Day 2
Prayer: Oswald Chambers wrote the wonderful devotional, My Utmost for His Highest in 1935. I’ve read it through now only twice. I’m just starting my third journey through it. It truly focuses much on holiness and prayer from a radical, not relevant perspective. (FYI: A college student last year told me that she was told not to read it because it was “legalistic.” Huh? I’ve found that it stretches me and inspires me…to greater discipline and a deeper. I encourage you to give it a try—www.myutmost.org has the daily readings for free!)
Oswald Chambers wrote of the battle for our souls—much like the one described in Revelation—but fought in our wills. He said, “Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time.”
Today, get alone with God. Take a journal, Bible, and pen. Fight the battle and make your decisions in writing. He calls, “Come away with Me.”
Purity: A B Simpson, founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance denomination (to which I belonged my first five years as a Christian) was a great leader. He inspired holiness, not for the sake of piety, but for leadership—so that God might have a pure and holy vessel in which to dwell and fully empower. Simpson wrote, “God chooses people He can depend upon. God is looking for people on whom He can place the weight of His entire love, power, and faithful promises.” Something “frees up” inside of us, when we allow God’s Holy Spirit to have as much of us as He wants!
Purpose: Charles Spurgeon will often be our teacher over these 21 Days—he was a preacher like not many before or after him. His passion was uncontainable. Yet, he said, “Soulwinning is the chief business of the Christian; indeed it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.” Our hope, to introduce someone to Christ—the living, loving God—over the next 21 days is not meant to stretch us…but to become our lifestyle. For life, from this season/juncture, my hope is that you will share Christ every day with someone…that you will look, and watch, and wait…God knows, if you will…He will bring people into your path. There are so many lost, rebellious hurting people. Look past the junk and into the heart of another, okay?