Saturday, October 4th, 2014 “1st Voice” My Utmost for His Highest “The sphere of ministration” “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:29. ________________________________________ My determination is to be my utmost for His Highest. ________________________________________ To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. ________________________________________ ISAIAH 50: 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. ________________________________________ Run Today’s Race: “Beware of the thing of which you say—“O that doesn’t matter much.” The fact that it does not matter to you may mean that it matters a very great deal to God. Nothing is a light matter with a child of God. How much longer are some of us going to keep God trying to teach us one thing? He never loses patience.” … Oswald Chambers ________________________________________ My Utmost for His Highest: by Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) ________________________________________ “The sphere of ministration” “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:29. “Why could not we cast him out?” The answer lies in a personal relationship to Jesus Christ. This kind can come forth by nothing but by concentration and redoubled concentration on Him. We can ever remain powerless, as were the disciples, by trying to do God’s work not in concentration on His power, but by ideas drawn from our own temperament. We slander God by our very eagerness to work for Him without knowing Him. You are brought face to face with a difficult case and nothing happens externally, and yet you know that emancipation will be given because you are concentrated on Jesus Christ. This is your line of service—to see that there is nothing between Jesus and yourself. Is there? If there is, you must get through it, not by ignoring it in irritation, or by mounting up, but by facing it and getting through it into the presence of Jesus Christ. Then that very thing, and all you have been through in connection with it, will glorify Jesus Christ in a way you will never know till you see Him face to face. We must be able to mount up with wings as eagles; but we must also know how to come down. The power of the saint lies in the coming down and the living down. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me,” said Paul, and the things he referred to were mostly humiliating things. It is in our power to refuse to be humiliated and to say—‘No, thank you, I much prefer to be on the mountain top with God.’ Can I face things as they actually are in the light of the reality of Jesus Christ, or do things as they are efface altogether my faith in Him, and put me into a panic? [1] ________________________________________ Prayer is not just an exercise routine God has us on; It’s our business, Our only business. Prayer is our holy occupation. Plain and simple: ________________________________________ OUR HOLY OCCUPATION REQUIRES POWER: “PRAYER alters a man on the inside, alters his mind and his attitude to things. The point of praying is not that we get things from God, but that we learn by prayer to detect the difference between Gods order and Gods permissive will. Gods order is no pain, no sickness, no devil, no war, no sin; His permissive will is all these things. What a man needs to do is to get hold of Gods order in the kingdom on the inside, and then he will begin to see how to handle the riddle of the universe on the outside.” “What might happen if I spent more time allowing God to change me and less time trying to change my circumstances?” “GOD HAS so constituted things that prayer on the basis of redemption alters the way a man looks at things.” ________________________________________ Chronological Reading- Thru the Bible in One Year: Today’s Scriptures: Matthew 2; Luke 2: 39-52. biblegateway/passage/?version=NKJV&search=matt+2,luke+2:39-52 ________________________________________ Prayers That Avail Much: October 3 “Thank You, Father, for the protocol You have given for the family to function at the highest level of love and power. First, You said the husband is the head of the family, just as You are the Head of the Church, Lord Jesus. The wife is to be in subjection to her godly husband, and the husband is to love his wife just as You love the Church. The husband and wife are to be submissive to each other. I will function in divine protocol because I want the highest level of relationship in my marriage and family, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.” Ephesians 5: 21-33. Daily Confession: “My mate and I are heirs together of the grace of life. Because we live in unity and harmony, our prayers are not hindered.” (1 Peter 3:7) ________________________________________ “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much!”…James 5:16. ________________________________________ The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much!”…James 4:8. ________________________________________ 2Timothy 2: 1-8; 2 Chronicles 7:14 To submit prayer requests: ‘E-Prayer’ (NHCC office: [email protected]) ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Quotes by: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) “But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.” More to come……………. { dbonhoeffer.org/} ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Isaiah 40: 28: Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4: 8 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ En Agape, Pastor Jim Menke [email protected] New Hope Christian Center 2240 Baty Road Lima, Ohio 45807 To be ADDED to the “1st VOICE” mailing list… please e-mail: [email protected] and type SUBSCRIBE in the Subject Line. 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