The Lord is really speaking to me through O. Chambers today. I have lived a pretty paralyzed life...but that is really changing lately. The truth of His word is breaking up the internal bondages setting me free...to believe, to act...to bend down my ear and listen to His Word. And I am seeing the Lord put my enemies under my feet...not of my strength or knowledge but of His grace and mercy and His power, the power He has to subject everything to Himself. I have never felt more alive and happy in God.
This verse came to mind:
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him." But the people answered not a word.
1 Kings 18:21
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Lord I pray for every saint who is faltering today...put their feet on solid ground, cause them to act, to choose You and Your Truth...cause them to bow down to Your authority...we don't like authority Lord, it is a deep fault of ours, very deceitful. Help us to repent from our love affair with ourselves and "our" way...help us to just choose Your way.
HELP US TO LOVE YOU FATHER WITH OUR WHOLE HEARTS.
My Utmost for His Highest - By Oswald Chambers
November 4 - The Authority of Truth
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (James 4:8).
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual—you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood—work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. “Come to Me ” (Matthew 11:28). His word come means “to act.” Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.
Name: Shirley K.
