ICCC NEWSLETTER MAY 2012

MEI

BERITA INTERN UNTUK

ANGGOTA DAN KOMUNIKASI BAGI KALANGAN BISNIS DAN

PROFESI KRISTEN

ICCC (INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHAMBER OF COMEMRCE) ADALAH

MIMBAR DIMANA PESAN KRISTUS BAGI KITA DI ZAMAN INI

DIJABARKAN, DIBAGIKAN DAN DINYATAKAN TERHADAP DUNIA

BISNIS

NATIONAL BOARD

National President Bunan Djambek Vice Presidents:

Admin/Secretary Eliezer H. Hardjo

Finance/Treasurer: Johanis S. Najoan

Membership/Mentoring/ Network Manimbul L. Sitorus Simon Aditan

Teaching / Training Benjamin B. Juwono Ridwan Naftali

Business Development/ Micro-Enterprise Tonny Soetjoadi Rudolf A.S. Sinaga

Intercessors (Mrs.) Josephine S. Sitorus

(Ms.) Hermina M. Usmany Eddy S. Kristiawan

Kantor Nasional ICCC Indonesia:

Website: www.iccc-indonesia.com Pertokoan Pulo Mas Blok B I / 8, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan. Jakarta 13260

Telp (021) 4890211, fax: (021) 4722274. E-mail: [email protected],

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Dari Mejanya National President Tuhan! Allah itu baik, sangat baik ! Kita dapat mengakhiri bulan April 2012 , bulan yang penuh dengan kebaikan dan anugerah Allah! Bagaimana tidak, delegasi kami pada tanggal 2 April tiba kembali di tanah air dengan selamat dipenuhi dengan berbagai berkat, secara rohani maupun jasmani setelah mengikuti ICCC Asia Regional Conference di Bangkok dari tanggal 29 Maret 2012 . Akan tetapi saya pribadi masih belum puas dan

bertanya apakah sesungguhnya “hidden agenda” dari Allah bagi delegasi Indonesia yang diutus oleh DIA? Maka pada pertemuan bulanan lalu terungkap bahwa ada beberapa jiwa yang telah dimenangkan dan masih ada yang sedang di proses. Juga pada pertemuan sebelum keberangkatan kita putuskan hal-hal yang perlu dikemukakan sekiranya kita ditunjuk jadi host untuk ARG selanjutnya, ternyata kita bukan saja diputuskan untuk jadi host bahkan di beri bangsa-bangsa se-Asia untuk dijangkau! Kita ditunjuk untuk menyelengarakan South East Asia Sub-Regional meeting tanggal 6-8 September 2012 yang akan datang dengan tema: “A New Wave in the Marketplace” sesuai FirmanNya di Mazmur 2:8: “Mintalah kepada-Ku, maka bangsa-bangsa akan Kuberikan kepadamu menjadi milik pusakamu, dan ujung bumi akan menjadi kepunyaanmu.” Dahsyat bukan? Rupanya Indonesia termasuk dalam rencana Allah yang lebih besar lagi, seperti kita ketahui WPA 2012 akan dilaksanakan pada tanggal 14-18 bulan ini dengan puncaknya pada tanggal 17 sore harinya di Gelora Bung Karno. Karena WPA 2012 adalah tempat berkumpulnya umat dari lebih dari 200 bangsa-bangsa, dan kita mengimani setelah usai acara ini, kita akan melihat dan menunggu terwujudnya janji-janji Allah tentang kebangunan rohani seluruh dunia dengan Indonesia sebagai epicentrum-nya. Nah bagaimana dengan‘Marketplace Track’ WPA 2012 yang telah terbentuk selama ini? Ini adalah kekuatan yang luar biasa untuk men-transformasi dunia sesuai pula dengan visi Demos Shakarian, pendiri FGBMFI Internasional dalam buku “Vision Intensified” yang ditulisnya pada tahun 1950-an. FGBMFI yang nanti tanggal 25 Juli 2012 akan memperingati hari jadinya yang ke-60 di Denpasar dengan tema “New Wave” seperti WPA 2012! Para pelaku marketplace track, termasuk ICCC Indonesia pada tanggal 11 April 2012 yang lalu telah membentuk Indonesia Market Network (IMN) yang mempunyai misi untuk memenangkan dunia melalui dunia usaha. Dan kICCC Indonesia di SEA Sub-region Conference melanjutkan pula pelayanan marketplace untuk mentransformasi bangsa-bangsa di dunia. Nah saudara-saudaraku kiranya sharing saya ini lebih memperat kita untuk memperbesar Kerajaan Allah di dunia ini.

Bunan Djambek National President ICCC INDONESIA www.iccc-indonesia.com

BERITA ICCC INDONESIA 2012

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ICCC INDONESIA

WORLD PRAYER ASSEMBLY 2012 World Prayer Assembly (WPA) 2012 yang akan

berlangsung di SICC Sentul pada tanggal 14 sampai dengan 17 Mei 2012, semakin dekat. ICCC Indonesia menghimbau kepada seluruh member ICCC

Indonesia untuk mengambil bagian dalam ”historical event” ini dimana akan berkumpul delegasi sekitar 220 negara dan 350 kota di Indonesia akan ikut

mengambil bagian.

Puncaknya adalah Konser Doa yang akan dihadiri sekitar 100 ribu orang, diantaranya 20 ribu anak-anak di Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Senayan pada tanggal

17 Mei sore hari. Untuk Acara tanggal 17 Mei sore ini tidak dikenakan biaya dengan prinsip ”First come; First served”

Para pemimpin aras nasional, gereja-gereja dan

marketplace track bersama children, teen dan youth dan delegasi dari seluruh negara peserta akan mengambil bagian dalam Acara spektakuler

Perhimpunan Umat TUHAn di Akhir Zaman ini.

INDONESIA MARKETPLACE

NETWORK (IMN)

Pada tanggal 11 April 2012 yang lalu, bertempat di

Plaza Indonesia. Lantai 2, telah diadakan pertemuan

dari beberapa marketplace ministry dalam rangka

persiapan WPA 2012 dan TUHAN telah menuntun

dalam kesempatan tersebut untuk membentuk sebuah

Network yang diberi nama: Indonesia Marketplace

Network (IMN) yang nantinya akan go global menjadi

International Ministry.

ICCC Indonesia menjadi salah satu anggota dan pendiri

disamping FGBMFI Indonesia, BOM, JDK, JPDK,

PKKO, KBC, The Multiplicator dan Meek Foundation

dan nantinya akan diperluas dengan mengajak semua

marketplace ministries di Indonesia bergabung.

Untuk waktu yang akan datang, selain masing-masing

marketplace ministry mengadakan kegiatan masing-

masing juga akan ada program-program bersama dan

selain WPA 2012 juga ada gerakan yang disebut AYO

(Adopt Your Office) Movement sebagai bagian dari

MY HOME Movement untuk menggiatkan doa di

kalangan marketplace dan memberkati lingkungan dan

jalan-jalan dimana kita berada.

ICCC ASIA

LAPORAN ICCC ASIA REGIONAL

CONFEFRENCE

FORUM ANGGOTA

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The Prosperity Test:

How God blessed me

triple in 16 days

By: Sean

Just

recently, I’ve

been

struggling to

give my tithe

to God –

because I

will be going

negative.

I’ve had this bad habit of waiting 3 months until I give God 3

months’ worth of my tithe. I’m not saying that it’s a sin to do

so. All I’m saying is that it’s much better if I give God my tithe

the moment I get my income for the month. This is my

testimony about tithing and God’s great financial blessings to

me.

This entry has been inspired by God’s blessings in my life –

His molding of my character, and His recent prosperity test

for me. To you oh Lord, I give my greatest thanks and praise.

May this entry always glorify you!

And for the month of February, I’ll be going negative if I do

give my tithe to God. Bad budgeting.

You see, I’ve been supporting campus missionaries. And

there’s this specific campus missionary that I give a sizable

amount to. My support for this person is charged via credit

card. On November 2011, I cut that specific credit card due

to bad service. What happened was, my support for that

campus missionary got cut too – 4 months behind as of

February 2012. I was only able to transfer the billing to my

other credit card on Feb 2012.

That money isn’t mine. I pledged it to God to give to that

campus missionary. Because it was 4 months already, it was

an even bigger amount. I knew that I’ll be going negative on

March’s credit card billing. I asked God if my support to that

campus minister could be considered as my ‘tithe’ –

apparently God said ‘NO’. Little did I know that God’s ‘No’ is

because He wants to bless me more than that.

Let’s roll back a little bit – where I am now

I’m an internet marketer and SEO specialist. Right now I’m

the proprietor and managing director of SEO Hacker – an

internet marketing company. We offer a wide variety of best-

quality services and we prove our worth by applying our

internet marketing strategies to our own website. Right now

we have 10 wonderful full-time workers (including me!) and a

lot of part time writers and are looking for more people!

The company was started by God in my life through helping

me test and experiment with this blog, God and You. I was

not born rich. My family is not rich. I had no money to start a

business. No capital at all – ZERO. And yet, God started the

company with me from doing freelance SEO work – to

signing contracts with big name clients. God is my provider.




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The company earns a good amount each month and I get to

keep a portion for myself – enough for me to spend for

myself, my dates with my wonderful girl, my family, etc… It

was a blessed amount. It was also more than enough for me

to give and support other people in need. Which, I believe,

God has called me to. And to top it all off, I get to save a fair

amount at the end of each month.

All these blessings were brought to me by God just like that

in the year 2010 when I graduated college. He just provides!

But last year (2011), I had no new contracts to boost up my

savings and earnings even if I worked hard for them.

Strange. Still, I gave my tithe to God and my support to other

people.

But February 2012 was different – I was going to go red.

I didn’t want to go red.

I want to get married this year – and, I can humbly and

honestly tell you that I’m VERY far off financially.

Caution: Tithe only if you want to be blessed. Otherwise,

spend it on what you want.

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be

food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD

Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of

heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have

room enough for it.” – Malachi 3:10

There is no logic in tithing. How can I get richer than how I

could be if I give 10% of what I have every month to the God

who created this universe? Does He need my money?

No. Tithing is an aspect of complete faith in action. It is a no-

logic act. Only people with real faith in God will be moved to

tithe because they love God and want to honor the Great

Provider with the results of their work.

How God said that my support cannot be considered as

my tithe:

At first, I thought that my compromise with my tithe being my

support for the campus missionary is alright. But there were

three people who told me that I had to tithe and my campus

missionary support cannot be considered as my tithe.

Aneglyn Co - She’s the girl of my dreams. And once, while I

was driving with her after I’ve made that ‘compromise with

God’, she told me that, for her, tithing should be different

than my support for other people. Strike one.

Charles Sy - He’s the youngest brother of pastor Dennis Sy.

A really good friend and ‘older brother’ to me. He suddenly

just chatted me one night – asking me if I’m already getting

married. Of course I told him about my financial status – and

the first thing he asked me was: “Are you giving your tithe?” I

was convicted even if I was giving my campus missionary

support. It was a confirmation from God that my tithe is

different – and I shrugged it off.

Bill Hybels - Senior Pastor of Willowcreek church. Powerful

preacher and an amazing life-example of how he

surrendered his finances to God. I was listening to Billy

Hybels in his current podcast ‘Financial Series 2012′ – and I

was strongly reminded of the real reason behind tithing. In

this podcast he said “Is tithing like breathing to you? Is it the

first check you write? Only those with a high view of God will

answer a resounding ‘yes’.”

Right there and then, I knew that I had to refresh my

perspective. I had to have a high view of God when it comes

to money and His provisions. I didn’t waste any more time. I

gave my tithe to God.

Everything I have right now is because of Him. Every talent,

every skill, every teammate, every penny, every hair of my

head – is because of His great love for me. Because our God

wants us to enjoy life to its full even here on Earth.

What happened to my February?

God is Amazing!

By faith, I gave my tithes and paid what I pledged to the

campus missionary. I’m expecting to have a big hit on my

savings when March comes. Well, it’s March now. March 16,

2012 to be exact. In that 16 days of March, 3 contracts were

signed. So much so that I do not have enough manpower to

handle more contracts and I’m rejecting new clients who are

looking to hire our services.

To top it all off, my offshore client gave us so much work on

February that this offshore client alone could pay for all my

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support and tithe to God! AMAZING! I didn’t go red – not

even for a month! God is indeed faithful in seeing me

through.

That small step of faith – of me giving my tithe even if I was

going to take a hit on my savings (and will give up the idea of

getting married this year), resulted into a big blessing. I

cannot even begin to believe that three contracts have

already been signed these 16 days (and 2 more on the

way!). All praise and Glory be to God.

There is a Prosperity Test

And God gives it to each and every one of us. This is when

God gives us the talents for us to grow or keep or spend for

ourselves. I want to encourage you to let your talent grow

and to give. There is no better way to spend your money

than to use it to further God’s Kingdom here on Earth.

I know that whatever happens from this point on with my

finances, God is faithful and He has miraculously helped me

in this specific time of my life. May He continue to bless me

and use me to bless others. (Kirimkan kutipan, artikel, kata-kata mutiara atau kisah

pengalaman anda yang dapat memperkuat iman pembaca

Newsletter ini kepada TUHAN baik itu berupa pengalaman

pribadi maupun orang lain dengan ciri utama bisnis dan rohani)

TUJUAN ICCC

International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) lahir dari kepatuhan terhadap visi yang diberikan selama kurun waktu enam tahun kepada seorang usahawan Swedia J. Gunnar Olson, yang diteguhkan dengan nubuatan dan terbukanya pintu kesempatan disekitarnya yang sebelumnya tertutup. ICCC merupakan panggilan yang serius dan menantang bagi pengusaha Kristen untuk mengenali jaman yang sedang kita masuki dan dengan terang dari pengenalan itu memasuki dimensi iman yang baru yang disediakan bagi mereka yang …” takut akan TUHAN … berbicara satu sama lain … dan menghormati namaNya.” (Maleakhi 3: 16) Visi ini memanggil para pengusaha dan kaum profesi di seluruh dunia yang terbeban untuk saling berhubungan, bertukar pendapat, memperdagang-kan

barang dan menyediakan jasa, saling mendukung dan menguatkan secara rohani dan materi. Berdasarkan eksistensi dari visi itu sendiri memproklamirkan otoritas Kristus yang mutlak diseluruh dunia. Pada intinya ICCC adalah kehendak TUHAN untuk memperluas tali kasih-Nya, melalui gereja-Nya, didalam dunia usaha. Hal ini menuntut para pelaku bisnis mencari terlebih dahulu Kerajaan-Nya dan segala Kebenaran-Nya. Urapan tersedia bagi mereka yang dengan mata melihat dan telinga mendengar panggilan jaman. Sebagaimana halnya Raja Daud yang menerima urapan untuk menjadi raja, jauh sebelum dia menjadi Raja, yang keadaan pada saat urapan diberikan sama sekali tidak mungkin bagi Daud untuk menjadi Raja, demikianlah ICCC memanggil para pengusaha Kristen sebelum peristiwanya terjadi untuk mengalami kebebasan masuk ke dalam dimensi baru, dimana sasaran, strategi dan perencanaan bersama-sma diwujud-nyatakan sesuai dengan iman di dalam Kristus. ICCC mencanangkan panggilan itu sejalan dengan rencana TUHAN bagi jaman ini sebagai kunci memperoleh berkat dan pertumbuhan dan agar dapat bangkit berkemenangan diatas gelombang ombak yang mengancam.

Panggilan ICCC: “Mereka akan menjadi milik

kesayanganKu sendiri, firman TUHAN semesta

Alam pada hari yang Kusiapkan. Aku akan

mengasihi mereka sama seperti seseorang

menyayangi anaknya yang melayani dia.

Maka kamu akan melihat kembali perbedaan

antara orang benar dan orang fasik, antara

orang yang beribadah kepada TUHAN dan

orang yang tidak beribadah kepada-Nya.” (Maleakhi 3: 17-18)

KEYAKINAN IMAN ICCC:

Satu-satunya TUHAN pencipta segala sesuatu dalam kesatuan Trinitas: Bapa, Anak, dan

Roh Kudus.

Keilahian TUHAN Yesus Kristus. Kelahiran-

Nya dari rahim seorang Perawan. Karya

penebusan dosa manusia melalui kematian-Nya diatas kayu salib. Kebangkitan-Nya. Hak

otoriatas diri-Nya atas dunia dan

Kedatangan-Nya yang kedua kali dalam Kuasa dan Kemuliaan-Nya.

Alkitab, sepenuhnya sebagai Firman TUHAN

yang memberikan inspirasi dan berbagai peraturan bagi kehidupan yang dilandasi

iman.

Keselamatan pribadi orang berdosa dan

kebutuhannya untuk mengalami proses

regenerasi melalui karya Roh Kudus dalam

VISI DAN TUJUAN

ICCC

menuju menjadikannya sebagai manusia

yang dikehendaki oleh TUHAN, seutuhnya.

Transformed Working Life (TWL) adalah Pelatihan resmi dari Kantor Internasional bagi anggota ICCC dalam memperlengkapi anggota dengan pengetahuan dan pemahaman latar belakang, tujuan dan penerapan prinsip-

prinsip Kerajaan TUHAN bagi dunia bisnis dan profesi. TWL diperuntukkan bagi anggota dan dapat diikuti secara Cuma-Cuma, namun terbuka juga bagi siapa saja yang berminat untuk mengikutinya.

TWL diselenggarakan dalam bahasa

Indonesia dan dilengkapi dengan buku panduannya, yang telah diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia juga, sehingga para peserta betul-betul akan memperoleh manfa’at yang besar dan mengalami transformasi dalam kehidupan pribadi maupun bisnisnya. TWL difasilitasi oleh anggota National Board yang terlatih dan dikoordinir oleh V.P. Teaching: Benjamin B. Juwono bersama dengan Teaching Team: Ridwan Naftali Transformed Working Life (TWL) akan ditayangkan dalam salah satu channel di Indonesia agar dapat dimanfaatkan oleh para pebisnis & profesional Kristiani di Indonesia bagaimana menerapkan prinsip-prinsip Kerajaan Tuhan dalam kehidupan berbisnis dan bekerja mereka. TWL bagi members secara rutin diadakan pada hari Sabtu ke 2 setiap bulan dan terbuka dan dianjurkan bagi semua member untuk mengikutinya sebagai pembekalan wajib.

Submission to God’s Will

Our wills are naturally selfish. We love to have our own

way. It’s not easy to submit to the will of another, unless

there’s some strong motive that impels us to submission.

The carrying out of our wills in a selfish way only leads to

more selfishness and to a stronger inclination to have our

own way. It’s this selfish inclination in the will that makes it

necessary for God to demand submission from us. His will

is never selfish, but always benevolent. The cheerful doing

of it always leads to an increase of benevolence in us.

Therefore, when God demands us to submit our wills to

him, he’s doing that which is best for us. The more

consideration for others and true benevolence is developed

within us, the more our natures are purified and exalted and

the more we are able to fulfill the purpose of our creation.

Submitting to God is often the hardest of all tasks, yet it’s

the most necessary if we’re to be exalted to fellowship with

God and enjoy the highest development of our faculties and

powers. Selfishness always tends to degrade. It’s ignoble---

exercise tends to dwarf and blight the finest things in our

characters. The adoption of a submissive attitude toward

God and his will, paves the way for the natural development

of those qualities within us which are most worth

developing, and which ennoble us most when they’re

developed. The more our souls run out God-ward, the more

like him we become; and the more like him we become, the

happier and more useful we are. Unselfish devotion to

benevolent service toward God and toward our fellow man

enriches the heart and life as nothing else can do, and leads

the way to happiness, peace, and contentment, which make

one truly blessed.

Submission to God is the one necessary thing in order to

enjoy the Christian life. The more fully we’re submitted to

his will, the more cheerfully we can carry it out, and the

sweeter and richer will be the joy of doing it. Reluctant

submission to God is not real submission. Reluctant

obedience is never real obedience. It’s only when the heart

responds to God willingly and cheerfully that the power of

such service to make one happy is realized. We must

conquer our reluctant wills. “The essence of sacrifice of self

is the sacrifice of the will. Unwilling offerings are a

contradiction, and in fact, there are no such things. The

quality of unwillingness destroys the character of the

offering and robs it of all sacredness. Reluctant Christianity

is not Christianity.”

True nobility of both the inner and the outer life comes from

submission to, and cooperation with, God. The nature of our

relations with God depends upon the extent of our

submission to him. This is well illustrated in the relation of

husband and wife. When two marry, and there’s no merging

of the wills and purposes, but each retains his or her

individuality, standing apart from the other in wish and

desire, in choosing and willing, their union can never be a

happy one. They must yield themselves to each other. There

must be a merging of their wills into each other, a

combining of their purposes, a consideration of each other, a

sacrificing of the individual will. The husband and wife who

really love each other can enjoy each other’s society and

draw near to each other in spirit and affection. This makes

their union a blessed reality, and a source of more true joy

than any other natural relation. Those who thus enjoy each

other are the ones who have sacrificed self and lost sight of

selfish considerations; each desires to please the other and

each finds his or her happiness in the happiness of the other.

In the Scriptures, Christ is represented as being the husband

of the church, and the church is taught to submit to him as a

wife should submit to her husband. The wife submits to her

husband because she loves him---if she submits from any

other reason she must be unhappy in her submission. The

submission, that comes from love, and is the willing

response of love, is the source of the deepest and truest

happiness that can come from human sources. So the

submission to God, which is acceptable to him, and which

reacts in blessedness to the soul who submits, must be based

upon love. The secret of such submission is thus stated by

John, “We have known and believed the love that God hath

to us.” (1 John 4:16) So he exclaims in the next breath,

“God is love.” Only the truly submitted heart can fathom the

love of God, or can love God with that self-enriching love,

which inspires devotion and causes us to delight in God. The

fervor of love softens the will and makes it flexible. When

we love, it is easy to obey; it is easy to submit. All the

irksomeness and compulsion is taken out of religion when

the heart is full of love toward God. The more we love, the

easier it is to serve, and the more joyful is that service.

Self-surrender is the heart of all true religion. Paul told the

secret when he said of a certain church, that they “first gave

their own selves.” Then they could endure persecutions.

They could bear with patience the things, which came upon

them, and still be full of joy. The yoke of God was not

galling to them. The sufferings that came upon them were

not hard to be borne. They were overrunning with love.

Their hearts were knit together with bonds stronger than

death. They could be exceedingly joyful in all their

tribulations, because they had first given themselves. Oh, the

barrenness and unhappiness, in the lives of many persons,

because they are trying to give service, when they haven’t

given themselves! They are trying to serve God, but at the

same time they’re serving themselves. They try to combine

these two services, and what an unsatisfying, irksome

service they find it! How often their will is contrary to

God’s will! How often their will breaks out to claim its own

way! This conflict of wills shuts out from their lives the

blessed sense of God’s nearness and approval, which is

granted to those who have first given themselves; who have

yielded their all without reservation to God; who have

surrendered themselves, and their wills, and now find a

continuous inspiration to service in the delight of their own

hearts in serving. A religion, which is not based on self-

surrender is a mere form. It is of no more value than the

religion of the pagan, for it is the same kind of a religion

that he has. True religion is love---love flowing out in

devotion, and service, and self-surrender. The forms of

religion are nothing without the real inner substance. If we

have the form, without the inner content, we are poor

indeed; but if we are thoroughly submitted to God, we have

the inner content of religion, no matter in what form it

manifests itself.

The attitude of our wills toward God is thus beautifully

expressed by one writer, “A man’s will, should be an echo,

not a voice; the echo of God, not the voice of self. It should

be silent as some sweet instrument is silent till the owner’s

hand touches the keys.” It is self-surrender that tunes all the

strings of our hearts to a unison of purpose, and makes them

responsive to the touch of the Divine Musician. And when

we are attuned to God’s will through self-surrender, our

hearts will be filled with his melodies; there will be celestial

harmonies in our lives; our hearts will join with the angels in

their chorus of praise, and we shall be raised up together

with Christ and made to sit in heavenly places with him.

Self-surrender is the key that unlocks all the riches of our

own natures, and causes them to bud and blossom and

produce rich fragrance. Every noble thing in us is made

nobler, by submission; every beauty is rendered more

beautiful---a thousand new beauties and riches are brought

into the life that was not there before. Self-surrender empties

our hearts and makes them ready to receive divine treasures.

Love, joy, faith, peace, contentment, and all the blessed

fruition of righteousness have their roots sunk deep in self-

surrender.

Many people seem to think that surrender to God

impoverishes men, and that it is a wholly one-sided thing,

but God asks that we be emptied of self only that he may fill

us and that he may give himself to us in the fullest measure

of our capacity and willingness to receive him. If we hold to

anything of self, or of the world, it’s because we’re not

willing to be filled with God and don’t believe that he will

be to us more than all else beside. All lack of submission,

shuts our God from that part of our nature, which is not

submitted, and prevents him from having control of that part

of the will, which remains un-submitted.

Open the door of thy heart wide. Unlock its every chamber.

Hand over the key to God. Entreat him to come in, and fill

you to your fullest capacity. Empty your heart of self, all

selfish plans, purposes, desires, reluctance of the will and

every hesitation to obey. Give him your all. Let not one

thing be kept back. When all is his, the floods of his grace

will flow into your soul till you will wonder why you ever

hesitated to yield your all to him. He yields his all to us. He

withholds no good thing when we are yielded to him fully.

So the yielding is mutual, although he gives more than we,

because he is greater than we. He asks the surrender of our

wills only that he may guide us into paths wherein we never

could walk without his guidance---paths of peace beneath

the sunny skies of his love. Cheerful self-surrender has a

wonderful power to banish the gloom and the clouds of

human life. The un-surrendered life is like the mountain

whose top is ever veiled in clouds.

It has been said, “Peace is: to will as God wills.” We all

desire peace, but this is the secret of peace. When we have

said, “Not my will be done,” the conflict of wills has ceased.

Then we can will as God wills, and his peace which passeth

all understanding will fill our hearts; then in the quiet,

joyous eventide, the dew of heaven will fall upon our souls,

refreshing and blessing them, and calm content will

overspread our life like the quiet of the evening twilight.

True happiness is predicted on perfect conformity to God’s

will by our wills, both in our characters and in our conduct.

The surrendered life is necessarily a happy life, for it

possesses the elements of true happiness within itself. The

un-surrendered life is an unsatisfied life, always filling itself

with evanescent joys, which fade away as soon as they are

grasped and leave nothing of satisfaction and contentment

behind. “The one misery of man is self-will; the one secret

of blessedness is a conquest over our own wills. To yield

them up to God is rest and peace.” Self-surrender “means

that our wills are brought into harmony with his, and that

means that the one poison drop is squeezed out of our lives,

and that sweetness and joy are infused into them, for what

disturbs us in this world is not trouble, but our opposition to

trouble. The source of all that frets, and irritates, and wears

away our lives, is not in external things, but is the resistance

of our wills to the will of God expressed by external things.”

It’s fighting against circumstances, which makes them hard

to bear. Self-surrender smoothes our way, lightens our

burdens, fills our hearts with a song of joy, and gives us

courage for the battles of life. Where obedience is free, and

not reluctant, constant, not irregular, spontaneous, not

constrained, we never feel that we have a “hard row to hoe,”

for God’s sustaining grace and the joys of his salvation give

much strength of soul and such buoyancy of spirit that life’s

conflicts are all won, and our lives are kept sweetly

victorious.

The submitted will is not weakened because of that

submission. We don’t have to be passive and feeble in order

to submit to God. Submission frees the will from the

bondage of sin, and it can then, act normally. The submitted

will is: the will acting with God instead of against him. The

un-submitted will, acts against him. The submitted will is an

active, vital, powerful will, acting in conjunction with God’s

will and directed by his will. Submission doesn’t mean the

destruction of our will; it only means that our strength will

be turned into the right channels, so that we shall desire

God’s will. The cooperating will loses none of its strength

through submission. It joins its strength with God’s strength,

and being directed by him into the most effective channels,

it can accomplish what would be impossible for it to

accomplish without being surrendered. Our wills should

speak, after God’s will speaks. If our wills speak first, they

may bring us into many miseries and troubles and be the

cause of many failures and sins. We must let God speak, and

then when he speaks, echo the same thing. Thus shall we be

workers together with God in the accomplishment of his

grand and glorious purpose.

People like to have their own way, and often think that if

they surrender to God they can’t have their own way

anymore. However, when we have chosen God’s will as our

will, we always have our own way when God has his way.

Some are afraid to submit to God’s will lest they should

have to give up their own cherished plans or ambitions; lest

they should not be able to choose for themselves. But we

can always choose for ourselves if we choose what is best,

for God’s will is that which is best. If we don’t choose

God’s will, but choose some other way, we’re choosing less

than the best for ourselves. Therefore, we are robbing

ourselves of that which is best for us, and we thereby lose

the joy and peace that are the fruits of choosing his will.

Some fear to take God’s will, because they distrust God’s

fidelity to them, and feel that they can choose best for

themselves. This is doubting God’s wisdom and love, for

God is wiser than we---his tender love for us will cause him

to choose what is best for us, just as a loving parent will

choose for his child that which is best for it. We must submit

to God in faith. A submission that is full of doubts

concerning God’s faithfulness and love is always a

hesitating submission, and that very hesitation robs it of the

joyfulness that comes from confident, trusting submission.

When we are fully submitted, he sometimes lets us choose

our own course. The author has had a number of such

experiences, one of which will be mentioned. There was a

time when two courses were open, and a choice must be

made between the two. To follow either would be doing the

Lord’s service, but which would please the Lord to follow

was not clear, though earnest prayer was made to know the

will of the Lord. For a time there seemed to be no answer.

Then one day God said, “You can do just as you choose;

you can go ahead as you are or you can take up the other

line of work.” This proved a great source of comfort and

inspiration to my soul. To feel that God saw in me sincerity

enough to do his will to let me choose for myself what sort

of work I should do, inspired my heart to faithfulness and to

devotion to him, as perhaps nothing else could have done.

In order for God to allow us the privilege of choosing for

ourselves in such matters, the will must be wholly

surrendered to his will. But what a blessed sense of soul-rest

and what enriching of the nature come through this self-

surrender! All the blessedness of which we are capable

comes to us through the channel of the submitted will, but

any drawing back from God’s will, closes the channel and

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(source: Jerry’s Haven n Tell)

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