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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Stand Tall and Shout Your Praise!


"By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus.
And that's not all!
We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us.
We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.
There's more to come!
We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next.
In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged.
Quite the contrary—we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!"
[Romans 5:1-5, The Message]

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Our God Is GOOD

He is Elohim, Creator, the omnipotent who rules.
He is the sovereign King of Glory and earth is His footstool.
He is Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End.
He sends forth lightening that later checks back in with Him.
He speaks worlds into existence and spins them out in space.
He give orders to the morning and shows the dawn its place.
He prophesies the future, then orders it fulfilled.
He bears fruit from a landscape that man has never tilled.
He feeds the beasts of the field from the palm of His hand.
He watches while they bear their young, then teaches them to stand.
He gives the seas their boundaries and hides His creatures deep.
He teaches eagles how to fly and nest upon the steep.
He makes the clouds His chariot and rides on wings of wind.
He champions the victim and brings pound men to end.
He is Immanuel, God with us, come to earth through Christ.
He is the Kinsman Redeemer, who paid the slave man's price.
He is the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and worthy is the Lamb.
He holds the keys of Life Eternal, where the dead and Christ now stand.
He's enthroned between the cherubim, and great is His reward.
The devil His defeated foe, the weapon His swift sword.
The story has a moral so I'll hasten lest you tire,
Whoever you perceive He is, you might aim a little higher.

[Beth Moore, Believing God]

Monday, March 12, 2007

The Names of God

I recently did a Google search for the names of God. I got hundreds of thousands of results. One article came back with a list of over 600 names for God. I thought I'd share some of them with you each week until we get through them all. I figure that if I list 25 names a week, it will take us about 24-25 weeks to get through all the names of God listed in this article. So let's begin at the beginning with the A's...

1. A Branch (Jesus)
2. A chief cornerstone (Jesus)
3. A consuming fire
4. A covert from the tempest
5. A father to Israel
6. A God that hidest thyself
7. A Governor
8. A great high priest (Jesus)
9. A holy God
10. A jealous God
11. A just God and a Savior
12. A hiding place from the wind
13. A high priest of good things to come (Jesus)
14. A high priest over the house of God (Jesus)
15. A judge of the widows
16. A light to lighten the Gentiles (Jesus)
17. A living stone (Jesus)
18. A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief (Jesus)
19. A man of war
20. A merciful and faithful high priest (Jesus)
21. A merciful God
22. A mighty terrible one (In KJV, "terrible" means "awesome")
23. A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle (Jesus)
24. A nail in a sure place
25. A place of broad rivers and streams

I'm sorry that I don't have the Scriptural reference for each name. That would be nice. If there is one that seems odd to you, I encourage you to study the Word to see what It has to say on the matter. God will show you what He means. It is in the Word that we truly get to know the Father.

God Bless!

Sunday, March 04, 2007

A Pilgrim Song

I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from GOD, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.
He won't let you stumble; your Guardian God won't fall asleep.
Not on your life!
Israel's Guardian will never doze or sleep.
GOD's your Guardian, right at your side to protect you--
Shielding you from sunstroke, sheltering you from moon stroke.
GOD guards you from every evil; he guards your very life.
He guards you when you leave and when you return,
he guards you now,
he guards you always.
Psalm 121 (The Message)