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Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 528
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 8:17 am: |     |
"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." John 13:17
If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out. Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and you will get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment.
When you know you should do a thing, and do it, immediately you know more. Revise where you have become stodgy spiritually, and you will find it goes back to a point where there was something you knew you should do, but you did not do it because there seemed no immediate call to, and now you have no perception, no discernment; at a time of crisis you are spiritually distracted instead of spiritually self-possessed. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to go on knowing.
The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you work up occasions to sacrifice yourself; ardour is mistaken for discernment. It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfil your spiritual destiny, which is stated in Romans 12:1-2. It is a great deal better to fulfil the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than to perform great acts of self-sacrifice. "To obey is better than sacrifice." Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . he shall know."
My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers |
Seekr777
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Username: Seekr777
Post Number: 533
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 9:59 am: | |
Helovesme2, thanks for your posting of Oswald Chambers. You must be on the same reading schedule as I am. I'm always challenged and blessed by the thoughts that you post.
Richard
rtruitt@mac.com
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Mwh
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Username: Mwh
Post Number: 50
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 4:13 am: | |
Cw: I'm praying for your daughter and you, may God the holy spirit open her eyes to what SDA really is and that you must be given the strength and love to continue the dialog.
May the holy spirit love you and manifest himself in your lives! |
Cw
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Username: Cw
Post Number: 82
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 10:39 am: | |
Thanks Mwh, my only peace in all of this is that I know God will honor these prayers and not allow D to be deceived. I told her that and got a good eye roll from her for it. She's 19 but still a little girl in many ways. But she won't be deceived and when push comes to shove (American slang) I can only trust her to be obedient to God and not to EGW. CW |
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