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What is the Proper Way of Consecration?
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum
CALLER: What is the proper way of consecration? Is it just fasting and praying, and getting yourself aside to God? Or can you divide it up?
HC: What is the proper way of consecration? Actually, consecration has to do with looking at myself honestly: Am I really committed to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Now the first thing that we ought to do is get more and more acquainted with the will of God, the God who has saved us. And the only way we can do this is by reading the Bible. The more we read the Bible, the more we're going to know God's will for our lives, the more we're going to know how we are to live. This I would say is the first thing to do, to become as acquainted as we possibly can with God's Word. Because as we read the Word of God, our eyes will be more and more focused on God, on Christ. And this will help us to trust Him more. And thus we will be moving toward consecration.
Now prayer is very helpful. And it's especially helpful if we're reading the Bible. As we see our weaknesses, as we measure ourselves against the standard of God's holiness as revealed in the Bible, we cry out to God, "Oh Lord, strengthen me in this department of my life. Help me to repent of this sin or that sin. Give me a hatred for it." Our prayers become very meaningful you see. They relate right to what we read in the Bible.
Now we can go through all kinds of pious activity, like fasting and lots of other things. But it finally is going to be very meaningless. The important thing is that we honestly recognize that in order for us to become more holy, in order for us to grow in sanctification, we've got to know the will of God. And we can't know the will of God unless we read about it from the Bible. The Bible is the revelation of the will of God.
And once we read about it, and we really mean business that we want to be obedient to it, then we're going to find that we've got a lot of things to pray about.
CALLER: Okay. Thank you.
HC: You're welcome. Good night.