Sensitive to God
"Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36)
Jesus warns His disciples to take heed lest
their hearts be over charged with surfeiting and drunkenness and in cares of
this life. Even when we are serving God,
organization and such responsibilities can take our prayer time and we lose the
edge of our spiritual life. "And
that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that
they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth
of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth"
(Job 11:6). Setting time apart to search
ourselves before God is called watching. We must wait till the voice of God
reaches to us to reveal to us our spiritual condition. It would be a great pity if that watchfulness
is cut off from us. We must have seasons
of prayer to search ourselves and dig into ourselves, lest the love of the
world and the cares of this world blind us and make us
sin against God. When our eyes are
blinded, presumption comes into us. When
we are getting strong in the Lord there comes into us a certain amount of
confidence and presumption. When we
receive many answers to prayer we become presumptuous. God will tell us our errors. People may not find fault with us because we
have established a good name. God wants
to make you a very sensitive and a very powerful instrument. God wants to make you sensitive in your
thoughts so that you might be perfect. A
sensitive instrument must be carefully handled and kept carefully in a safe
place. God knows how to prepare you, but
Satan tries to prevent it. Very often
wrong friends and going to wrong places makes you dull spiritually. God wants to make your mind very keen and
your heart very full of His thoughts.
Your prayer may take the same time but you would have uttered all your
heart. The reason is that the Word of
God is deepening you. Then the Word of
God will reach you in prayer and you will be equal to it. When God asked Abraham for his son, he was
equal to it. God did not ask him for his
son, when he was in