It
is not by chance that you are tested
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
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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