Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" for today contains a lesson that I learned a very long time ago from Brother Kenneth E. Hagin! I'll share that after this:
What Next?
If ye
know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. — John 13:17
Determine to Know More Than
Others
If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a
storm and send you out. Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of
His purpose, and you will get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are
not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar,
full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar
into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have
spiritual discernment.
When you know you should do a thing, and do it, immediately you
know more. Revise where you have become “stodgy” spiritually, and you will find
it goes back to a point where there was something you knew you should do, but
you did not do it because there seemed no immediate call to, and now you have
no perception, no discernment; at a time of crisis you are spiritually
distracted instead of spiritually self-possessed. It is a dangerous thing to
refuse to go on knowing.
The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you
work up occasions to sacrifice yourself; ardour is mistaken for discernment. It
is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfil your spiritual destiny, which is
stated in Romans 12:1-2. It is a great deal better to fulfil the purpose of God
in your life by discerning His will than to perform great acts of
self-sacrifice. “To obey is better than sacrifice.” Beware of harking back to
what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. “If
any man will do…he shall know…”
Kenneth E. Hagin gives the account of how very much the Word of God had come alive to Him. Then he said that he saw in the Word that he was not supposed to worry and didn't think it applied to him because he was rather a 'worry wart'! The moment he decided NOT to obey the Word, the the Word became foggy and unclear! When he went back and chose to obey, the Word of God opened up to him again! OBEDIENCE is ALWAYS the key! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Like Incense":
Shalom in Him!
