Today I want to share from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.
The Authority of Truth
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. —James 4:8
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act
on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you
cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical
message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person
paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the
same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds
who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action,
I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I
truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never
allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily
externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it
into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is
liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf.
We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then
we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business
going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming
Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. “Come to Me…” (Matthew
11:28). His word come means “to act.” Yet the last thing we want to
do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the
supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the
world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because
your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.
AMEN! We cannot pray FOR someone to be born again, but we CAN pray WITH them! Every individual must make their own personal commitment to the Word of the Living God and choose JESUS as Lord and Saviour. When they do, they BECOME childen of the Most High God! Members of His family and heirs together with JESUS Himself! AMEN! So, when YOU share the Gospel, always give them an opportunity to believe and receive! YOU will have done YOUR part and Holy Spirit will take what YOU have sown and continue to bring it up to them, over and over again! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "No One But You":
Shalom in Him!
