Quote from Forum Archives on May 20, 2004, 9:33 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Word for Today, Thu, 20 May 2004: Taking Possession of Our Own Soul
Dear friends,

Oswald Chambers did not live a long life, but God used his words
in his short life to be direct, blunt, perhaps even "heavy
hitting", but hitting and reaching the mark right on.

Today's message is a very typical Chambers message, and I believe
that Oswald is a "man of God", a man guided by the Holy Spirit to
both preach and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yours in Christ,
Brian

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May 20

Taking Possession of Our Own Soul

By your patience possess your souls
Luke 21:19

When a person is born again, there is a period of time when he
does not have the same vitality in his thinking or reasoning
that he previously had. We must learn to express this new life
within us, which comes by forming the mind of Christ (see
Philippians 2:5 ). Luke 21:19 means that we take possession of
our souls through patience. But many of us prefer to stay at the
entrance to the Christian life, instead of going on to create
and build our soul in accordance with the new life God has
placed within us. We fail because we are ignorant of the way God
has made us, and we blame things on the devil that are actually
the result of our own undisciplined natures. Just think what we
could be when we are awakened to the truth!

There are certain things in life that we need not pray
about moods, for instance. We will never get rid of moodiness
by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives. Moods
nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance, not in
our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to
the moods which arise as a result of our physical condition, but
we must never submit to them for a second. We have to pick
ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then
we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to
do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simply that
we wont. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and
determination lived out in our flesh.

Taken from www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/today/, the RBC
Ministries page. My Utmost for His Highest Daily Devotional is
provided by RBC Ministries, C 2001 RBC Ministries -- Grand
Rapids, MI 49555-0001

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Brian Masinick, mailto:masinick@yahoo.com
Home page: www.geocities.com/masinick/

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