Intercession

Beware of getting ahead of God by your very desire to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, becoming so burdened with people and problems that we don’t worship God, and we fail to intercede. If a burden and its resulting pressure come upon us while we are not in an attitude of worship, it will only produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls. God continually introduces us to people in whom we have no interest, and unless we are worshiping God the natural tendency is to be heartless toward them. We give them a quick verse of Scripture, like jabbing them with a spear, or leave them with a hurried, uncaring word of counsel before we go. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

Are our lives in the proper place so that we may participate in the intercession of our Lord and the Holy Spirit?

-Oswald Chambers

Hello~

One thing that has been on my mind for the last couple of days was Matthew 25: 31- 46-

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fireprepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

This verse has constantly been on my mind because the last thing that I want to do is to ignore Jes7s. God really has His way of introducing people in my life whom I have absolutely no interest- people whom I really can't love with my human strength. Remember how I said that I faced a lot of racism in my previous post? There are a lot of Chinese people who come over to Jordan and sell cheap electronics. So some people here think that I came here to sell cheap cell phones. This doesn't affect me too much, but one thing that really angers me is that some men think that we are prostitutes because of the fact that we don't wear hijab. They would hurl filthy words at us, and it really makes me feel disgusting despite of the fact that I'm fully covered up from neck to toe. Right? How can I possibly love these people if they I'm really easy because I'm smiling at them?

While I'm in them midst of this struggle, I have been experiencing the most intimate time of worship. My pr^yer request is for Him to hear worship that He wants to hear at this time. I would be walking down the street, and I can't help but to lift Him up because apparently, that's what He wants to hear. I still don't know how to treat the people that I meet as if I'm treating Jes7s, but He is guiding my every steps, and I'm really asking that he would open my eyes to see people as he sees them. 

내가 밟는 모든땅- 주를 예배하게 하소서. 주의 보혈로 덮어지게 하소서. 

Lord, make every land that I step on praise You. Cover this land with your blood.

예수닮기를, 예수 보기를, 예수만 높히길 내가 원하네. 

To be like Jes7s, to look upon Jes7s, to lift Jes7s, and Jes7s only- is what I truly want.