Today I want to share again from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest".
Greater Works
And greater works than these
shall he do; because I go unto My Father. — John 14:12
Prayer does not fit us for the
greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a
commonsense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God’s
work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of
Redemption in me which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the
power of God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer
based on the agony of Redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer
answered; a wise man does not.
Prayer is the battle; it is a
matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers
circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought — “I am of no use
where I am”; because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever
God has dumped you down in circumstances, pray to Him all the time. “Whatsoever
ye shall ask in My name, that will I do.” We won’t pray unless we get thrills,
that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labour along
the line of God’s direction, and He says pray.“Pray ye therefore the Lord
of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest.”
There is nothing thrilling about
a labouring man’s work, but it is the labouring man who makes the conceptions
of the genius possible; and it is the labouring saint who makes the conceptions
of his Master possible. You labour at prayer and results happen all the time
from His standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when the veil is
lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you had been in
the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.
YES! Simply obey the Word by becoming a DOER of it! Now, when you pray, pour prayers will be a force that God can use to confirm His Word in the earth! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Desert Song", which is all about PRAYER!
Shalom in Him!
