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Comforter of the comfortless, bind my soul with you in intercession! Wherever there are broken hearts, mend them; captives, release them; smoking wicks, fan their sparks; bruised reeds, make them pillars in your temple. Bless especially my loved ones, and those who misunderstand and hate me. Grant them your salvation, and meet their particular needs with your gifts.
August 23
Prayer—Battle in “The Secret Place”
“When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:6).
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August 22
“I Indeed … But He”
“I indeed baptize you with water … but He … will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11).
Have I ever come to the point in my life where I can say, “I indeed … but He …”? Until that moment comes, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means. I indeed am at the end, and I cannot do anything more—but He begins right there—He does the things that no one else can ever do. Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light? That is exactly where He comes. Wherever I know I am unclean is where He will put His feet and stand, and wherever I think I am clean is where He will remove His feet and walk away.
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August 21
The Ministry of the Unnoticed
“Blessed are the poor in spirit …” (Matthew 5:3).
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August 20
Christ-Awareness
“… and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once, asking Him to re-establish your rest. Never allow anything to remain in your life that is causing the unrest. Think of every detail of your life that is causing the disintegration as something to fight against, not as something you should allow to remain. Ask the Lord to put awareness of Himself in you, and your self-awareness will disappear. Then He will be your all in all. Beware of allowing your self-awareness to continue, because slowly but surely it will awaken self-pity, and self-pity is satanic. Don’t allow yourself to say, “Well, they have just misunderstood me, and this is something over which they should be apologizing to me; I’m sure I must have this cleared up with them already.” Learn to leave others alone regarding this. Simply ask the Lord to give you Christ-awareness, and He will steady you until your completeness in Him is absolute.
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“They shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying: Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they are, and were created.”—Revelation 4:11
Humility: The Beauty of Holiness.
August 19
Self-Awareness
“Come to Me …” (Matthew 11:28).
God intends for us to live a well-rounded life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside. Then we tend to fall back into self-examination, a habit that we thought was gone. Self-awareness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of our life in God, and self-awareness continually produces a sense of struggling and turmoil in our lives. Self-awareness is not sin, and it can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a totally new set of circumstances. Yet it is never God’s will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in Him. Anything that disturbs our rest in Him must be rectified at once, and it is not rectified by being ignored but only by coming to Jesus Christ. If we will come to Him, asking Him to produce Christ-awareness in us, He will always do it, until we fully learn to abide in Him.
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