Leslie Glesmann

4 yrs

From Andrew Murray’s “The Believer’s Daily Renewal”

“Christian, there is a terrible danger to which you stand exposed in your inner chamber. You are in danger of substi. tuting prayer and Bible study for living fellowship with God-the living interchange of giving Him your love, your heart, and your life, and receiving from Him His love, His life, and His spirit. Your needs and their expression, your desire to pray humbly and earnestly and believingly, may so occupy you that the light of His countenance and the joy of His love cannot enter you. Your Bible study may so inter est you, and so waken pleasing religious sentiment, that the very Word of God may become a substitute for God himself. this is the greatest hindrance to fellowship because it keeps the soul occupied instead of leading it to God himself Therefore we go out into the day's work without the power of an abiding fellowship, because in our morning devotions the blessing was not secured.
What a difference it would make in the life of many if everything in the closet were subordinate to this one thing: I want through the day to walk with God; my morning hour is the time when my Father enters into a definite agreement with me and I with Him that it shall be so. What strength would be imparted by the consciousness that God has taken charge of me, He himself is going with me; I am going to do his will all day in his strength; I am ready for all that may come.”