Date: 11/07/08
Title: In Whom Have Confidence?
Scripture: Ps 146:3 Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. 4 When their breathing stops, they return to the earth, and in a moment all their plans come to an end. 5 But happy are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,...
Ps 147:10 The strength of a horse does not impress him; how puny in his sight is the strength of a man. 11 Rather, the LORD's delight is in those who honor him, those who put their hope in his unfailing love.
Observation: For some reason we so easily default to putting our trust, hope, confidence in man/people rather than in God. We don't say that we do, but our actions say otherwise. It seems that our faith extends only to a level of worship and belief. We're often happy to leave it there and put our confidence in man for most of our needs.
When we're sick it is simpler and easier to trust doctors and medicines. When we need finance or possessions we trust in sweat and toil.
I read also in the NT scripture today:
Mt 21:21 Then Jesus told them, "I assure you, if you have faith and don't doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say to this mountain, `May God lift you up and throw you into the sea,' and it will happen. 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
Faith at times seems so foreign to us. Yet God has called us to live by it and to put ALL of our confidence in Him.
Application: God will require that His people live by faith. I must live by faith. Not just when it is convenient, but every day. In the small things and in the large. I must teach people to do likewise before God removes the things we love to trust in.
Prayer: Lord, help me change defaults and walk in such a manner as to default to faith, confidence and soaring in the Spirit ... every day. Amen
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Today's Journal
Date: 02/07/08
Title: "Prayer for a God Invasion"
Scripture: Isa 64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
Observation:
Hear the cry of the prophet's heart here. I hear a groaning cry. A cry that is tired of religion and form. Here is a prayer that invokes an invasion of God upon the earth.
Whoever heard of mountains trembling? Perhaps during a volcanic eruption - but mountains usually represent grandeur, strength, even pride and arrogance. The scripture speaks of mountains being made low before the coming of the Lord.
Only God can make the mountains tremble! That is why the cry of this prayer is not for anything except the mighty power of God's own presence.
Application: This is the cry that I feel welling within me. In fact I feel and believe that this is the kind of prayer that God is causing to well up within His church worldwide.
We must give ourselves to this prayer. A prayer that firstly groans then cries out... Oh that heaven would invade us!
This prayer came from looking upon the desolation of the temple...
Isa 64:10 Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Surely this depicts the state of the church in our day.
Prayer: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
Title: "Prayer for a God Invasion"
Scripture: Isa 64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
Observation:
Hear the cry of the prophet's heart here. I hear a groaning cry. A cry that is tired of religion and form. Here is a prayer that invokes an invasion of God upon the earth.
Whoever heard of mountains trembling? Perhaps during a volcanic eruption - but mountains usually represent grandeur, strength, even pride and arrogance. The scripture speaks of mountains being made low before the coming of the Lord.
Only God can make the mountains tremble! That is why the cry of this prayer is not for anything except the mighty power of God's own presence.
Application: This is the cry that I feel welling within me. In fact I feel and believe that this is the kind of prayer that God is causing to well up within His church worldwide.
We must give ourselves to this prayer. A prayer that firstly groans then cries out... Oh that heaven would invade us!
This prayer came from looking upon the desolation of the temple...
Isa 64:10 Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
Surely this depicts the state of the church in our day.
Prayer: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
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