Abandon yourself to God in total surrender
Suppose God tells you to do something that is an enormous test of your common sense, totally going against it. What will you do? Will you hold back? If you get into the habit of doing something physically, you will do it every time you are tested until you break the habit through sheer determination. And the same is true spiritually. Again and again you will come right up to what Jesus wants, but every time you will turn back at the true point of testing, until you are determined to abandon yourself to God in total surrender. Yet we tend to say, “Yes, but–suppose I do obey God in this matter, what about. . .?” Or we say, “Yes, I will obey God if what He asks of me doesn’t go against my common sense, but don’t ask me to take a step in the dark.”
Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark. In the spiritual realm, Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold on to or believe through common sense, and leap by faith into what He says. Once you obey, you will immediately find that what He says is as solidly consistent as common sense.
By the test of common sense, Jesus Christ`s statements may seem mad, but when you test them by the trial of faith, your findings will fill your spirit with the awesome fact that they are the very words of God. Trust completely in God, and when He brings you to a new opportunity of adventure, offering it to you, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis–only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
– Oswald Chambers
This was my devotional the other day and I needed to share it. . . Everything that is being said, is the situation I`m in now.
God has called me to do Gap Year, which is an enormous test of totally going against my common sense.
What will I do? Will I turn back?
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NO I WONT! WHY?!
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BECAUSE THE GOD I SERVE: Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold on to or believe through common sense, and leap by faith into what He says.
Wanna know what is TOTALLY against common sense?
The fact that I need $9,000 in my account before July 18th, in order to do Gap Year, and I only have around $3,000!
CRAZY RIGHT?!?!?!?
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WELL I SERVE A MIGHTY GOD
AND
I CHOOSE TO WALK BY FAITH NOT COMMON SENSE!
“If you can explain what`s going on, God didn’t do it!”
How do you explain a miracle?!?!?!?!
You don`t! You just receive it and share it and let God have all the glory.
– Warren W. Wiersbe
-If its Gods will / It`s His bill-
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
Ephesians 3:20-21
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE TEAM AND I, AS YOU SEE, I NEED IT!
PEACE AND LOVE,
LACEY OLSON
