Devotions with Pastor Dick Guilfoil

1 Thessalonians 3:2
“We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith.”

After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is,

• Because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Spirit;

He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as

• He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation.

If you seek great things for yourself saying – “God has called me for this and that”;

• You are putting a barrier to God's use of you.

As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition,

• You cannot get through into identification with God's interests.

You can only get there by losing forever, any idea of yourself.

• By letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world,
• Because your goings are of the Lord,
• You can never understand your ways.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's,

• Not mine.

God is using me from His great personal standpoint,

• All He asks of me is that I trust Him,
• Never say – “Lord, this gives me such heart-ache”.
• To talk in that way makes me a stumbling block.

When I stop telling God what I want,

• He can catch me up for what He wants without me being a hindrance,
• He can crumple me up or exalt me,
• He can do anything He chooses.
• He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

Self pity is of the devil,

• If I go off on that line I cannot be used by God for His purpose in this world.

I have "a world within the world" in which I live,
God will never be able to use me completely

• If my eyes are only on me.
• My eyes must be totally on Him when I say, “Where He leads I’ll follow, I will follow all the way.”

Pastor Dick