Nothing Else I need

©Nothing Else I need - Jeremy Camp

When I think of all I’ve seen nothing
Compares to what you give
And to drink of what you bring you quench
The thirst for me to live
I am satisfied by what tenderness you’ve
Shown to me and I empty all that I am

And you fill my life you’re everything to me
There’s nothing else I need anymore
And I know you are everything to me and
There’s nothing else I need anymore

I have tasted and I know this fire birthed
Inside will only grow and I’ve sought all that
This world tried to offer me and it lead me
To your feet and I empty all that I am

And you fill my life you’re everything to me
There’s nothing else I need anymore
And I know you are everything to me and
There’s nothing else I need anymore

I will lay down all my needs and you will
Come and make them new
To make you my only desire my desire
And you fill my life you’re everything to me

And you fill my life you’re everything to me
There’s nothing else I need anymore
And I know you are everything to me and
There’s nothing else I need anymore
There’s nothing else I need…

When I first really listened to this song it brought tears to my eyes. It felt so true in my heart, but then I thought of all the things that I have wanted, that I thought I've needed; like my cars, my computer, my stereo. You know, all the meterialistic things of this world. And I wondered why I felt I needed them when I truly know that He is all I need.

Lord Jesus, I know, deep in my heart, that you are everything to me, and that there's nothing else I need, anymore. Please help me keep my eyes focused on You Lord, so that I can see this truth at all times. Help me keep the things of this world loosly bound so I don't get attached to them, and drawn away from You. You are my everything. In your precious name I pray, Amen.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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.

Test of Faithfulness

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . .
Romans 8:28

It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were completely controlled by people. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, or object of our faith—the Lord Jesus Christ. God may cause our circumstances to suddenly fall apart, which may bring the realization of our unfaithfulness to Him for not recognizing that He had ordained the situation. We never saw what He was trying to accomplish, and that exact event will never be repeated in our life. This is where the test of our faithfulness comes. If we will just learn to worship God even during the difficult circumstances, He will change them for the better very quickly if He so chooses.

Being faithful to Jesus Christ is the most difficult thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else; just don’t ask us to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Many Christians become very impatient when we talk about faithfulness to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christian workers than by the world. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us, and we think of Jesus as just another one of the workers.

The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

©The Oswald Chambers Publications Association, Ltd.


This is Chambers devotional for today. So true and so awesome. His writings seem to be the exact things that the Lord puts in my head to think about, which I end up reading at a later time. I can't be anything but amazed at what God teaches me personally, and then gives me the words to explain my thoughts, which also makes me realize that I'm not the only person who thinks about these things (which the enemy throws through me constantly).

I love you, Jesus, so much for continuously humbling me and showing me how to live in humility. For making me realize on a daily basis that You are God, not me.