Lesson 17: Separated Unto the Holy Spirit, part 2

The second thought: God is willing and able to reveal to His servants what His will is.
 
Yes, blessed be God, communications come down from heaven still! As we read here what the Holy Spirit said, so still the Holy Spirit will speak to His Church and His people. In these later days He has often done it. He has come to individual men, and by His divine teaching He has led them out into fields of labor that others could not at first understand or approve; into ways and methods that did not recommend themselves to the majority. But the Holy Spirit does still in our time teach His people. Thank God, in our foreign missionary societies and in our home missions, and in a thousand forms of work, the guiding of the Holy Spirit is known, but (we are all ready, I think, to confess) too little known. We have not learned enough to wait upon Him, and so we should make a solemn declaration before God: “God, we want to wait more for You to show us Your will.”

Do not ask God only for power. Many a Christian has his own plan of working, but God must send the power. The man works in his own will, and God must give the grace—the one reason why God often gives so little grace and so little success. But let us all take our place before God and say: "What is done in the will of God the strength of God will not be withheld from it; what is done in the will of God must have the mighty blessing of God."


Let our first desire be to have the will of God revealed.

If you ask me, is it an easy thing to get these communications from heaven, and to understand them? I can give you the answer. It is easy to those who are in right fellowship with heaven, and who understand THE ART OF WAITING UPON GOD.

How often we ask: How can a person know the will of God? And people want, when they are in perplexity, to pray very earnestly that God should answer them at once. But God can only reveal His will to a heart that is humble and tender and empty. God can only reveal His will in perplexities and special difficulties to a heart that has learned to obey and honor Him loyally in little things and in daily life.