What is it that makes people want safety and protection more than freedom and liberty? Today people want the government to take care of them, to provide all that they could possibly need, yet if they looked at history this was never a good thing! Have you ever heard of the old story of "owing the company store"? That's where people lived and worked in an area that the company they worked for also owned the local grocery store. The people would work all week so they could go to the store on their payday and give all of their money to the store to buy the food they needed to live for the next week, so they could work all week and then repeat the cycle.
These days people have been enticed to receive food stamps, health care, housing, cell phones and anything else they aren't able to provide for themselves, all from the government. (I do want to say here that there are some people that aren't able to provide for themselves, but many people that receive these benefits could do something to help themselves if they really needed to, if the welfare check wasn't going to arrive they might find a way to support themselves.)
The point of this article is that the more handouts we take from the government, the more we developing a slave mentality. We are becoming a society of economic slaves. We work to pay the "government store". (What happened to the idea that those who don't work, don't eat? 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 )
I am currently studying in scripture where Moses was enduring the complaining of the multitude of Hebrews that were being led away from slavery. Were they thanking him? NO! they were complaining about how good they had it in the slavery that he had come to lead them from! Yet, Moses was sent by God to lead the Hebrews from their captivity in Egypt because of the outcry they had caused. They were complaining about being slaves and their treatment by the Egyptian government and then they complained about their freedom and there treatment by life! The lesson I'm learning here is that people will always complain!
Now, I'm wondering what point God is making in all of this? It sounds hopeless, doesn't it? If you follow the Hebrew's experience further, the lessons they were being shown was that God is always there and ready to take care of them (and us). Just ask Him, quit complaining and grumbling, quit looking to man for our needs to be met.
Once we really learn this lesson we will rejoice and praise God! We will learn to live in peace with each other! Our only problem will be that there is an enemy running around Earth, trying to steal, kill and destroy us, but if we have truly learned the lesson of depending on God for our safety, protection and provision then the enemy will not be able to tear us away from that. Beloved, learn to draw close to our Heavenly Father, He is all we need. We don't need for the government to treat us like little children that need to be told what to do and what not to do, we need God...we need to draw close to Him and walk under His care daily.
If we turn and take one step towards Him, He runs to us! He cleans us up, He repairs us and prepares us! Choose Him as your Protector and Provider.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Friday, December 26, 2014
God Is Not Static
People want to imagine God as a static being. There are some attributes of God that don't change, but there are different season's in how God deals with us, so there has to be different season's that even God goes through. Times of desiring intimacy and times of desiring respect. We can't put Him in a box and say this is God~ because He is so big! so amazing! so complex~
Friday, January 4, 2013
Looking Forward by Looking Back
It is amazing how fast time really is. Yes, I know it is about this time last year that it was this date. So, in that regard, time has not sped up nor slowed down. What I mean is, in looking back it is hard to believe a calendar year has come and gone.
I think back to just a year ago I was finishing up the Christmas break and about to head back to a school of ministry in Kansas City, MO. Here I sit in central Wisconsin at our son's place - school no where on my mind nor even on the radar. In this past year we have traveled to different parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin and a small bit into Illinois.
I am quite sure I have left out many events, situations, circumstances, encounters, spoken words and so forth as I look back over 2012 - the goal here was not to list them all, it is to highlight that You, God are on the move in a mighty way! This is just a snapshot of You working in our lives - now take that and multiply that out to all of the followers of You, Jesus! Your word declares You are not a respecter of persons - if You do this with one, then it can and will be done for through all of Your children, thank You Lord!
I am looking forward to what you have in store for us and Your body for 2013. I don't even pretend to know - looking back, how would I have ever put it together that You would do all of that through a lost and found datebook - even taking that out of the picture, what we have had happen and what we experienced, who could do that but you Lord - no one, that is who!
I love You and I welcome You into my life, my family, my job, my finances, my housing, my transportation - everything and every area, come and have Your way, God! Come and have Your way, Jesus! Come and have Your way, Holy Spirit!
- Posted by Lane Mercer
I think back to just a year ago I was finishing up the Christmas break and about to head back to a school of ministry in Kansas City, MO. Here I sit in central Wisconsin at our son's place - school no where on my mind nor even on the radar. In this past year we have traveled to different parts of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin and a small bit into Illinois.
- We have lost a vehicle - gained one (lost as in not working and needing a new motor, so not likely to work!)
- We have had two offers to buy our house in Oklahoma - two offers withdrawn (one by us and one by them)
- We have been prayed for by different ones and have prayed for different ones
- We have been blessed financially and have been a blessing financially
- We have become more comfortable and excited with the leading of the Lord in our lives
- We have been to two professional sports games (one together and one each individually)
- We have gone to our first symphony, loved it and want to go again
- We have gone from having one job to having two jobs and then back to one
- We have seen prophetic words spoken over us and to us starting to take shape and happening
- One of them being a voice to the nations - being on radio that broadcast (at last count) to 24 nations and over 30 states in the USA
- Another one is becoming the hand that wields the sword - having a knowing when to leave the second job - which opened the door for the radio (one among many other examples)
- The Canadian man having a place to stay in Kansas City for a week, with us, resulting in us having a second vehicle for a few months while he was away to Africa on a mission trip
- The Canadian man becoming connected with a church in Kansas City where the pastor operates strongly in a deliverance and restorative ministry and thus this Canadian gaining more freedom and restoration
- The Canadian man, during a spiritual leadership forum (The Master's Word Shop) upon his return from Africa shares his experiences of what God was and is doing in Africa. During this time, a member of the audience was directed by the Lord to speak to the pastor from Kansas City that the Canadian had met and share that they want to personally finance bringing over a pastor from Africa that the Candian's testimony mentioned
I am quite sure I have left out many events, situations, circumstances, encounters, spoken words and so forth as I look back over 2012 - the goal here was not to list them all, it is to highlight that You, God are on the move in a mighty way! This is just a snapshot of You working in our lives - now take that and multiply that out to all of the followers of You, Jesus! Your word declares You are not a respecter of persons - if You do this with one, then it can and will be done for through all of Your children, thank You Lord!
I am looking forward to what you have in store for us and Your body for 2013. I don't even pretend to know - looking back, how would I have ever put it together that You would do all of that through a lost and found datebook - even taking that out of the picture, what we have had happen and what we experienced, who could do that but you Lord - no one, that is who!
I love You and I welcome You into my life, my family, my job, my finances, my housing, my transportation - everything and every area, come and have Your way, God! Come and have Your way, Jesus! Come and have Your way, Holy Spirit!
- Posted by Lane Mercer
Monday, September 24, 2012
Rules of the Game, L. K. Mercer
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Is God Passive?
(This is not written as a debate, but simply as a thought provoking commentary of my own thinking and learning progression as I grow in God.)
If we have not bothered to understand God should we be allowed to weigh Him according to our standards? Should we try to understand Him like he is a man, just bigger, stronger, wiser, older? If we try to enter a relationship like that with Him then are we not just like a youth that thinks they have learned all the world has to teach and therefore they should be able to help their parents see where they have erred in their life decisions?
Would it not perhaps be better for us, the teenage children, to ask to be shown and try to learn the history in actions before we try to advise and teach? Kind of like learning the rules of the game before we try to play it?
In a recent conversation I was involved in, I was faced with the idea that God is passive, that He created all of the world with it's problems and issues and then just dropped mankind off to suffer here and for what? The questions went on that if He's God and all powerful then why doesn't He remove the evil from the world and take away all of the wrongs? I admit that those are questions that I have gone through in the past also and I'm sure most thinking people do. It is difficult to see the weak and innocent persecuted and not cry out to God, Why?!
My question today though is "Maybe we're involved in a struggle and we don't understand our part or role in it?" Maybe the persecution and suffering is because we're not living up to our part in life? Is it possible that it is mankind's own fault because we have not learned "the rules of the game"?
When we start reading God's word and trying to learn and grow in it(or learning the rules), then we do learn the history of man on earth. However we don't learn God's history because God is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega. Kind of hard to go all the way to where God began when it's not recorded and He is "the beginning"! Another challenging concept is that He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Doesn't that kind of boggle your mind? Can we mere mortal humans conceive such a Being, much less understand His decision or thinking process? I find that I am challenged to understand anyone that is either 20 points higher or lower than my own IQ, much less understanding God who knows everything from the beginning to the end?!
What I'm suggesting now is that even though we have little hope of understanding "all" of what God is about, we can read scripture, study His words and the things that He's tried to teach us and attempt to grow in what we are able to understand, our role in life. What has He asked of us and do we live and walk by it?
We know that in the beginning He gave one simple rule, don't eat from the tree in the garden. Did man obey that one simple rule? Wouldn't life be so easy if we were faced with only one rule?! But mankind wasn't able to even follow that one teeny tiny little rule. Mankind as a collective ate of the tree and let's be fair, if we were faced with the same thing today most likely we'd have to taste the fruit of the tree just to see what it was all about. "We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." So, let's move past blaming Adam and Eve and just face where we are at that point, sinful creatures.
Being sinful creatures God could no longer fellowship with us, He is holy and has no part with sin(us). But because God is love He created a way for us to return to a relationship with Him! Yes, He knew man would eat the fruit, just like any parent knows their kids are going to lie to them at some point in their childhood and they have to be taught not to lie. So God knew we would sin, remember God knows we are "but dust". He planned a way around that and gave us a way back to walk with Him daily, just as Adam did in the garden. There is one little hitch in the fact that we walk in the world with Him not in the garden.
In walking in the world we do see the results of fallen man(the suffering and persecution). But where I believe the problem lies is in the fact that we don't "walk with Him" in the world, we walk our own ways and question things in our own understanding. God has given us the ability to have Him live in us, but we don't grasp that understanding much less the power that it would give us in this world.
Even after sending us countless teachers to lead and words from prophets to show us the way, we "like sheep" still went our own way! We go our own way and wonder why the world is such a mess? Do we try to learn the things in scripture and follow them? How much time do we spend in prayer or conversation with God our Father, trying to learn His heart?
So we have His word in written form that we can and should read for ourselves, we should study it even as if our lives should be lead by it! If we earnestly seek Him, we will find Him. If we seek Him insincerely, it's still even possible to find Him! There have been countless intellectual men(C.S. Lewis, Derek Prince to name a couple) that have started out to disprove God, to show that He doesn't exist, but even as they attempted to prove their point they encountered God and were proven the error of their thinking and became great teachers for God! So, if we seek Him in earnest, He will disclose Himself to us.
OK, back to our plan, 1) Study His word, 2) Seek Him, 3) Speak to Him in prayer. About prayer, it doesn't have to be a formal ordeal, after all, God knows your heart, it's not like a person that you've just met that you can fool with acting a certain way until they leave the room. He's always in the room! Might as well be real with Him and speak as you would to your best friend! Like "God, I don't understand why You let this happen?!". You may not receive the "understanding" that you are seeking, but if you continue the conversation with Him you most likely will receive the peace that you "need".
Some people receive answers and understanding quickly from God, like Paul of Tarsus" and some people need to invest perseverance, like Job, don't ask me why, God hasn't revealed that to me! But I do understand, know and trust that He will take care of things when I don't try to take over control from Him. I also know that if I try to take control of things from Him that He will give me the control and allow me to totally mess everything up! My point is that if you ask God questions and you don't receive an immediate answer, don't give up asking. Don't throw in the towel at the first frustration. Anything that anyone learns in life is usually learned through a process of time and practice. I took years of piano lessons and still didn't become a concert pianist, but I can carry some tunes that are somewhat pleasing, and if I practiced more I would become better and better at it, even as walking with God becomes better and better with practice and effort.
OK, so....1) Study, 2) Seek, 3) Pray, 4) Persevere. When we do these, we will begin to walk in our "regenerated reality". Our regenerated reality is who we are in God, and Who He is in us.
(I am not going into all that God did through Jesus to get us to be "born again" there is tons of information written about it and I will probably write something at a later time, but for now let's just assume you already know about Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection and you're part of being born again into salvation!) As a new christian I first learned that God loved me and that I would be saved from going to Hell if I accepted Him as my saviour. Simple concept right? I mean to many it's a win-win concept and nothing to lose! We are loved and saved and nothing required from us, who wouldn't agree to that? However there is a little more that we should be aware of. When we enter this relationship with God we do have responsibilities.
Just as a new citizen to the United States needs to learn the laws and language of their new country, we need to invest time and effort in coming to understand what our new role is in this life we have stepped into with God. What is our part of this deal? Luckily there is much, MUCH, written about that in the New Testament, and to really understand who we are we should read the Old Testament also. The really good part is that God even sends us a Teacher, Helper and Counselor to aid in our learning! The Holy Spirit comes to give understanding to our new life, our new "reality". I believe that God gives enough understanding through His word and His Holy Spirit to the true seeker to find the life He intends for us to live. He gave us His power to teach, heal, to bring life. He gave us Himself to live within us, His Holy Spirit! He gave us the ability to sit at His right hand in the heavens through His Son Jesus! He gave us His "power of attorney" so to speak.
When Jesus left Earth, He gave His disciples, that's you and me, His power that was won on the cross through His death and then His victory over death! So, here we are with all of this power, what are we doing with it? Are we even aware of the power we have? Remember in Star Wars when Luke had to train to use the "force"? Well, the power we have received far outweighs the "force", but if we don't learn that we even have it it's pretty much the same as not having it, it's a buried asset! "Our battle is not against flesh and blood" and our enemy the devil would have our power remain buried forever! However I am here encouraging you to learn about the power that Jesus gave us!
Learn about who you are in your "Redeemed" status. God has said that whatever we loose in Heaven is loosed on Earth, and whatever we bind in Heaven is bound on Earth, do you use that power? We have been given Armor to wear in our battle, do you dress in it daily? Do you enter the battle daily? If we submit to God and resist the devil, he will flee from us, do we follow that, do we make the devil flee or do we let him bully us throughout the day? Jesus told us that we can even move mountains by word and faith, do we believe and live in that?
I believe that when we learn who we are in God and live it, we will no longer view God as passive or unjust, we will be the presence of God that people long for. We will be portals of glory, we will carry the power and truth that Jesus died for and left for us to use to touch the world! People will no longer think that God is passive, they will see His love and actions through our lives. Yes it may seem overwhelming, but it's not, we have already been guaranteed the victory, but if we never step out and claim it, then God will still appear passive or unresponsive to those around us because we're not living up to the responsibility that we've been given in our "Redeemed Reality". If we are "Redeemed" let us live like it, let God shine through our lights, let Him be seen through our actions, let Him be heard through our words. We are God's body on Earth, if we don't fight the good fight then it is our own actions that are passive, not God's.
OK, so....1) Study, 2) Seek, 3) Pray, 4) Persevere! Claim the victory in the battle, it has already been given into our hands!
L. K. Mercer
Is God Passive?
(This is not written as a debate, but simply as a thought provoking commentary of my own thinking and learning progression as I grow in God.)
If we have not bothered to understand God should we be allowed to weigh Him according to our standards? Should we try to understand Him like he is a man, just bigger, stronger, wiser, older? If we try to enter a relationship like that with Him then are we not just like a youth that thinks they have learned all the world has to teach and therefore they should be able to help their parents see where they have erred in their life decisions?
Would it not perhaps be better for us, the teenage children, to ask to be shown and try to learn the history in actions before we try to advise and teach? Kind of like learning the rules of the game before we try to play it?
In a recent conversation I was involved in, I was faced with the idea that God is passive, that He created all of the world with it's problems and issues and then just dropped mankind off to suffer here and for what? The questions went on that if He's God and all powerful then why doesn't He remove the evil from the world and take away all of the wrongs? I admit that those are questions that I have gone through in the past also and I'm sure most thinking people do. It is difficult to see the weak and innocent persecuted and not cry out to God, Why?!
My question today though is "Maybe we're involved in a struggle and we don't understand our part or role in it?" Maybe the persecution and suffering is because we're not living up to our part in life? Is it possible that it is mankind's own fault because we have not learned "the rules of the game"?
When we start reading God's word and trying to learn and grow in it(or learning the rules), then we do learn the history of man on earth. However we don't learn God's history because God is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega. Kind of hard to go all the way to where God began when it's not recorded and He is "the beginning"! Another challenging concept is that He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Doesn't that kind of boggle your mind? Can we mere mortal humans conceive such a Being, much less understand His decision or thinking process? I find that I am challenged to understand anyone that is either 20 points higher or lower than my own IQ, much less understanding God who knows everything from the beginning to the end?!
What I'm suggesting now is that even though we have little hope of understanding "all" of what God is about, we can read scripture, study His words and the things that He's tried to teach us and attempt to grow in what we are able to understand, our role in life. What has He asked of us and do we live and walk by it?
We know that in the beginning He gave one simple rule, don't eat from the tree in the garden. Did man obey that one simple rule? Wouldn't life be so easy if we were faced with only one rule?! But mankind wasn't able to even follow that one teeny tiny little rule. Mankind as a collective ate of the tree and let's be fair, if we were faced with the same thing today most likely we'd have to taste the fruit of the tree just to see what it was all about. "We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." So, let's move past blaming Adam and Eve and just face where we are at that point, sinful creatures.
Being sinful creatures God could no longer fellowship with us, He is holy and has no part with sin(us). But because God is love He created a way for us to return to a relationship with Him! Yes, He knew man would eat the fruit, just like any parent knows their kids are going to lie to them at some point in their childhood and they have to be taught not to lie. So God knew we would sin, remember God knows we are "but dust". He planned a way around that and gave us a way back to walk with Him daily, just as Adam did in the garden. There is one little hitch in the fact that we walk in the world with Him not in the garden.
In walking in the world we do see the results of fallen man(the suffering and persecution). But where I believe the problem lies is in the fact that we don't "walk with Him" in the world, we walk our own ways and question things in our own understanding. God has given us the ability to have Him live in us, but we don't grasp that understanding much less the power that it would give us in this world.
Even after sending us countless teachers to lead and words from prophets to show us the way, we "like sheep" still went our own way! We go our own way and wonder why the world is such a mess? Do we try to learn the things in scripture and follow them? How much time do we spend in prayer or conversation with God our Father, trying to learn His heart?
So we have His word in written form that we can and should read for ourselves, we should study it even as if our lives should be lead by it! If we earnestly seek Him, we will find Him. If we seek Him insincerely, it's still even possible to find Him! There have been countless intellectual men(C.S. Lewis, Derek Prince to name a couple) that have started out to disprove God, to show that He doesn't exist, but even as they attempted to prove their point they encountered God and were proven the error of their thinking and became great teachers for God! So, if we seek Him in earnest, He will disclose Himself to us.
OK, back to our plan, 1) Study His word, 2) Seek Him, 3) Speak to Him in prayer. About prayer, it doesn't have to be a formal ordeal, after all, God knows your heart, it's not like a person that you've just met that you can fool with acting a certain way until they leave the room. He's always in the room! Might as well be real with Him and speak as you would to your best friend! Like "God, I don't understand why You let this happen?!". You may not receive the "understanding" that you are seeking, but if you continue the conversation with Him you most likely will receive the peace that you "need".
Some people receive answers and understanding quickly from God, like Paul of Tarsus" and some people need to invest perseverance, like Job, don't ask me why, God hasn't revealed that to me! But I do understand, know and trust that He will take care of things when I don't try to take over control from Him. I also know that if I try to take control of things from Him that He will give me the control and allow me to totally mess everything up! My point is that if you ask God questions and you don't receive an immediate answer, don't give up asking. Don't throw in the towel at the first frustration. Anything that anyone learns in life is usually learned through a process of time and practice. I took years of piano lessons and still didn't become a concert pianist, but I can carry some tunes that are somewhat pleasing, and if I practiced more I would become better and better at it, even as walking with God becomes better and better with practice and effort.
OK, so....1) Study, 2) Seek, 3) Pray, 4) Persevere. When we do these, we will begin to walk in our "regenerated reality". Our regenerated reality is who we are in God, and Who He is in us.
(I am not going into all that God did through Jesus to get us to be "born again" there is tons of information written about it and I will probably write something at a later time, but for now let's just assume you already know about Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection and you're part of being born again into salvation!) As a new christian I first learned that God loved me and that I would be saved from going to Hell if I accepted Him as my saviour. Simple concept right? I mean to many it's a win-win concept and nothing to lose! We are loved and saved and nothing required from us, who wouldn't agree to that? However there is a little more that we should be aware of. When we enter this relationship with God we do have responsibilities.
Just as a new citizen to the United States needs to learn the laws and language of their new country, we need to invest time and effort in coming to understand what our new role is in this life we have stepped into with God. What is our part of this deal? Luckily there is much, MUCH, written about that in the New Testament, and to really understand who we are we should read the Old Testament also. The really good part is that God even sends us a Teacher, Helper and Counselor to aid in our learning! The Holy Spirit comes to give understanding to our new life, our new "reality". I believe that God gives enough understanding through His word and His Holy Spirit to the true seeker to find the life He intends for us to live. He gave us His power to teach, heal, to bring life. He gave us Himself to live within us, His Holy Spirit! He gave us the ability to sit at His right hand in the heavens through His Son Jesus! He gave us His "power of attorney" so to speak.
When Jesus left Earth, He gave His disciples, that's you and me, His power that was won on the cross through His death and then His victory over death! So, here we are with all of this power, what are we doing with it? Are we even aware of the power we have? Remember in Star Wars when Luke had to train to use the "force"? Well, the power we have received far outweighs the "force", but if we don't learn that we even have it it's pretty much the same as not having it, it's a buried asset! "Our battle is not against flesh and blood" and our enemy the devil would have our power remain buried forever! However I am here encouraging you to learn about the power that Jesus gave us!
Learn about who you are in your "Redeemed" status. God has said that whatever we loose in Heaven is loosed on Earth, and whatever we bind in Heaven is bound on Earth, do you use that power? We have been given Armor to wear in our battle, do you dress in it daily? Do you enter the battle daily? If we submit to God and resist the devil, he will flee from us, do we follow that, do we make the devil flee or do we let him bully us throughout the day? Jesus told us that we can even move mountains by word and faith, do we believe and live in that?
I believe that when we learn who we are in God and live it, we will no longer view God as passive or unjust, we will be the presence of God that people long for. We will be portals of glory, we will carry the power and truth that Jesus died for and left for us to use to touch the world! People will no longer think that God is passive, they will see His love and actions through our lives. Yes it may seem overwhelming, but it's not, we have already been guaranteed the victory, but if we never step out and claim it, then God will still appear passive or unresponsive to those around us because we're not living up to the responsibility that we've been given in our "Redeemed Reality". If we are "Redeemed" let us live like it, let God shine through our lights, let Him be seen through our actions, let Him be heard through our words. We are God's body on Earth, if we don't fight the good fight then it is our own actions that are passive, not God's.
OK, so....1) Study, 2) Seek, 3) Pray, 4) Persevere! Claim the victory in the battle, it has already been given into our hands!
L. K. Mercer
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The All - Sufficient One
Today's entry, posted by Lane, comes from a devotion book that I try to read an entry from each day. I don't always succeed at this, but I am really glad I did today! What I read was something that really stood out and I wanted to share it here with you.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Thank you Lord for all of these attributes and yet even so many more!
**This is from the book "Promises to keep: Daily devotions for men seeking integrity" by Nick Harrison. This book draws together the words of hundreds of prominent Christian authors and leaders.**
The All - Sufficient One
"'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God,
'who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.'" - Revelation 1:8
You are Holy Lord, the Only God,
and Your deeds are wonderful.
You are Strong.
You are Great.
You are the Most High,
You are Almighty.
You, Holy Father, are King of Heaven and Earth.
You are Three and One,
Lord God, all good.
You are Good, all Good, Supreme Good,
Lord God, living and true.
You are Love,
You are Wisdom.
You are Humility,
You are Endurance.
You are Rest,
You are Peace.
You are Joy and Gladness.
You are Justice and Moderation.
You are all our riches and You suffice for us.
You are Beauty.
You are Gentleness.
You are our Protector,
You are our Guardian and Defender.
You are Courage.
You are our Haven and our Hope.
You are our faith, our great consolation.
You are our Eternal Life,
Great and Wonderful Lord,
God Almighty,
Merciful Saviour.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Thank you Lord for all of these attributes and yet even so many more!
**This is from the book "Promises to keep: Daily devotions for men seeking integrity" by Nick Harrison. This book draws together the words of hundreds of prominent Christian authors and leaders.**
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Open Heaven
Lane and I listened to a short 10 minute sermon recently by Bill Johnson. The message I received from it has already started changing parts of my prayers, as I start praying I take time to recognize the open heaven over me and I thank God for it. Next I give my love and adoration to the Lord which flies straight to Him through the open heaven, no obstacles! Then I receive the glory that falls upon my shoulders and the grace He places in my heart. Just the simple fact of recognizing the open heaven over myself let's me recognize how close God is! It all sounds so simple and makes me wonder why I didn't have this understanding before, but my spirit has received it in a whole new way that gives me a wonder and a joy, what a great and loving God/Father we have! Here is a link if you would like to hear the message~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqJaA2TPS4&feature=share
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