Wow! This is such an incredible thought. The last time I prayed really hard about whether or not something was God’s will, I can honestly, and unfortunatley, say that I wanted the thing i was praying about more than I wanted God. We must want God and his Spirit more. More than whatever the other thing we are praying about it. I hope that this blesses you as much as it has me and that it causes you to choose to want Him more. Have a great day and God bless!
My Utmost for His Highest – March 20
Title: Friendship With God
Key Verse: Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?
Click link below to study this verse: Genesis 18:17
http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=ge+18:17
Its Delights. This chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with
God as compared with occasional feelings of His presence in prayer. To be
so much in contact with God that you never need to ask Him to show you His
will, is to be nearing the final stage of your discipline in the life of
faith. When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and
liberty and delight, you are God’s will, and all your common-sense
decisions are His will for you unless He checks. You decide things in
perfect delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are
wrong He will always check; when He checks, stop at once.
Its Difficulties. Why did Abraham stop praying when he did? He was not
intimate enough yet to go boldly on until God granted his desire, there
was something yet to be desired in his relationship to God. Whenever we
stop short in prayer and say – “Well, I don’t know; perhaps it is not
God’s will,” there is still another stage to go. We are not so intimately
acquainted with God as Jesus was, and as He wants us to be – “That they
may be one even as we are one.” Think of the last thing you prayed about -
were you devoted to your desire or to God? Determined to get some gift of
the Spirit or to get at God? “Your Heavenly Father knoweth what things ye
have need of before ye ask Him.” The point of asking is that you may get
to know God better. “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give
thee the desires of thine heart.” Keep praying in order to get a perfect
understanding of God Himself.
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Taken from ‘My Utmost for His Highest’, by Oswald Chambers. © l935 by Dodd
Mead & Co., renewed © 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn.,
Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio.
All rights reserved.
