Christ-Awareness

from Oswald Chambers

. . . and I will give you rest —Matthew 11:28

Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as something to fight against, not as something you should allow to remain. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don't allow yourself to say, "Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I'm sure I must have this cleared up with them already." Learn to leave others alone regarding this. Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until your completeness in Him is absolute.

A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, "Lord, what is your will?" A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that God answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God always answers prayer.

If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness tremendously. Jesus says, "Come to Me . . . and I will give you rest," that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.

--Crises reveal character. When we are put to the test the hidden resources of our character are revealed exactly. 

我并没有祈求这啊。。

给我的下几个月..

God is fighting for us
Pushing back the darkness
Lighting up the Kingdom
That cannot be shaken
In the Name of Jesus
Enemy's defeated
And we will shout it out
Shout it out

I will live, I will not die
The resurrection power of Christ
Alive in me and I am free
In Jesus' Name

Bpit-bpet..

Thank God for closed doors. Praise Jesus for opening more!

Expect God to answer your prayers

By Rick Warren

God wants to direct you in life, but two things need to line up: You have to ask the right person, God, and you have to ask with the right attitude — in faith, expecting an answer. 

Have you ever asked God for something and didn't expect to get it? That's why you didn't get it. God works in our lives according to faith. So many times we say, "God, please guide me!" and we walk away, not even waiting for guidance. We just immediately start to work. We say, "God, I want you to give me wisdom; help me make the right decision." But we don't really expect him to do that. We think it all depends on us. 

James 1:5-6 says, "If you want to know what God really wants you to do, ask him ... but if you don't ask in faith, don't expect the Lord to give you any solid answer" (LB).

God has promised to give us wisdom, if we will ask. Wisdom is seeing life from God's point of view. Wisdom is the ability to make decisions the way God makes decisions.

Think about this: God never makes a bad decision. He never makes a mistake. He says if we trust him and listen to him, he will guide us. But we must ask in faith.

Note to self: don't say prayers out of habit..and don't just pray and forget abt it.. keep close each day thanking Him for the little and big things in life..wait upon Him by reading and spending time in His word. Powerful and effective way to quieten your heart and let Him speak to you abt your life..minus out the distractions of gadgets, unhealthy thoughts, relying on self, even the penning down of self condemnation thoughts. . Speak forth only good beliefs..and expect good answers from Him. Love Jesus!

Best gift this year!