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Living Out My YES, LORD Response.

I am His. I am God's property by HIS PURCHASE.
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore, glorify God in your body"(I Cor.6:19).

I am His by MY SURRENDER, as I present myself to Him.
"I urge you therefore. brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship" (Rom.12:1).

With that assurance, I will: Accept what God gives-With joyful heart and continued thanks.
YES, LORD...I thank You for Your goodness.
"In everything give thanks; for this God's will for in Christ Jesus"(These.5:18).

Be content with what He withholds-believing that it is for my good. YES, LORD...I bow to Your loving sovereignty.
"No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly"(Ps.84:11).

Relinquish what He takes-companionship, health, material things. YES, LORD...even these.
"I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret..."(Phil.4:11-12a).

Endure what He allows-in His strength, not my own.
YES, LORD...without complaint.
"And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. ' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me"(2 Cor.12:9).

Hold all earthly things loosely-Living with eternity's values in view.
YES, LORD...even so, come, Lord Jesus!
"Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way ,what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God..."(2 Pet.3:11-12a).

Live today for Jesus Only-celebrate each moment as a gift from God.
YES, LORD... to the praise of the glory of Your grace.
"He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf"(2Cor.5:15).

The Holy Spirit...My "Meat Tenderizer"

I discovered a spiritual illustration in my kitchen cupboard! The label of my ADOLPH'S Meat Tenderizer carries an extraordinary promise: Turns commonplace cuts into gourmet products!

YES, LORD, I'm just a commonplace cut, I'd' like to be a gourmet product fit for the Master's use, How can this happen? Five simple steps are given:

  1.  Moisten all surfaces. The dealings of God in my life may produce tears. The hurts of life are real and painful. My heart first needs to be moistened. All surfaces.
    YES, LORD, top to bottom, every part of my life is available to You. I hold nothing back.
  2.  Sprinkle tenderizer generously. The Holy Spirit is my Tenderizer. He is at work in my life. He transforms my heart of stone into a tender heart of flesh (Ezek.36:26,27). He liberally sprinkles God's promises on my hurting heart to encourage me, lift me up.
    YES, LORD, help me accept Your loving work in my life.
  3.  Pierce deeply with a fork at 1/2 inch intervals. Pain, affliction, sorrow have a redemptive purpose in my life. My tough, stubborn will needs to be broken. But God doesn't break my spirit. He loves me and desires to bring out His best in me. Sometime trouble seems to invade every area of my life at once. Every half-inch of my world cries out for relief! But YES, LORD, I open even the deepest areas of my life to you.
  4. Marinate. God' work in my heart takes time. Oh, Lord, waiting is so hard! I am impatient to get out of my difficulty. But my Heavenly Father knows I need time to accept what He is doing in my life. YES, LORD, give me patience while you marinate me!
  5. Bake, broil, barbecue, roast or microwave immediately. I cry, "Enough already! Surely I don't need more heat! "But my Lord must apply heat to separate imperfections from the pure gold. The fire of affliction is the refiner's fire. My oven experience is essential. When God's time is right when I have learned the lessons He has been trying to teach me, He will deliver me from the oven my affliction in His own way.

The result of this painful process? I will be a gourmet product, fit for my King! I will have a tender, sensitive, responsive heart of flesh toward my Lord. A heart that joyfully, quickly, genuinely responds to Him with a YES, LORD, YES! The label on my jar of Meat Tenderizer says 100% Natural. But God's spiritual process is 100% Supernatural. Man cannot duplicate it. Only the Holy Spirit can prepare my heart to please God.

Recently, the ingredients in my jar of Meat Tenderizer have been modified. The label now reads: NO MSG. Monosodium Glutamate was found to be injurious to our health. In God's process of maturing me though trials, the Holy Spirit is the only active ingredient-perfectly pure and always working for my good.

YES, LORD... I trust your loving work in my life!

Habakkuk 3:17-19 For...

The prophet Habakkuk searched his own heart to see how he would personally respond during a worst case scenario...the total devastation of his agrarian world. Would he be able to say, YES,LORD in the midst of all that God told him would happen? His confident testimony is recorded in Hab.3:17-19.

"Though the fig tree should not blassom, And there be no fruit on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive should fail, And the fields produce no food,

Though the flock should be cut off from the fold, And there be no cattle in the stalls,

Yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

The Lord God is my Strength..."

Let's imagine some worst case scenarios in our present high tech society. How would we respond as Christians IF-WHEN we face total economic, political, social disaster...and personal abversity? In the format of Habakkuk's declaration:

"Though my husband loses his job, or I, as a working single lose mine...

And there is no food on the table, or money for rent mortgage...

Though unemployment benefits run out, all S & L's fail and my life savings are wiped out... And the world's stock markets crash...

Though earthquakes, floods, forest fires, drought, tornados and hurricanes devastate America the Beautiful...

And our nation's food supply runs out, and supermarkets are bare...

Though my children rebel, go on drugs, get in trouble with the law, or are killed in a drive-by shooting...

Or serious illness strikes some of my family members...

Or I am diagnosed with cancer...

Though my husband has a heart attack, and I suddenly find myself a widow...

Though I grow old and Social Security and Medicare is phased out, and pensions are canceled...

Or I am seriously ill, and Hillary's health plan puts me at the bottom of the list because of my age...

Though the Lord uses a godless foreign country to punish our disarmed America and we experience a surprise nuclear attack...

Though our homes and everything we own are confiscated...

Though the U.S. Constitution is revoked, and our civil rights are null and void...

Though churches are closed, and Christians taken by force to holding facilities...'

Could I still say, YES LORD, I accept Your loving, sovereign hand on national affairs and in my personal life? Could I affirm, YES LORD, come what may, I believe Your promise: "I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future..."(Jer 29:11).

"The Lord is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him"(Andrew Murray). God will work all things for my good and for His glory!

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--This sharing is from our CCM friends-Leona Choy

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(Mrs. Leona Choy, a public speaker, author, world traveler and missionary, is president of radio station WTRM in the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester VA. She is a contributing editor of Challenger.)

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