LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD

OSWALD CHAMBERS tells us, “As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God – to give God ‘elbow room’ We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. 

Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? 

Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him. 

That is the way to make room for Him. Expect Him to come, but do not expect Him only in a certain way. 

However much we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. 

All of a sudden God meets the life - "When it was the good pleasure of God…"

Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. 

Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes. (pg 50 ) 

The teaching of Jesus is out of all proportion to our natural way of looking at things and it comes with astonishing discomfort to begin with. 

We have slowly to form our walk and conversation on the live of the precepts of Jesus Christ as the Holy Spirit applies them to our circumstances. 

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations; it is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting His way with us. (pg 426)

The whole meaning of our being identified with the death of Jesus is that His blood may flow through our mortal bodies. 

Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him, and it is the blood of Christ, in the sense of the whole personal life of the Son of God, that comes into us and "cleanseth us from all sin ' ”  (pg 427)

“But when it pleased God…”  Gal. 1:15

The above was taken from Devotions for MORNING and EVENING with OSWALD CHAMBERS

Our Daily Bread 

“If we pursue mere earthly gain,

We choose a path that ends in pain’

But joy remains within the soul

When we pursue a heavenly goal. –D. De Haan

You are headed in the right direction when you walk with God.”
( 8/22/11)

“When a person’s steps follow the Lord, God is pleased with his ways. If he stumbles, he will not fall, because the Lord holds his hand.”  Ps. 37:23-24  NCV

“And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”  Mark 13:37 NKJV

“Stay at your post.  Keep watch.”  Mark 13:37 MSG

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