Is God In What You Are Doing?

Beloved, the principle of Life in your spirit is to be the guiding principle of all your service in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I do not mean Life in your surroundings. 

The Lord may take you to a place where death reigns, but if death reigns in you, you may as well give up the whole thing at once. 

You may be there, and the Life of God may be in you to meet that situation to triumph over it; 

But mark you, if you begin to touch what you call pieces of work for God and there is no Life in your spirit, the thing is dead in your spirit; you have no right there until you get in your spirit the Life of God relative to that thing. 

Don’t touch it, or you will be found in dead works, trying to do something where there is no vital principle at all.

A lot of people hold on and continue in certain realms, certain spheres, certain companies, certain connections...

And they are there merely from the standpoint of natural reasoning and argument, sentimentality, tradition, or somehow thinking that by staying in, something is going to be done...

While in their spirit they know the thing is dead, and they have no Life there.
 
Oh, that God’s people had discernment, spiritual discernment! 

The one cry in our spirit is that His people might be more discerning...to be able to discern in their spirit where Life is and where death is. 

We have got to get on to the thing that God is doing, for only in this can we have the witness of Life that it is the thing of God, and that we shall get through. 

In order that He might be able to consummate His purpose, gather up His plan and bring it to a mighty, victorious issue in the coming of the Lord, our need is to have Life more abundant… and the spiritual discernment by Life, to know where Life is and where death is.

You may be doing what you call the work of God and have death in your Spirit; and that very doing of what you call the work of God because there is death in your spirit is antagonistic to the purpose of God. 

You may have Life in your Spirit and death all around, but the fact that you have the witness of Life is both the key and the assurance that something is to be accomplished.
 
I believe, beloved, that we dare not do a thing unless we have definite witness in our spirit that it is the thing of God to be done through us…. 

Is God in this?

Is God in that?

Has God undertaken it?

The answer to that question in your spirit will not be an audible voice...

It must ever be the liberty and the freedom and the uprising of His Life in you that gives you a clear way through in your spirit.

~T. Austin Sparks~