Monday, August 6, 2012

Are We One?

My Utmost For His Highest

‘The Cross represents only one thing for us— complete, entire, absolute identification with the Lord Jesus Christ— and there is nothing in which this identification is more real to us than in prayer. “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him” (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness with Him. If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.’ CHAMBERS

John 17:11,20-21
11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Do you completely identify with Jesus or do you consider that taking religion a little too far?  What does complete identification mean anyway?  Moving into a cave?  Don’t recall Jesus doing that.  Seeking to do the will of the Father .. oh I do remember Jesus doing that.  Laying your life down for the good of others .. .yep, He did that too.  Rejecting the world’s definition of right for the Word’s definition of right?  Yep again …

It is the Spirit that enables the ‘oneness’ coupled with our obedience.  We have to stop worrying about what ‘might’ happen if we say ‘yes’ and worry about what will not happen if we say ‘no’.  We will have missed the point … so self-absorbed that we miss the eternal .. point … We must stop treating our faith like a personality or character attribute and treat it for what it is ….. our very essence … (2 Corinthians 5:17)

To answer the question of WWJD? It is simple … He reflected the Father … Shine for Him today.

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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