I live today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers! It is all about FAITH and the FIGHT of and for it!
Sublime Intimacy
Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God? John 11:40
Every
time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your commonsense
circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith,
and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and
the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust
Him? Can you venture heroically on Jesus
Christ’s statements when the facts of
your common sense life shout “It’s a lie”? On the mount it is easy to say — “Oh,
yes, I believe God can do it”; but you have to come down into the
demon-possessed valley and meet with facts that laugh ironically at the whole
of your mount-of-transfiguration belief. Every time my programme of belief is
clear to my own mind, I come across something that contradicts it. Let me say I
believe God will supply all my need, and then let me run dry, with no outlook,
and see whether I will go through the trial of faith, or whether I will sink
back to something lower.
Faith
must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only
through conflict. What is your faith up against just now? The test will either
prove that your faith is right, or it will kill it. “Blessed is he, whosoever
shall not be offended in Me.” The final thing is confidence in Jesus. Believe
steadfastly on Him and all you come up against will develop your faith. There
is continual testing in the life of faith, and the last great test is death.
May God keep us in fighting trim! Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust
which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
This is SO accurate when it comes to the faith fight! Our enemy has already been defeated by JESUS through His death, burial and resurrection! IN HIM we now have NEW LIFE and a brand new Covenant, sealed in His blood, that grants us Salvation in every area of life! Health and healing, favor and prosperity, Wisdom and understanding are all available to us, and IF we meditate on the Word (Joshua 1:8 AMP) until the Word rises big in us, we can declare with faith and confidence what the Word says about us! The key is to make sure that our intimate fellowship with JESUS is our #1 priority so that we can see, hear and KNOW clearly what belongs to us, and then have the strength and endurance to withstand the onslaught of lies by the enemy as he tries to continue his ways of stealing, killing and destroying! If you can see this and are ready to pick up your game, then you will LOVE this new song from Hillsong UNITED called "Not Today", and you will sing it IN HIS FACE! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
