Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is
Missionary Munitions
When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. — John 1:48
Worshipping as Occasion Serves.
We imagine we would be all right if a big crisis arose; but
the big crisis will only reveal the stuff we are made of, it will not put
anything into us. “If God gives the call, of course I will rise to the
occasion.” You will not unless you have risen to the occasion in the workshop,
unless you have been the real thing before God there. If you are not doing the
thing that lies nearest, because God has engineered it; when the crisis comes
instead of being revealed as fit, you will be revealed as unfit. Crises always
reveal character.
The private relationship of worshipping God is the great
essential of fitness. The time comes when there is no more “fig-tree” life
possible, when it is out into the open, out into the glare and into the work,
and you will find yourself of no value there if you have not been worshipping
as occasion serves you in your home. Worship aright in your private
relationships, then when God sets you free you will be ready, because in the
unseen life which no one saw but God you have become perfectly fit, and when
the strain comes you can be relied upon by God.
“I can’t be expected to live the sanctified life in the
circumstances I am in; I have no time for praying just now, no time for Bible
reading, my opportunity hasn’t come yet; when it does, of course I shall be all
right.” No, you will not. If you have not been worshipping as occasion serves,
when you get into work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous
hindrance to those who are associated with you.
The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden,
personal, worshipping life of the saint.
AMEN! Worship is ALWAYS a powerful tool for God's glory and weapon against the enemy! DO IT! Here is Hillsong with "Here I Am To Worship":
Shalom in Him!
