The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. (Daniel 11:32 ESV)
How much do you depend upon
conferences and teachers to keep you going? Must you attend meetings just
because you feel that the last lot you got has been used up and you must get a
fresh supply? Or have you been emancipated from all human props and put into a
place of glorious independence, because you KNOW YOUR GOD? It doesn't matter if
you are plunged into the middle of the Sahara, you know your God and can
stand independently of all natural helps – this thing has become YOU! That is
the kind of knowledge that means power. That is the kind of experience which
overcomes the world. That is the kind of thing that makes all the other systems
go down, and you rise triumphantly above them. That was the secret of the
apostolic church. Let kings do what they like, let the people rage – it goes on,
and it is the Roman Empire that goes to pieces before this thing, and not this
thing that goes down before the Roman Empire. It is an independent personal
knowledge of God, resultant from an inward birth, that lives. Not only an
objective truth, but a subjective power, and it is a great day when the
slightest fragment of known truth becomes a vital personal experience in its
working ability. That is what we want. First-hand knowledge, not second-hand
truth.
May God work this into our very beings until it becomes us. Take it in
fragments if you like, and ask the Lord to work it out in you and make it live
in you.