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Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not
your emotions. Tell God you are ready to be offered as a sacrifice for Him. Then
accept the consequences as they come, without any complaints, in spite of what
God may send your way. God sends you through a crisis in private, where no other
person can help you. From the outside your life may appear to be the same, but
the difference is taking place in your will. Once you have experienced the
crisis in your will, you will take no thought of the cost when it begins to
affect you externally. If you don’t deal with God on the level of your will
first, the result will be only to arouse sympathy for yourself.
“Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27). You
must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to
experience what the altar represents-burning, purification, and separation for
only one purpose-the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in
or directed toward God. But you don’t eliminate it, God does. You “bind the
sacrifice . . . to the horns of the altar” and see to it that you don’t wallow
in self-pity once the fire begins. After you have gone through the fire, there
will be nothing that will be able to trouble or depress you. When another crisis
arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What
fire lies ahead in your life?
Tell God you are ready to be poured out as an offering, and God will prove
Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
"I am already being poured out as a drink offering .
. ." - 2 Timothy 4:6
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