FELLOWSHIP DAILY WITH GOD

The Divine life within us comes from God, and is entirely dependent upon Him.

The great object of fellowship with God, that we may have more of God in our lives, and that God may see Christ formed in us.

1. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take time to meet God.

2. To this end, let your first act in your devotion be a setting yourself still before God. Take time, till you know God is very near.

3. When you have given God His place of honour, glory, and power, take your place of deepest lowliness, and seek to be filled with the Spirit of humility.

4. Then accept and value your place in Christ Jesus.

5. Look into His face with trust, till His love really shines into your heart. Make His heart glad by telling Him that you do love Him.

6. The God who revealed Jesus in the flesh and perfected Him, will reveal Him in you and perfect you in Him. Count upon it that this blessed work will be done in you as you wait on God, and hold fellowship with Him.

7. As we sink down in humility and dependence and entire surrender to God, the power of His [Christ's] death works in us, and we are made conformable to His death. And so we know Him in the power of His resurrection, in the victory over sin, and all the joy and power of the risen life.

8. As you wait before God to realize His presence, remember that the Spirit is in you to reveal the things of God.

9. Seek grace to know what it means to live as wholly for God as Christ did.

10. Just yield yourself in the faith of a perfect trust to the Ever Blessed Holy Trinity to work out all God’s purpose in you. Begin each day thus in fellowship with God, and God will be all in all to you.

– Excerpted from Andrew Murray’s The Deeper Christian Life –