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.A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person who really knows what health is. A child of God is not aware of the will of God because he is the will of God. When we have deviated even slightly from the will of God, we begin to ask, “Lord, what is your will?” A child of God never prays to be made aware of the fact that God answers prayer, because he is so restfully certain that God always answers prayer.

If we try to overcome our self-awareness through any of our own commonsense methods, we will only serve to strengthen our self-awareness tremendously. Jesus says, “Come to Me . . . and I will give you rest,” that is, Christ-awareness will take the place of self-awareness. Wherever Jesus comes He establishes rest— the rest of the completion of activity in our lives that is never aware of itself.

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August 20, 2014

Journal Entry for Today-JDV

Lord, this devotional says that when I am aware of You, my connection with You  is not right; that when I am well connected to You, it is such a natural thing, that I am not even aware of being in Your will, I am Your will.  Perhaps the lesson is as Dave wrote yesterday, simply live in joy and peace in the moment, because when we are truly connected to You we are not even aware of any other way to live.

And God says…”Trust in God with all your heart, do not rely on your own understanding and I will make your paths straight. Seek first the kingdom of God, which is Jesus, and everything else you need in your day will be provided. It is not unusual for you to focus on your life circumstances, or difficult situations, but it is not beneficial. When you focus on your circumstances, you give them power.  When you focus on Me and are connected, your circumstances do not even register.  You know that I will make your paths straight, you know that I will give you rest, you know that I will give you the desires of our heart. When you are connected with Me, you can simply live in the moment, knowing that all things work for good of those that love the Lord.  You know that I have a good plan for you, to prosper and keep you. Simply be connected to Me and live out these promises without even considering the how or why. You simply know and understand that I am God, and I love you with an all consuming love.”