Monday, November 07, 2005

Oswald Chambers Utmost for TODAY

Hey don't bother with all my blather....READ THIS:

THE UNDETECTED SACREDNESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES
All things work together for good to them that love God.
Romans 8:28

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.

3 comments:

Curious Servant said...

i am unsure that He has placed all of the challenges in my life. I think that though he can make good come from ANYTHING, that much of the junk in our lives comes from other sources.

From my own sin. From the machinations of Satan.

Aside from that point, I think that your post is excellent. We often get in the way of the good works that the Holy Spirit is trying to do in our lives.

Thank you

Gigi said...

Placed or 'allowed'...I do believe whatever they are...HE knows and 'allowed' them....is that what Oswald is talking about with ORDAINED....??

so i go said...

aww, i like your blather.. but thanks.. this was good stuff.