My Utmost for His Highest 3 / The Cross In Prayer [John 16:26] / By Oswald Chambers

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 My Utmost for His Highest 3

/ The Cross In Prayer

[John 16:26]

 

/ By Oswald Chambers

 

"At that day ye shall

ask in My name."

(John 16:26)

 

 

We are too much given to thinking 

of the Cross as something we have 

to get through; we get through it 

only in order to get into it.

 

 

The Cross stands for one thing

only for us a complete and

 entire and absolute identification

 with the Lor  Jesus Christ,

 

 

and there is nothing in which

this identification is realized

more than in prayer.

 

 

"Your Father knoweth what things

ye have need of, before ye ask Him."

 

 

Then why ask?

 

 

The i dea of prayer is not

in order to get answers from God;

prayer is perfect and complete

oneness, with God.

 

 

If we pray

because we want answers,

we will get huffed with God.

 

 

The answers come every time,

but not always in the way we

expect,

 

 

and our spiritual huff

shows a refusal to ident ify

ourselves with our Lord

in prayer.

 

 

We are n ot here to prove God

answers prayer; we are here to be

living monuments of God's grace.

 

 

"I say not that I will pray

the Father for you: for the

Father Himself loveth you."

 

 

Have you rea ched such an

intimacy with God that the Lord

 Jesus Christ's life of prayer is 

the only explanation of 

your life of prayer?

 

 

Has Our Lord's vicarious life

become your vital life?

 

 

'At that day' you wi ll be so

identified with Jesus that

there will be n o distinction.

 

 

When prayer seems to be

unanswered, beware of trying

to fix the blame on someone else.

 

 

Th at is always a snare of Satan.

You will find there is a reason

which is a deep instruction

to you, not to anyone else.

 

 

- To Be Continue -

 

 

2022/01/18

 

 

/ By Oswald Chambers