HELPFUL OR HEARTLESS TOWARD OTHERS?

It's that time of the year again for our Family Freedom Walk. The purpose of this event is to raise funds for our addiction recovery ministries at America's Keswick. For the past two years the gals who received the VICTORY CALL blog have challenged us to see who could raise the most money and they have beat us HANDS DOWN! SO I NEED YOUR HELP TODAY. Would you please consider a gift for the Family Freedom Walk (May 12, 2012)? You can call today (800-453-7942) or give right from the web (www.americaskeswick.org). Please be sure and say that your gift is from a FREEDOM FIGHTER for the walk! Let's beat them!!!

HELPFUL OR HEARTLESS TOWARD OTHERS?

“It is Christ . . . who also makes intercession for us. . . . the Spirit . . . makes intercession for the saints . . . .” Romans 8:34,27  

   

I’ve shared with you on numerous occasions that I have a love-hate relationship with Mr. Oswald Chambers. For the past 17+ years that I have been reading My Utmost for His Highest, God has used him to speak truth into my heart. The reading from yesterday was one that really grabbed my heart. I pray it will speak to you today. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

Do we need any more arguments than these to become intercessors—that Christ “always lives to make intercession” (Hebrews 7:25), and that the Holy Spirit “makes intercession for the saints”? Are we living in such a relationship with others that we do the work of intercession as a result of being the children of God who are taught by His Spirit?

We should take a look at our current circumstances. Do crises which affect us or others in our home, business, country, or elsewhere, seem to be crushing in on us? Are we being pushed out of the presence of God and left with no time for worship? If so, we must put a stop to such distractions and get into such a living relationship with God that our relationship with others is maintained through the work of intercession, where God works His miracles.  

   

Beware of getting ahead of God by your very desire to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, becoming so burdened with people and problems that we don’t worship God, and we fail to intercede. If a burden and its resulting pressure come upon us while we are not in an attitude of worship, it will only produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls.

God continually introduces us to people in whom we have no interest, and unless we are worshiping God the natural tendency is to be heartless toward them. We give them a quick verse of Scripture, like jabbing them with a spear, or leave them with a hurried, uncaring word of counsel before we go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord. Are our lives in the proper place so that we may participate in the intercession of our Lord and the Holy Spirit? Chambers, Oswald (2010-10-22). My Utmost for His Highest, Updated Edition (p. 92). Discovery House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Team YOU: Judges 16-18; Proverbs 2; Luke 7:1-30

Motivations:  Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. Elton Trueblood

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Ephesians5:8-9; Level 2: Ephesians 4:25-32

Powered Up:  God’s promises are the cork to keep faith from sinking in prayer. Thomas Watson