Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers sontains another important lesson for every born again believer!
The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances
We know that all things work together for good to those who
love God… —Romans 8:28
The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In
the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence
brings you into circumstances that you can’t understand at all, but the Spirit
of God understands. God brings you to places, among people, and into certain
conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the
Spirit in you. Never put yourself in front of your circumstances and say, “I’m
going to be my own providence here; I will watch this closely, or protect
myself from that.” All your circumstances are in the hand of God, and therefore
you don’t ever have to think they are unnatural or unique. Your part in
intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the
everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to
bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to
intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His
saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being vague
and unsure, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of
intercession— utilizing the circumstances in which I find myself and the people
who surround me. I must keep my conscious life as a sacred place for the Holy
Spirit. Then as I lift different ones to God through prayer, the Holy Spirit
intercedes for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions
can never be yours, “…but the Spirit Himself makes intercession” in each of our
lives (Romans 8:26). And without that intercession, the lives of others would
be left in poverty and in ruin.
Never underestimate the importance of your willing obedience to the directions you receive from the Spirit of God! Remember Isaiah 1:19:19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Obey the Word of GOd, as led by the Spirit of God, and you can't go wrong! Here are Hillsong Kids with "Trust and Obey":
Shalom in Him!
