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Far be it from me that I knowingly not fulfil promises.
Case in point is a post of 21 verses
I realise it's quite a lot of verses to go through
I will do my best in highlighting what I believe to be the juicier flesh of the whole body
Firstly, it’s addressing those who abide in Christ.
I should not look down on those who once were of the house I now call mine. They have what one may call the legal right to come into that house once again- their parent still identifies with them. They share the same DNA. Yes they may have been cut off but it will be much easier for them to trace back their roots and come into that house again. You only stay there due to your faith. How more able are you to keep up with the demands of the house owner than the ones who grew up in that house.
Yes stay there with fear for you are but a grafted-in branch. If you were to err would the house owner be willing to overlook the fact that you were not born in that house?
Look at what happened to those who misbehaved who were born in that house. Stand firm on your faith and not look down on those who’ve fallen off- they are not fallen forever- they are waiting for the appointed time for them to be grafted back in.
The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Never say because one has not been saved they cannot tell you what is right from wrong. Gifts from God are not on merit- His grace.
Yes we can only wonder at His ways.
His mind truly is unsearchable. The one thing we can all agree on without dispute is that He loves us. Still He loves us in spite of what we are today or where we were yesterday.
He loves us still. Amen.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Friday 23 January 2009
The Pursuit of God
I only got to know of A.W. Tozer when I came across his book 'The Pursuit of God" and read it.
I have some quotes of his that I'm sharing.
Ultimately Abraham discovered that only God matters….
Abraham was completely satisfied with God’s friendship. He becomes to us a faithful example in his willingness to put God first. With Abraham, only God mattered…
In Abraham’s encounter with God he learned why he was here upon earth. He was to Glorify God in all things and to continually worship… (Men who met God, 29, 30).
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. " God’s already put me so far in de4bt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me. (Worship: The Missing Jewel, 24).
In my opinion, the great single need of the moment is that light-hearted superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up, with His train filling the temple. The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are left to our own devices and forced to make up the lack of spontaneous worship by bringing in countless cheap and tawdry activities to hold the attention of the church people. (Keys To The Deeper Life, 87 & 88).
But a man who has passed the veil and looked even briefly upon the holy face of Isaiah’s God can never be irreverent again. There will be a reverence in his spirit and instead of boasting, he will cover his feet modestly. (The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1 Book 1 57,58).
Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but 1 do come. Please root from my heart all those things which 1 have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter avid dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus' Name, Amen. In Pursuit of God
And I pray that this weekend's praise, worship and service brings to a point where you'll agree with him when he said,
"There is a point in true worship where the mind may cease to understand and goes over to a kind of delightful astonishment---probably to what Carlyle described as "transcendent wonder," a degree of wonder without limit and beyond expression!…."
I have some quotes of his that I'm sharing.
Ultimately Abraham discovered that only God matters….
Abraham was completely satisfied with God’s friendship. He becomes to us a faithful example in his willingness to put God first. With Abraham, only God mattered…
In Abraham’s encounter with God he learned why he was here upon earth. He was to Glorify God in all things and to continually worship… (Men who met God, 29, 30).
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. " God’s already put me so far in de4bt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me. (Worship: The Missing Jewel, 24).
In my opinion, the great single need of the moment is that light-hearted superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up, with His train filling the temple. The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are left to our own devices and forced to make up the lack of spontaneous worship by bringing in countless cheap and tawdry activities to hold the attention of the church people. (Keys To The Deeper Life, 87 & 88).
But a man who has passed the veil and looked even briefly upon the holy face of Isaiah’s God can never be irreverent again. There will be a reverence in his spirit and instead of boasting, he will cover his feet modestly. (The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1 Book 1 57,58).
Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide from Thee the terror of the parting. I come trembling, but 1 do come. Please root from my heart all those things which 1 have cherished so long and which have become a very part of my living self, so that Thou mayest enter avid dwell there without a rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it, and there shall be no night there. In Jesus' Name, Amen. In Pursuit of God
And I pray that this weekend's praise, worship and service brings to a point where you'll agree with him when he said,
"There is a point in true worship where the mind may cease to understand and goes over to a kind of delightful astonishment---probably to what Carlyle described as "transcendent wonder," a degree of wonder without limit and beyond expression!…."
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Love
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ROMANS 13:8-10
Isn’t it beautiful how simple things become when we love one another?
How you’re going to love thy neighbour is as thyself
This automatically means we do love ourselves to begin with
So who is thy neighbour?
We all are
So why are so you still indebted to many?
Isn’t it beautiful how simple things become when we love one another?
How you’re going to love thy neighbour is as thyself
This automatically means we do love ourselves to begin with
So who is thy neighbour?
We all are
So why are so you still indebted to many?
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