In my devotional today

[Mrs Dewey Smith]

Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.


This morning, as I made my way through some reading, this thought came out to me and really touched home.

I have struggled recently with too many things that I simply shouldn't be struggling with. I have forgotten those important parts of my Christian walk...leaning on the Father and taking it all to Him through my prayers and cries for strength.

We do often tend to forget, though some may only falter for a moment, some of us faint completely and begin allowing those thoughts of depression and defeat to enter in. It takes us time and prayer, study and filling up on His Word to regain our footing again and realize we were never defeated in the first place. that it was only a trick satan attempted to pass over us.

Sister Deanna

[debelynne]

My daily devotional was on "Chastening"............

August 14, 2005

"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, MY son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou are rebuked of Him." Hebrews 15:5

"It is very easy to quench the Spirit; we do it by despising the chastening of the Lord, by fainting when we are rebuked by Him. If we have only a shallow experience of sanctification, we mistake the shadow for the reality, and when the Spirit of God begins to check, we say--oh, that must be the devil.

Never quench the Spirit, and do not despise Him when He says to you--"Don't be blind on this point anymore; you are not where you thought you were. Up to the present I have not been able to reveal it to you, but I reveal it now." When the Lord chastens you like that, let Him have His way. Let Him relate you rightly to God.

"Nor faint when thou are rebuked of Him." We get into sulks with God and say--"Oh, well, I can't help it; I did pray and things didn't not turn out right, and I am going to give it all up." Think what would happen if we talked like this in any other domain of life!

Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my ideal of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly."

"My Utmost for His Highest: Oswald Chambers' Classic Daily Devotional