November 7 The Undetected Sacredness Of
Circumstances
“All things work together for
good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28
The circumstances of a saint's life are
ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God
by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at
all, but the Spirit of God understands. God is bringing you into places and
among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit
in you may take a particular line. Never put your hand in front of the
circumstances and say – I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch
this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God, therefore
never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in. Your part in
intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to
utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the common-sense
people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God's throne
and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is
going to sweep the whole world with His saints.
Am I making the Holy Spirit's work
difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him? I must do
the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances I am in
and the people I am in contact with. I have to keep my conscious life as a
shrine of the Holy Ghost, then as I bring the different ones before God, the
Holy Spirit makes intercession for them.
Your intercessions can never be mine, and
my intercessions can never be yours, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession in
our particular lives, without which intercession someone will be impoverished.