Wake Up America Seminars * * December 22, 2017

Wake Up America Seminars * * December 22, 2017

Something to Ponder

The Drawing of the Father

By Oswald Chambers

When God begins to draw me to Himself, the problem of my will comes in immediately. Will I react positively to the truth that God has revealed? Will I come to Him? To discuss or deliberate over spiritual matters when God calls is inappropriate and disrespectful to Him. When God speaks, never discuss it with anyone as if to decide what your response may be (see Galatians 1:15-16). Belief is not the result of an intellectual act, but the result of an act of my will whereby I deliberately commit myself. But will I commit, placing myself completely and absolutely on God, and be willing to act solely on what He says? If I will, I will find that I am grounded on reality as certain as God’s throne. In preaching the gospel, always focus on the matter of the will. Belief must come from the will to believe. There must be a surrender of the will, not a surrender to a persuasive or powerful argument. I must deliberately step out, placing my faith in God and in His truth. And I must place no confidence in my own works, but only in God. Trusting in my own mental understanding becomes a hindrance to complete trust in God. I must be willing to ignore and leave my feelings behind. I must will to believe. But this can never be accomplished without my forceful, determined effort to separate myself from my old ways of looking at things. I must surrender myself completely to God. Everyone has been created with the ability to reach out beyond his own grasp. But it is God who draws me, and my relationship to Him in the first place is an inner, personal one, not an intellectual one. I come into the relationship through the miracle of God and through my own will to believe. Then I begin to get an intelligent appreciation and understanding of the wonder of the transformation in my life.
Scripture Thought for the Day
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him… —John 6:44
Comments
Donna: Merry Christmas to all!
Lylla: May the Lord bless you all.
Don & Leola: Merry Christmas to each of you staff members and may God continue to bless the ministry of each of you.
Betty: Betty has been sharing Larry Wilson’s books one at a time with a man at church that has been studying various religions in search of truth. Recently she gave him one of her out of print books, The Seven Seals & the 144,000 because she had been impressed to share it with him. He was in shock and told her that just the night before he had been praying for a book on the 144,000!
Prayer Requests
Jodie & Jen: Jodie & Jen have been through a series of battles this year. Jodie has amazingly survived a brain injury, a brown recluse bite and is undergoing a legal battle. Pray for continued healing from the brain injury and that the justice system sides with the truth in the legal battle.
Vic: After further testing, Vic has learned that the cancer in his brain is not as aggressive as initially thought. He has started going through chemo treatments and will not require surgery at this point. Pray for him as he undergoes the treatments.
Sandi Koscak: Our sweet friend Sandi has had a regular struggle with the effects of chemo on her body. Please pray for her to
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