{"id":3741,"date":"2010-12-27T06:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2010-12-27T07:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:27:28","slug":"where-the-battle-is-won-or-lost-12-27-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3741","title":{"rendered":"Where the Battle is Won or Lost 12-27-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where the Battle is Won or Lost<\/h2>\n
A reprint of My Utmost for His Highest<\/span><\/em> by Oswald Chambers with music and journal entries.<\/address>\n

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December 27, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2019If you will return, O Israel,\u2019 says the Lord . . . \u2014Jeremiah 4:1<\/a><\/div>\n
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Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God\u2019s 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. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I must wrestle with it alone before God, and I must resolve to go through the hell of renunciation or rejection before Him. Nothing has any power over someone who has fought the battle before God and won there.<\/p>\n

I should never say, \u201cI will wait until I get into difficult circumstances and then I\u2019ll put God to the test.\u201d Trying to do that will not work. I must first get the issue settled between God and myself in the secret places of my soul, where no one else can interfere. Then I can go ahead, knowing with certainty that the battle is won. Lose it there, and calamity, disaster, and defeat before the world are as sure as the laws of God. The reason the battle is lost is that I fight it first in the external world. Get alone with God, do battle before Him, and settle the matter once and for all.<\/p>\n

In dealing with other people, our stance should always be to drive them toward making a decision of their will. That is how surrendering to God begins. Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point\u2014 a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go toward a more and more slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His<\/em> highest\u2014 our best for His<\/em> glory.<\/p>\n

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December 27, 2020<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

The line in the song\u2026.\u201dTo know You is to know You will always be enough\u201d resonated with me this morning. I know that I often question God\u2019s willingness to be enough in my life when circumstances are crowding in on me and it seems as if there is not enough time, plans or activities in place to \u201cmeet all my needs according to His riches in glory.\u201d Because I cannot see Him at work in my circumstances I often question His faithfulness and or my worthiness or whatever else is between me and complete trust and faith that\u00a0God is\u00a0meeting me at the very\u00a0point of my needs.<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dYou must come to trust Me regardless of your circumstances, <\/strong>and as Oswald Chambers writes, it may be difficult ( although all things are possible with God) to do this when you come to Me with intensity only in the middle of a crisis. Come to Me with an intense desire to know Me more outside difficult circumstances, so that you can look beyond the temporary and know that I am always with you. However, when you do come to Me in difficult circumstances, know that you can find Me working beyond the ordinary. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out\u2014plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. <\/em>(Jeremiah 29:11 MSG) \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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