TRUE FAITH

If you try to hold back the Holy Spirit within you, with the desire of producing more inner spiritual experiences, you will find that He will break the hold and take you again to the historic Christ. Never support an experience which does not have God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions or insights you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you place your experiences above Him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? You must allow Him to be Lord over you, and pay no attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. Then there will come a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience, and you can truthfully say, "I do not care what I experience—I am sure of Him!"

Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is.

©The Oswald Chambers Publications Association, Ltd.

Yes, more of Chambers writings. I can’t help but use his writings to tell what Jesus has showed me, he has such beautiful words.

I like when he says “Never support an experience which does not have God as its Source and faith in God as its result.” So true, if I could only do that all the time! And I can’t tell you how many times the Spirit has taken me again to the historic Christ, to show me (over and over) who He really is and what He really did for all of us, to get me out of that desire of producing more inner spiritual experiences. Because, truthfully, it’s not really about me, is it.