Shalom,
Today I want to share Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional!
Have You Come To “When” Yet?
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed
for his friends. — Job 42:10
The plaintive, self-centered, morbid kind of prayer, a
dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact
that I am trying to be right with God is a sign that I am rebelling against the
Atonement. “Lord, I will purify my heart if You will
answer my prayer; I will walk rightly if You will help me.” I cannot 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 resign every kind of claim and cease from every effort, and leave myself
entirely alone in His hands, and then begin to pour out in the priestly work of
intercession. There is much prayer that arises from real disbelief in the
Atonement. Jesus is not beginning to save us, He has saved us, the thing is
done, and it is an insult to ask Him to do it.
If you are not getting the hundredfold more, not getting
insight into God’s word, then start praying for your friends, enter into the
ministry of the interior. “The Lord turned
the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” The real business of your life as a saved soul is
intercessory prayer. Wherever God puts you in circumstances, pray immediately,
pray that His Atonement may be realised in other lives as it has been in yours.
Pray for your friends now; pray for those with whom you come in
contact now.
AMEN! PRAY! Then PRAISE because our GREAT GOD ALWAYS answers the PRAYERS of HIS PEOPLE! Here is Brandon Lake with "Count 'Em":
Shalom in Him!