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Jeremy221
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 Christ-Awareness by Oswald Chambers

Christ-Awareness by Oswald Chambers


…and I will give you rest. —Matthew 11:28


August 20
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.

My Utmost for Highest, August 20
Link: https://utmost.org/christ-awareness/

 2019/8/20 2:09Profile
Jeremy221
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 Re: Christ-Awareness by Oswald Chambers

It’s good to be aware that Chambers uses some of these terms, like rest, in his own peculiar way. If you want to understand them better, read more of My Utmost or listen to the teachings of Art Katz who meditated on them for several decades. Art encouraged his listeners read My Utmost as part their daily devotions.

 2019/8/20 2:16Profile
EAGLEFLYING
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 Re: Christ-Awareness by Oswald Chambers

Amen.. Thank you for posting..
I love Oswald Chambers He says it like it is...

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.

Amen if we depend on the LORD for our identity we will be lovers of GOD first and He will get the Glory.. which He should always..
I learned the JOY principle as a young believer.. I try to live it and at times fall short..
J JESUS first.. Others second.. You last..


Just a thought.
in Jesus
Sister Frannie


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