Prayer & Worship Journal
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
MAL 3:3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
MT 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
The Good Shepherd will gather His sheep. We can call that revival, but the world does not love us for that but hates and persecutes. Those who will stand up firmly will get saved: MT 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
God is for You but will not force his hand on You. Yes God already knows the end of all things but somewhere in his vast wisdom he has seen fit to offer us freedom of choice in his great love. So now we stand at our daily crossroads God's way or Satan's way. With the knowledge of good and evil that we chose to possess, and all now have, comes the responsibility of choice, Good or evil. This responsibility we can never live up to. We are corrupted and so always allow evil to break forth. And so Jesus came and suffered, almighty God suffered and died. He made the decisions for us took on evil at its root and strongest point and evil was defeated. Jesus has done the work for You. Accept Jesus Christ and you will not need to overcome evil, sin and death yourself. Your wrongs he has paid for. All the quiet evil in your heart he knows about and has paid for himself. Jesus will love you and live within you by his Spirit. Jesus will cause your spirit to be reborn, you will be a new person. And yes we all are still influenced by evil thoughts and desires, and yes we all still do wrong things but now there is another way to live and not just live but to be free from the grip of evil. Free from the compulsion to do wrong when we know there is a better way, free from the compulsion to settle for a mediocre, average, comfortable western life when God has planned for us a righteousness life of freedom with him.
God is intimately involved with You
He knows YOU not just in a general way but in a personal and intimate manner.
You see: He had YOU on His mind before the foundation of the world.
Knowing this it must necessarily follow that God was intimately involved in all of the details regarding YOUR life:
He chose the time of YOUR birth.
He chose the place of YOUR birth.
He chose YOUR family.
He chose YOUR gender.
He chose YOUR personality.
He chose YOUR abilities.
He chose the things YOU are to accomplish for Him.
Let me prove it to you from God's Word.
“For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight”.
Ephesians 1:4
“For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”.
Ephesians 2:10
David describes God's intimate involvement in YOUR creation: “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth.”. Psalm 139:14-15
Extract from website: http://www.ministryto-silencedwomen.com/index.html

