Comments on: What stirs your affection for Christ? http://dweston.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/what-stirs-your-affection-for-christ/ This is a blog about passion; passion of a King and His children Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:47:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Celeste Palmer, your former student http://dweston.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/what-stirs-your-affection-for-christ/#comment-45 Celeste Palmer, your former student Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:38:22 +0000 http://dweston.wordpress.com/?p=42#comment-45 The things that place a wedge between me and the Saviour are laziness in my devotions, desire for sleep and discouragement. Hi, Dr. Weston! I am your former student from Summer of 2007, Baptist House of Prayer in New York City. I have delivered the e-mail messages that your wife, Sandy, had been sending and you and your family with your messages have been included to our Intercessory Prayer Team listing along with our Praise Reports. Thank you for a blessed learning experience, for contact with your Christian family which is not always easy to come by and God bless you and your ever increasing family. Keep Baptist House of Prayer in your prayers. The things that place a wedge between me and the Saviour are laziness in my devotions, desire for sleep and discouragement.

Hi, Dr. Weston! I am your former student from Summer of 2007, Baptist House of Prayer in New York City. I have delivered the e-mail messages that your wife, Sandy, had been sending and you and your family with your messages have been included to our Intercessory Prayer Team listing along with our Praise Reports. Thank you for a blessed learning experience, for contact with your Christian family which is not always easy to come by and God bless you and your ever increasing family. Keep Baptist House of Prayer in your prayers.

]]> By: Ken Lassiter http://dweston.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/what-stirs-your-affection-for-christ/#comment-44 Ken Lassiter Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:42:56 +0000 http://dweston.wordpress.com/?p=42#comment-44 On September 9, 2007 I opened in " My Utmost for His Highest" this word for the day. After reading it over and over several times, I began to process its meaning to me. The word I understood was this. " Ken, are you measuring success by activtiy or obedience?" For sure responding to obedience sometimes requires activity, but that would be "God initiated" activity, not Ken initiated. So then that which is not of God can and does rob the joy from my life either at the moment, but many times much later because I was in the midst of what men do very well. That is stay busy to prove our worth. My worth as I have some to understand over the last 13 months is not in what I do, but in who I am in Christ. That is elementary to most, and even to me if I heard it from someone else. But to live it out is the challenge, at least to me. Here is the word from September 9. Blessings. DO IT YOURSELF "Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Corinthians 10:5 This is another aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul says, "I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ." (Moffatt.) How much Christian work there is to-day which has never been disciplined, but has simply sprung into being by impulse! In Our Lord's life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was not a movement of an impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father's - "The Son can do nothing of Himself." Then take ourselves - a vivid religious experience, and every project born of impulse put into action immediately, instead of being imprisoned and disciplined to obey Christ. This is a day when practical work is overemphasized, and the saints who are bringing every project into captivity are criticized and told that they are not in earnest for God or for souls. True earnestness is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own human nature which has not been spiritualized by determined discipline. We are apt to forget that a man is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation; he is committed to Jesus Christ's view of God, of the world, of sin and of the devil, and this will mean that he must recognize the responsibility of being transformed by the renewing of his mind. On September 9, 2007 I opened in ” My Utmost for His Highest” this word for the day. After reading it over and over several times, I began to process its meaning to me. The word I understood was this. ” Ken, are you measuring success by activtiy or obedience?” For sure responding to obedience sometimes requires activity, but that would be “God initiated” activity, not Ken initiated. So then that which is not of God can and does rob the joy from my life either at the moment, but many times much later because I was in the midst of what men do very well. That is stay busy to prove our worth. My worth as I have some to understand over the last 13 months is not in what I do, but in who I am in Christ. That is elementary to most, and even to me if I heard it from someone else. But to live it out is the challenge, at least to me. Here is the word from September 9.
Blessings.

DO IT YOURSELF
“Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5
This is another aspect of the strenuous nature of sainthood. Paul says, “I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ.” (Moffatt.) How much Christian work there is to-day which has never been disciplined, but has simply sprung into being by impulse! In Our Lord’s life every project was disciplined to the will of His Father. There was not a movement of an impulse of His own will as distinct from His Father’s – “The Son can do nothing of Himself.” Then take ourselves – a vivid religious experience, and every project born of impulse put into action immediately, instead of being imprisoned and disciplined to obey Christ.

This is a day when practical work is overemphasized, and the saints who are bringing every project into captivity are criticized and told that they are not in earnest for God or for souls. True earnestness is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own human nature which has not been spiritualized by determined discipline.
We are apt to forget that a man is not only committed to Jesus Christ for salvation; he is committed to Jesus Christ’s view of God, of the world, of sin and of the devil, and this will mean that he must recognize the responsibility of being transformed by the renewing of his mind.

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