.

So many people try to base their faith on experiences. The Word of God says that faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). It does NOT come any other way! Experiences should only serve to motivate us to get into the Word to find our exactly what DOES belong to us as children of the Most High God! I also love that correction and encouragement that WE cannot put inside of another person the Wisdom that we have obtained by meditating on the Word of God! THEY must do THEIR own part! Joshua 1:8 tells us clearly what needs to happen in order for us to walk in the fullness of the LIFE that HE has planned for us! 

8 This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.

AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Shadow Step":

Shalom in Him!