HOW TO LIVE A VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN LIFE: TAKE BREAKS AND SIT WITH GOD
Do you want to rekindle the flame for God? Do you need a refreshing in your Spirit?
Heres how. Take time out for God. Not a few minutes or hours but days in which you and God alone canbe uninterrupted. This shows God you care for him and his work. In fact you will pay dearly without this. We all need refreshings. Extra blessings come when we wait with God.
Season of Waiting
"And when forty years were expired, there
appeared to him in the wilderness…an angel of the
Lord...saying....now come, I will send thee into
Egypt" (Acts 7:30-34).
Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a
season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go
forth again to minister. There is no time lost in
such waiting hours.
Fleeing from his enemies, the ancient knight
found that his horse needed to be re-shod.
Prudence seemed to urge him on without delay, but
higher wisdom taught him to halt a few minutes at
the blacksmith's forge by the way, to have the
shoe replaced; and although he heard the feet of
his pursuers galloping hard behind, yet he waited
those minutes until his charger was refitted for
his flight. And then, leaping into his saddle
just as they appeared a hundred yards away, he
dashed away from them with the fleetness of the
wind, and knew that his halting had hastened his
escape.
So often God bids us tarry ere we go, and fully
recover ourselves for the next stage of the
journey and work. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
Waiting! Yes, patiently waiting!
Till next steps made plain shall be;
To hear, with the inner hearing,
The Voice that will call for me.
Waiting! Yes, hopefully waiting!
With hope that need not grow dim;
The Master is pledged to guide me,
And my eyes are unto Him.
Waiting! Expectantly waiting!
Perhaps it may be today
The Master will quickly open
The gate to my future way.
Waiting! Yes, waiting! still waiting!
I know, though I've waited long,
That, while He withholds His purpose,
His waiting cannot be wrong.
Waiting! Yes, waiting! still waiting!
The Master will not be late:
He knoweth that I am waiting
For Him to unlatch the gate.
--J. D. Smith
Heres how. Take time out for God. Not a few minutes or hours but days in which you and God alone canbe uninterrupted. This shows God you care for him and his work. In fact you will pay dearly without this. We all need refreshings. Extra blessings come when we wait with God.
Season of Waiting
"And when forty years were expired, there
appeared to him in the wilderness…an angel of the
Lord...saying....now come, I will send thee into
Egypt" (Acts 7:30-34).
Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a
season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go
forth again to minister. There is no time lost in
such waiting hours.
Fleeing from his enemies, the ancient knight
found that his horse needed to be re-shod.
Prudence seemed to urge him on without delay, but
higher wisdom taught him to halt a few minutes at
the blacksmith's forge by the way, to have the
shoe replaced; and although he heard the feet of
his pursuers galloping hard behind, yet he waited
those minutes until his charger was refitted for
his flight. And then, leaping into his saddle
just as they appeared a hundred yards away, he
dashed away from them with the fleetness of the
wind, and knew that his halting had hastened his
escape.
So often God bids us tarry ere we go, and fully
recover ourselves for the next stage of the
journey and work. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
Waiting! Yes, patiently waiting!
Till next steps made plain shall be;
To hear, with the inner hearing,
The Voice that will call for me.
Waiting! Yes, hopefully waiting!
With hope that need not grow dim;
The Master is pledged to guide me,
And my eyes are unto Him.
Waiting! Expectantly waiting!
Perhaps it may be today
The Master will quickly open
The gate to my future way.
Waiting! Yes, waiting! still waiting!
I know, though I've waited long,
That, while He withholds His purpose,
His waiting cannot be wrong.
Waiting! Yes, waiting! still waiting!
The Master will not be late:
He knoweth that I am waiting
For Him to unlatch the gate.
--J. D. Smith
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