Luke 24:21

“But we trusted…and beside all this, today is the third day…”

If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else.  Dejection springs from one of two sources-I have either satisfied a lust or I have not.  Lust means-I must have it at once.  Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track.  The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Excerpt of February 7th from, My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers.

Copyright 1963 by Discovery House Publishers.

Lord, I see that You strike at the heart of every doctrine that places all its potency on one small aspect of Your Word.  Lord, I claim a promise because it is in the Word, but can I expect to claim one with out claiming all the rest?  Father, I know I can not pick and choose the promises.  That would be like picking and choosing which of Your teachings or words I will believe.  Either I will have it all or I will have none of it.  I thank You for being an all or nothing God.  Lord, I want to jump into the river not just the trickle.