Let's Look at the Circumstances

Romans 8:28 “All things work together for good to them that love God.”

In my reading this morning I ran across an article on the circumstances of life. I liked the author’s take on it. We all go through changes of circumstance in our lives, some of our own making, some not. Since change is inevitable, how we approach it becomes a factor. I, for one, have a tendency to get nervous when it looks like circumstance has shaken my world again. I trust in the Lord. However, my initial reaction is skeptical, not of the Lord but of the people involved in the changes. I’m working on that.

What I gleaned from the article was that God often changes our circumstances to a position more conducive for us to be His representative for others.

Here’s some points I took away from the article.

1.   The circumstances of a Believer's life are ordained of God. In the life of a Believer there is no such thing as chance. God, by His providence, brings us into circumstances that we cannot understand at all, but the Spirit of God understands.

2.   God is bringing us into places, among people and into conditions in order that the intercession of the Spirit in us may take a particular line.

3.   Never put your hand in front of the circumstances and say - I am going to be my own providence here, I must watch this, and guard that. All your circumstances are in the hand of God; therefore never think it strange concerning the circumstances you are in.

4.   Your part in intercessory prayer is not to enter into the agony of intercession, but to utilize the common-sense circumstances God puts you in, and the common-sense people He puts you amongst by His providence, to bring them before God's throne and give the Spirit in you a chance to intercede for them. In this way God is going to sweep the whole world with His saints.

Ask yourself this question, “Am I making the Holy Spirit's work difficult by being indefinite, or by trying to do His work for Him?” We must do the human side of intercession, and the human side is the circumstances we are in and the people we are in contact with. We have to keep our conscious life as a shrine of the Holy Ghost, and then as we bring the different ones before God, the Holy Spirit makes intercession for them. The Holy Ghost makes intercession in our particular lives for others, without which intercession, someone will be impoverished.

Circumstances we find ourselves in look very differently when we see how God is using us to bring others to Him. Once again, it’s not all about me or you but how we fit in God’s Big picture.