It is not by chance that you are tested

(Rom 8:28) And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

I find it fascinating that Romans popped up in my morning devotions this day. In fact, Romans is making an appearance most everywhere I look and where I study. Dr. Petersen and the whole church is deep in this book, unraveling Paul's letter and the beauty of his teaching.

I have been trying to control my spiritual destiny. You know, pick and choose where I think the Lord is leading. You ask, “How did that work out for you?” With a sigh I respond, “Not well......not well at all”.

I constantly counsel others to let Jesus drive! Keep your hands off of the steering wheel, I quip. As the words leave my mouth, I see my hand reaching across to the wheel adjusting the direction. What a hypocrite. Its Time to repent.

Oswald Chambers:

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 cannot understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands. God is bringing you into places and among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit in you may take a particular line. Never put your hand in front of the circumstances and say – I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God, therefore never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the common-sense people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God’s throne and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is going to sweep the whole world with His saints.

Am I making the Holy Spirit’s work difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances I am in and the people I am in contact with. I have to keep my conscious life as a shrine of the Holy Ghost, then as I bring the different ones before God, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for them.

Your intercessions can never be mine, and my intercessions can never be yours, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession in our particular lives, without which intercession someone will be impoverished

KEEP YOUR EYES ON ISRAEL



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