When God seems distant - Chapter 14 off 'Purpose Driven Life'

This happens as part of trial to test our friendship with Him. To get a picture on how this could end up be, take a look at what happened to Job's life. His was the most extreme case.

When this happens - what should we do? To keep on doing the thing we do with Him when we're up in our lives - like praising Him, talking to Him, etc. That's the challenge.

January 12th - Watchman Nee's The Joyful Heart

Message: If we are truly walkin with the Lord, we would always be in clear on what His wishes, wants, desires, and what nots in regards to direction, etc for our life.

We need no intermediaries to tell us in a nutshell (unless of course that He desires for things to be so, cos He works in ever new ways, which men could never make sense of).

January 11th - Watchman Nee's The Joyful Heart

January 11

God is a good listener - very good one.
Proof: Book of Job, where 35 out of 42 chapters which recorded nothing but conversations between several men, namely Job and his friends.

Message: Feel free to talk to our heart's content to the Lord.

January 9th & 10th - Message(s) I got off Watchman Nee's 'The Joyful Heart':

January 9th
To live life not in the dark, but as transparent as possible even in the eyes of men.
For He knows everything of us, watching us like 24/7.


January 10th
Just as how the Lord has treated you, treat the others the same.
For we are forgiven, so should we forgive others.
For we have the priviledge of grace, so should we grant grace to others.

January 8th

Message I got off Watchman Nee's 'The Joyful Heart':

To throw everything old of us, for Christ to work fully in us.

From the works of 'Watchman Nee' - The Joyful Heart

Following are the messages I got, from my reading off the book 'The Joyful Heart - Daily Meditations' by Watchman Nee.
I personally wish to thank my friend, Ashlee for sending me the book after she had done reading it.


January 1st
God works in ever new ways. We do not dwell in how God had worked in the past, but to move forward to see his ever new ways of working things outs.


January 2ndMen may give up, but God never stops at something until they are fulfilled.


January 3rd Do not wait for assignments to come to you, but keep an eye look out for works that are already out there, waiting for people to take on.


January 4thChrist is: the light, the bread of life, the way. In short, Christ is everything.


January 5th Having been touched, we are able to give out so much more, more than what other people or even ourselves could ever imagine.


January 6th This particular one seemed to have impacted my friend Ashlee, as I could see highlighted keynotes of this particular devotion, in the bookcopy. Personally, I know of the 2nd part below, but I have no idea at all before this, on the 1st part. For me, it was just praying and praying til God fulfills the promise, yet not expecting Him to fulfill (though I've learned that we would have to persistently pray til God fulfills the promise; in a way, we should come to expect the fulfillment of the promise.

Prayer consists of 2 parts:
- Pray til God gives you a promise on what you are praying for.
- Pray til God fulfills the promise.


Jnnuary 7thDidn't really get any messages off here for meself, so yea.
If you would have anything spoken to your heart upon reading this particular day's devotion, feel free to contribute under comments section. :)

Saul takes his own life

1 Chronicles 10: 1 - 14

Saul, king of the Israelites was on the brink of losing a war he was fighting against the Philistines. His enemies are now near victory, and they were that close to cornering him. He thought he'd rather die than being abused by his enemies upon capture, so requested that one of his men to kill him with a sword. That man wouldn't, so Saul did the deed himself.

His death came about as result of his disobedience to the Lord in various things. His throne then was passed to David, just as the Lord promised.

Lessons

• Never mess with the Lord - we'd definitely pay.
• His words always come to pass - be it good news or bad news.