Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" goes right along with some things that we heard at The Spoken Word Church this morning!
MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. — John 1:48
Worshipping as Occasion Serves.
We
imagine we would be all right if a big crisis arose; but the big crisis will
only reveal the stuff we are made of, it will not put anything into us. “If God
gives the call, of course I will rise to the occasion.” You will not unless you
have risen to the occasion in the workshop, unless you have been the real thing
before God there. If you are not doing the thing that lies nearest, because God
has engineered it; when the crisis comes instead of being revealed as fit, you
will be revealed as unfit. Crises always reveal character.
The
private relationship of worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. The
time comes when there is no more “fig-tree” life possible, when it is out into
the open, out into the glare and into the work, and you will find yourself of
no value there if you have not been worshipping as occasion serves you in your
home. Worship aright in your private relationships, then when God sets you free
you will be ready, because in the unseen life which no one saw but God you have
become perfectly fit, and when the strain comes you can be relied upon by God.
“I
can’t be expected to live the sanctified life in the circumstances I am in; I
have no time for praying just now, no time for Bible reading, my opportunity
hasn’t come yet; when it does, of course I shall be all right.” No, you will
not. If you have not been worshipping as occasion serves, when you get into
work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those
who are associated with you.
The
workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping life of
the saint.
Find out what the Word of God says about YOU! Now dare to stand on God's promises to you, and to expect them to come to pass! The God Who said THIS from John 17:17, is NOT holding out on you! AMEN!
17 Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth.
Here is Hillsong UNITED with "The God Who Saves":
Shalom in Him!
