I really like today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers:
Have You Come to “When” Yet?
The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his
friends. —Job 42:10
A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a
determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in
the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is actually a
sign that I am rebelling against the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I pray,
“Lord, I will purify my heart if You will answer my prayer— I will walk rightly
before You if You will help me.” But I canno make myself right with God;
I cannot make my life perfect. I can only be right with God if I
accept the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ as an absolute gift. Am I humble
enough to accept it? I have to surrender all my rights and demands, and cease
from every self-effort. I must leave myself completely alone in His hands, and
then I can begin to pour my life out in the priestly work of intercession.
There is a great deal of prayer that comes from actual disbelief in the
atonement. Jesus is not just beginning to save us— He has already saved us
completely. It is an accomplished fact, and it is an insult to Him for us to
ask Him to do what He has already done.
If you are not now receiving the “hundredfold” which Jesus
promised (see Matthew 19:29), and not getting insight into God’s Word,
then start praying for your friends— enter into the ministry of the inner life.
“The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends.” As a
saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever
circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement
may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been
in yours. Pray for your friends now, and pray for those with whom you come
in contact now.
The most important TRUTH to know about you who have been born again, receiving JESUS as Lord and Savior, is that you are no longer who you were! You are NOW who HE says you are! The work was finished 2000 years ago when JESUS GAVE His own life to buy ours back! Holy Spirit began His GOOD WORK in us by recreating our dead human spirits into the image of God, making us those new creations that never existed before (2 Corinthians 5:17)! Stop striving to look, sound and act like someone else's idea of what a Christian is supposed to be like and really become the very best YOU that God has for you to be! HE does the work when WE put our trust in Him and simply obey the Word and follow the leading of Holy Spirit Who lives IN us! THEN, and ONLY then, will we be able to run our race and finish our course! We are unique and uniquely positioned to fulfill what GOD has called us to do. AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I AM":
Shalom in Him!
