Bring The Rain - Wednesday Worship

It’s Wednesday today and time to worship the Lord!

Worship is to reverently honor and give homage to God.

It is an adoring reverence that dedicate to God.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

And we should be careful what we do with the best we have.

Whenever we get a blessing from God, we should give it back to Him as a love-gift.

Take time to meditate and pray before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

King Jehoshaphat had the right attitude when a "vast army" was coming against him and his people in Second Chronicles 20.

He knew the odds were stacked against him, and there was no apparent way out of his trouble.

He turned to the Lord and told Him, "We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You." (2 Chronicles 20:12).

We don’t need to know HOW the Lord would deliver us-only that He will.

Along with this realization will come the peace, joy, and reassurance.

This is post is part of Wednesday Worship series.

I Need You - Wednesday Worship

It’s Wednesday today and time to worship the Lord!

Worship is to reverently honor and give homage to God.

It is an adoring reverence that dedicate to God.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

And we should be careful what we do with the best we have.

Whenever we get a blessing from God, we should give it back to Him as a love-gift.

Take time to meditate and pray before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

The Bible says in Acts 13:22 that David was a man after God's own heart.

One reason for this was his willingness to praise God even in the darkest of times.

Scripture reveals in 2 Samuel 12:20 that after David's first child with Bathsheba died, he went straight to the temple to worship the Lord.

David knew that no matter what was going on in his life, God was still worthy of His devotion and praise.

In Psalm 34:1, David writes: "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth."

And even though David was a mighty warrior who often relied on weapons of war for his defense, he also knew that praise was an important weapon in his arsenal.

In Psalm 18:3, he writes: "I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies."

This is post is part of Wednesday Worship series.

The Full Assurance Of Faith

“This is the glorious privilege of every Christian, yea, though he be but a babe in Christ. But it is only of grown Christian it can be affirmed, they are in such a sense perfect, as, Secondly, to be free from evil thoughts and evil tempers. First, from evil or sinful thoughts.

Indeed, whence ,should they spring? ‘Out of the heart of man’, if at all, ‘proceed evil thoughts’. If. therefore, the heart be no longer evil, then evil thoughts no longer proceed out of it: For ‘a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit’.”

John Wesley

As the Christians are freed from evil thoughts, so likewise they are freed from the evil tempers.

Every one of us can say with St. Paul:

“I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”

He who lives in the Christians has purified their hearts by faith.

“The full assurance of faith…” according to Arvid Gradin is to “Repose in the blood of Christ; a firm confidence in God, and persuasion of his favour; the highest tranquility, serenity, and peace of mind, with a deliverance from every fleshly desire, and a cessation of all, even inward sins.”

Every one that has Christ in him is purified from pride, for Christ was lowly in heart.

He is pure from desire and self-will, for Christ desired only to do the will of his Father.

And he is pure from anger for Christ was meek and gently.

He feels a displacency at every offence against God, but only tender compassion to the offender.

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because, as he is, so are we in this world.”

St. John

The Christians are saved in this world from all sin, from all unrighteousness.

We are now in such a sense perfect, as not to commit sin, and to be freed from evil thoughts and evil tempers.

This post is part of the Thursday Devotionals series. And it is the first part of The Full Assurance Of Faith - a reflection on the writings of John Wesley. 

You can read the first part of the post - here.

Overcome - Wednesday Worship

It’s Wednesday today and time to worship the Lord!

Worship is to reverently honor and give homage to God.

It is an adoring reverence that dedicate to God.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

And we should be careful what we do with the best we have.

Whenever we get a blessing from God, we should give it back to Him as a love-gift.

Take time to meditate and pray before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

How would you describe God?

Many misguided believers see Him as a grandfatherly figure, up in heaven, who is waiting to meet our needs.

We often forget the majesty of God. He is holy, righteous, and worthy of our praise. 

This is post is part of Wednesday Worship series.

In The Middle Of Eternity - Thoughful Tuesdays

It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

Here I sit in the middle of eternity.  This wheelchair has helped me sit still.  I’ve observed with curiosity the way we Christians grasp for the future, as if the present didn’t quite satisfy.  How we, in spiritual fits and starts, scrape and scratch our way along, often missing the best of life while looking the other way, preoccupied with shaping our future.  In my least consistent moments I too try to wrest the future out of his hands.  Or worse, I sink back into the past and rest on long-ago laurels  But God is most concerned with the choices I make now.  God, standing silently and invisibly and presently with us in the middle of eternity, is interested in a certain kind of change.  He brings us choices through which we never-endingly change, fresh and new into his likeness.

Joni Eareckson Tada

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

1 Chronicles 16:26
The King James Version

This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.