I absolutely LOVE today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
Friendship With God
Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? — Genesis 18:17
Its Delights. This chapter brings out the delight of real
friendship with God as compared with occasional feelings of His presence in
prayer. To be so much in contact with God that you never need to ask Him to
show you His will, is to be nearing the final stage of your discipline in the
life of faith. When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and
liberty and delight, you are God’s will, and all your common sense
decisions are His will for you unless He checks. You decide things in perfect
delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are wrong He
will always check; when He checks, stop at once.
Its Difficulties. Why did Abraham stop praying when he did? He was
not intimate enough yet to go boldly on until God granted his desire, there was
something yet to be desired in his relationship to God. Whenever we stop short
in prayer and say — “Well, I don’t know; perhaps it is not God’s will” — there
is still another stage to go. We are not so intimately acquainted with God as
Jesus was, and as He wants us to be — “That they may be one even as we are
one.” Think of the last thing you prayed about — were you devoted to your
desire or to God?
Determined to get some gift of the Spirit or to get at God?
“Your Heavenly Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him.”
The point of asking is that you may get to know God better. “Delight thyself also
in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Keep
praying in order to get a perfect understanding of God Himself.
AMEN! Our Father DESIRES that we have intimate fellowship with Him! Holy Spirit has been given to us for that very purpose! So that WE could have constant access to the God of all the universe, right in the center of our being!!! If YOU have received JESUS as Lord and personal Saviour, then you HAVE the Spirit of Almighty God IN you! practice getting used to His presence. Your life will NEVER be the same again!@ Wherever you go, you will NEVER go alone again! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "From The Inside Out":Shalom in Him!
