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| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 346 Registered: 8-2004  |
"I being in the way, the Lord led me...." Genesis 24:27 "We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience-until he wishes to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar. In the spiritual life the intuitive jar is the monition of the Spirit of God. When He gives the check, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind in order to make out what God's will is. If we are born again of the Spirit of God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and there. "The Lord led me," and on looking back we see the presence of an amazing design, which, if we are born of God, we will credit to God. "We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God's appointed order, and be ready to discover the Divine designs anywhere. "Beware of making a fetish of consistancy to your convictions instead of being devoted to God. I shall never do that - in all probability you will have to, if you are a saint. There never was a more inconsistent Being on this earth than our Lord, but He was never inconsistent to His Father. The one consisitency of the saint is not to a principal, but to the Divine life. It is the Divine life which continually makes discoveries about the Divine mind. It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our religious conceit, in being loyal to God." --Oswald Chambers | ||
| Seekr777 Registered user Username: Seekr777 Post Number: 363 Registered: 1-2003  |
WOW and AMEN ! ! ! ! This is sooooo true. I'm on break at school right now and this is just what I needed to be reminded of. Seeing God in every detail of my life is such an awesome idea and one that is so beautiful when we have turned our lives over to Him. In Christ, Richard rtruitt@mac.com | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 1012 Registered: 3-2005 |
Mary, I agree with what Richard said. What is so amazing about everything Chambers writes is that it is totally centered on God and not man. "If we are born again of the Spirit of God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and there....if we are born of God, we will credit to God." This is tough to always do, but what a challenge. Stan | ||
| Lisa_boyldavis Registered user Username: Lisa_boyldavis Post Number: 114 Registered: 3-2005 |
I find that in my quiet prayer time I get God's will without asking.... it's that whisper, not the thunder or earth quake. It's quite but clear. LBD | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 141 Registered: 4-2005 |
I am discovering that some of the most pruductive prayer time is in the middle of the night, the 1 am, 2 am, 3 am hours when sleep eludes me for awhile; be it a few minutes of over an hour. My spirit launches into prayer before my consciousness is even trying to remind me to pray. A.W. Tozer said, "Our chief difficulty in dealing with God is the habit of trying to make our own terms instead of meeting the terms already laid down." Submit and obey are hard and exacting words but necessary if we would be true Christians. A constant prayer so appropriate is, "Open my eyes that I may see; give me acute spiritual perception; enable me to taste Thee and know that Thou art good. Make heaven more real to me than any earthly thing has ever been. Amen." Soli Deo Gloria Ps. 46:10 Jess | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2937 Registered: 12-2003  |
I think I have to read some Tozer, Jess. The quotes you've been sharing are so good! What biography of him are you reading, by the way? Colleen | ||
| Jwd Registered user Username: Jwd Post Number: 144 Registered: 4-2005 |
Colleen, It's by James L. Snyder. His writings have appeared in more than 30 periodicals but this is his first book. He currently pastors in the Alliance Church in Ocala, FL. Christianity Today awareded Snyder their "Reader's Choice Award" in 1992 in the biography and history category. Tozer has been called "the conscience of evangelicalism." Among those who sought his counsel are Billy Graham and Mark O. Hatfield. "They sought out Tozer because they knew he was a man well acquainted with God." This evidence and the depth of spirituality in the three books of his I have read is want prompted me to find out more about his life - mostly his devotional life. His ordination prayer alone is worth the purchase of the book. So says Christian Advocate Review. It is hard for me to lay down. A unique feature of this book is the "Tozer-Grams" as they are called. These are little paragraphs of things Tozer said, and testimonies of those who knew him. I ordered it "used" from Amazon. They transferred it to a private book vendor who had it in stock, as they frequently do. It took so long to arrive - and I had mistakenly deleted the name and order number for tracing it; so thinking it was not coming, I place another order with Amazon for a new book. Both arrived within two days of each other. So I have a new one to give away. Would you be interested in having it as a gift? Jess | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2941 Registered: 12-2003 |
Jess, I'd be happy to pay you for it! Colleen |
