[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":18},["ShallowReactive",2],{"library-my-utmost-for-his-highest-1222":3},{"id":4,"date":4,"session":5,"title":6,"blocks":7},"1222","","December 22 — The Drawing Of The Father",[8,11,14,16],{"type":9,"text":10},"scripture","No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him. — John 6:44",{"type":12,"text":13},"paragraph","When God draws me, the issue of my will comes in at once — will I react on the revelation which God gives; will I come to Him? Discussion on spiritual matters is an impertinence. Never discuss with anyone when God speaks. Belief is not an intellectual act; belief is a moral act whereby I deliberately commit myself. Will I dump myself down absolutely on God and transact on what He says? If I will, I shall find I am based on Reality that is as sure as God’s throne.",{"type":12,"text":15},"In preaching the gospel, always push an issue of will. Belief must be the will to believe. There must be a surrender of the will, not a surrender to persuasive power; a deliberate launching forth on God and on what He says until I am no longer confident in what I have done, I am confident only in God. The hindrance is that I will not trust God, but only my mental understanding. As far as feelings go, I must stake all blindly: I must will to believe, and this can never be done without a violent effort on my part to disassociate myself from my old ways of looking at things, and by putting myself right over on to Him.",{"type":12,"text":17},"Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp. It is God who draws me, and my relationship to Him in the first place is a personal one, not an intellectual one. I am introduced into the relationship by the miracle of God and my own will to believe, then I begin to get an intelligent appreciation and understanding of the wonder of the transaction.",1791784886685]