When I run into problems with my co-workers or my boss, Christ comes out. However, each time this has happened the Lord has shown me that the time was not wasted. So I begin to analyze, what did I do wrong? Before long I was discouraged… The day before I was full of joy, with a song, singing on my way to work. Many times I have come from a morning time with the Lord and felt as though not much has happened. Use the word and the hymns as your prayer and sing to Him. Rather, open to Him, apply the blood, and enjoy Him. Do not seek a feeling, do not try to carry out a concept you have constructed. We should not come to the Lord in the mornings with anything other than a desire to touch Him. He was to bear a son of his wife according to the Lord’s promise. However, God’s way was the normal way, according to life. The result was something abnormal and fleshy, and out of this effort to interpret God’s promise Ishmael came forth representing the line from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When Abraham heard of God’s promise of a son, his mind automatically went to work. Our mind loves to construct abnormal and abstract imaginations that are not practical or experienceable. When I heard the testimonies of the saints and read in the ministry about a secret, intimate time with God in the morning that carries us through the day, I had grand and – confessedly – religious expectations. Initially I thought it should be like a bolt of lightning. My experience in my morning times with the Lord has been a constant work in progress. (Psalm 119:147)Įvery night we can anticipate the dawn and every morning we can wake up excited to meet with our dear Lover who is new and fresh every morning! I anticipated the dawn and cried out I hoped in Your words. This lovely Person has known us before the foundation of the world and had chosen us in Christ Jesus to be holy and without blemish before Him in love! This love in relation to us is not general or broad, but specific and romantic. So every morning our Lord is waiting, hoping, and desiring to have intimate and personal fellowship with us. At other times we wake up groggy knowing that there is nothing new to look forward to. Sometimes we hardly slept the night before and wake up excited because of a pleasant situation or task that awaits us. Sometimes there is dread within us due to some situation or task we know we will encounter. From the moment we wake up, we begin to prepare for our day. We must come to Him, and then He will meet or need and we will meet His need.Įach day we have a wonderful opportunity. In the parable of the prodigal son in Luke He is the father eagerly awaiting His son’s return, and at His first seeing His son at a distance, He runs to Him. In Revelation, we see that He is very patient, standing at the door knocking, waiting. How wonderful it is to give our dear Lord the first place in all things! God desires to have the preeminence, but He does not force us. (The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1963, Vol. We must cooperate with God’s desire by practicing to give Him a free way to spread Himself into every part of our being.
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