We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance. Sanctification means that we are made the children of God, and the natural life of a child is obedience - until he wishes to be disobedient, then instantly there is the intuitive jar. In the spiritual domain the intuitive jar is the monition of the Spirit of God. When He gives the check, we have to stop at once and be renewed in the spirit of our mind in order to make out what God's will is. If we are born again of the Spirit of God, it is the abortion of piety to ask God to guide us here and there. "The Lord led me," and on looking back we see the presence of an amazing design, which, if we are born of God, we will credit to God.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God's appointed order, and be ready to discover the Divine designs anywhere.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God. I shall never do that - in all probability you will have to, if you are a saint. There never was a more inconsistent Being on this earth than Our Lord, but He was never inconsistent to His Father. The one consistency of the saint is not to a principle, but to the Divine life. It is the Divine life which continually makes more and more discoveries about the Divine mind. It is easier to be a fanatic than a faithful soul, because there is something amazingly humbling, particularly to our religious conceit, in being loyal to God.

The way” means God’ s way, the pathway prepared for us; not our way; not any kind of way (Proverbs 14:12); not man’ s way; but the direct way of duty and command.

In such a way the Lord will be sure to lead and guide us.

The Lord answered the servant’ s prayer exactly as he prayed, step by step.

“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I receive light for the next.”

As thou dost travel down the corridor of T ime Thou wilt find many doors of usefulness; To gain some ther e are many weary steps to climb, And then they will not yield! but onwar d press, For ther e befor e thee, in the distance just beyond Lies one which yet will open; enter ther e, And thou shalt find all r ealized thy visions fair Of fields mor e vast than thou hast yet conceived.

Press on, faint not; though briars str ew thy way , The gr eatest things ar e yet to be achieved; And he who falters not will win the day .

No man can shut the door which God sets wide, He bids thee enter ther e—thy work awaits inside.

Keep to your post and watch His signals! Implicitly r ely on the methods of His guidance.

Every godly prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished —“Before he had finished praying . . .” This is because Christ has pledged in His Word, “My Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” (John 16:23). When you ask in faith and in Christ’s name—that is, in oneness with Him and His will—“it will be done for you” (John 15:7).

Since God’s Word cannot fail, whenever we meet these simple conditions, the answer to our prayer has already been granted and is complete in heaven as we pray, even though it may not be revealed on earth until much later. Therefore it is wise to close every prayer with praise to God for the answer He has already given.

“Praise be to the LORD, . . . who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness.” (Genesis 24:27)

MESSAGES FOR THE MORNING WATCH When we believe God for a blessing, we must have an attitude of faith and begin to act and pray as if the blessing were already ours. We should respond to God as if He has granted our request. This attitude of trust means leaning upon Him for what we have claimed and simply taking it for granted that He has given us our request and will continue to give it.

When people get married, they immediately have a new perspective and begin to act accordingly. This is how it should be when we take Christ as our Savior, our Sanctifier, our Healer, or our Deliverer. He expects us to have a new perspective, in which we recognize Him in the capacity and the role we have trusted Him for, and in which we allow Him to be everything to us we have claimed by faith.

SELECTED The thing I ask when God leads me to pray, Begins in that same act to come my way.