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Published February 15, 2019

The Omnipotence of God

“I am God Almighty.” Genesis 17:1

When Abraham heard these words he fell on his face and God
spoke to him. God filled his heart with faith in what He would
do for him. O Christian, have you bowed in deep humility
before God until you felt that you were in living contact with
the Almighty?

Read in the Psalms how the saints of old gloried in God
and in His strength.

“The Lord protect me from danger” (Psalm 27:1)

“God remains the strength of my heart.” (Psalm 73:26).

Take time to appropriate these words and to adore God as
the Almighty One, your strength.

Christ taught us that salvation is the work of God and quite
impossible to humans. When the disciples asked: “Then who in
the world can be saved?” His answer was: “Humanly speaking,
it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with
God.” (Mark 10:26-27). If we firmly believe this, we will have
courage to believe that God is working in us all that is well-
pleasing in His sight.

Think how Paul prays for the Ephesians, that through the
enlightening of the Spirit, they might “begin to understand the
incredible greatness of His power for us who believe Him.”
(Ephesians 1:19). When we fully believe that the mighty power
of God is working within us, we can joyfully say, ‘God is the
strength of my life.”

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Not of This World

Published May 26, 2018

Not of This World

“And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not. They are not part of this world any more than I am.” John 17:14, 16

In His last night Jesus took pains to make clear to His disciples the impassible gulf between Him and the world and also between them and the world (John 16:16-21). He had said of the Spirit: “The world at large cannot receive Him, because it isn’t looking for Him and doesn’t recognize Him.” (John 14:17). “The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don’t. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.” (John 15:19)

One great mark of the disciples was to be as little a part of the world as Christ was. Christ and the disciples had become united in the cross and the Resurrection; they both belonged to another world, the kingdom of heaven.

Why is it that faith in the Holy Spirit is practiced so little by Christians? The world rules too much in the lives of Christians. The “world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in possessions”
(1 John 2:16) – all this robs the heart of its desire for that true self-denial necessary for receiving the Holy Spirit.

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The First Commandment

First commandment “The Lord your God will cleanse your heart…. so that you will love Him with all your heart and soul.” Dduetoronomy 30:6

Published October 30, 2017

The First Commandment

“The Lord your God will cleanse your heart…. so that you will love Him with all your heart and soul.” Deuteronomy 30:6

God greatly desires our love. It is the nature of all love to want to be acceptable and to be accepted. God longs to have the love of our whole heart.

How can we love God with all our heart and soul? In the same way that we receive salvation – through faith alone. Paul says, “I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). When we take time to wait upon God and remember how God sought to win our love through the gift of His Son, we shall realize that God has a strong longing for our love.

Our hearts are blind. It is easy to forget that God longs for the love of His child. Once we believe it, we will feel constrained to wait before God and ask Him to let His light shine into our hearts. As the sun gives us its light, God is a thousand times more willing to give us the light of His love.

As we wait silently before God, we become strong in the assurance of faith. God, who longs for our love, is almighty and will fill us with His love by the Holy Spirit.

Take time each day to love God and believe Him with firmer faith. God will work within us, granting the desire to love Him with our whole heart. He will enable us to prove our love by keeping His commandments.

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The Despair of Self

Published August 11, 2016

The Despair of Self

“If we love our Christian brothers and sisters it proves that we have passed from death to eternal life.” 1 John 3:14

When the truth of God touches our hearts, we know we cannot overcome the hardness of heart and pride just by the force of our
own reason. It is only through death to ourselves that we can pass into life. There is no real conversion from the life of sin
until we realize that our whole nature must be parted with, but we discover that in ourselves we cannot do it.

Through this despair we lose all our life to find a new one in God. Here faith, hope and true seeking for God are born. But up to this point, faith and hope and turning to God in prayer have been practiced only by obligation and method. They are
not living qualities of a new birth until we have stopped feeling any confidence in ourselves.

We must feel within the reach of divine love. We must feel that God created us to be a habitation of His own life and Holy Spirit. In dealing with us, LOVE is God’s bait. It will put its hook into the heart and make us realize that nothing is so strong, so irresistible, as divine love.

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Published May 23, 2016

Absolute Dependence

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“Yes, I am the vine, you are the branches… For apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

The Christian Life is a life of Absolute dependence. At Hampton Court there was a vine that sometimes bore a couple thousand cluster of grapes. People were amazed at its productivity. Later the secret was discovered. Not too far from Hampton Court flows the River Thames. The vine had stretched its roots hundreds of yards under the ground until it came to the riverbed. There, in all the nutrients of the river bottom, it found rich nourishment and moisture. The roots drew the sap all the distance to the branches.

The vine had the work to do. The branches simply had to depend upon the vine and receive what it gave.

That is exactly what Christ desires you to understand. Christ desires that in all your work, the very foundation should be the simple acceptance that Christ must care for all.

As you depend on Him He supplies your needs by sending down the Holy Spirit. Jesus wants you to be dependent as you serve Him. Day by day, hour by hour, in everything you do, simply abide before Him. Live in the total helplessness of one who can do nothing.

Absolute dependence upon God is the secret of power at work. You and I have nothing unless we receive it from Jesus.

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Bearing Fruit

Published April 7, 2016

Bearing Fruit

“The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.” James 5:16

A branch is a growth of the vine, produced to bear fruit. It has only one purpose: that through it the vine may bear and ripen its fruit. As the vine lives to produce the sap that makes the grape, so the branch receives that sap and bears the grape. Its work is to serve the vine so that, through the branch, the vine may do
its work.

The believer, the branch of Christ the heavenly Vine, is to live exclusively so Christ may bear fruit through him. A true Christian is to be devoted to the work of bearing fruit to the glory of God.

With our life abiding in Him, and His words abiding and ruling in our heart, there will be grace to pray as we should and faith to receive whatever we ask.

The promises of our Lord’s farewell discourse appear to us too large to be taken literally. We rationalize them to meet our human ideas of what we think they ought to be. We separate them from the life of devotion to Christ’s service for which they were given.

God’s covenant is: give all and take all. One who is willing to be nothing but a branch of Christ, the Vine, will receive liberty to claim Christ’s riches in all their fullness and the wisdom and humility to use them properly.

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The Exceeding Greatness of His Power

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Published March 6, 2016

The Exceeding Greatness of His Power

“I pray for you constantly, asking God …. to give you spiritual wisdom … I pray that you will begin to understand the incredible greatness of His power.” Ephesians 1:16-17, 19

This is one of the great texts that will make our faith strong and bold. Paul was writing to believers who had been sealed with the Holy Spirit. Yet he felt the need to pray for them for the enlightening of the Holy Spirit. They needed to know that it was the mighty power of God that was working in them. It was the very same power by which God raised Christ from the dead.

When Christ died on the cross, He died under the weight of the sin of the world and its curse. When He descended into the grave, it was under the weight of all that sin that He was buried. The power of death had apparently conquered Him. But the mighty power of God raised Christ from the dead to a place of honor at God’s right hand.

It is that very same power that is working in us every day of our lives. The God Who said to Abraham, “Is there anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14), pledges to work His power in us, too, if we will learn to trust Him.

Pray in faith to God and trust His Holy Spirit to enable us to claim nothing less that the exceeding greatness of this Resurrection power working in us.

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Published February 9, 2016

The Earth Filled with His Glory

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“Bless His glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen! Psalm 72:19

What a prospect – this earth, now under the power of the evil one, renewed and filled with the glory of God. Though it is hard to believe, it surely will come to pass; God’s Word is the pledge of it. God’s Son, by His blood and death, conquered the power of sin. The power of God is working out His purpose and the whole earth will be filled with His glory!

But it is a difficult work. It is two thousand years since Christ ascended the throne, and yet hundreds of millions have never learned the name of Jesus. Of the rest, there are millions have never learned the name of Jesus. Of the rest, there are millions called by His name, yet they don’t even know Him. This work of bringing the knowledge of Christ to every creature has been entrusted to the Church that thinks little of its responsibility and of the consequence of its neglect. Will the work ever be done? God’s power and faithfulness are pledges that one day we shall see it – the whole earth filled with the glory of God.

What a wonderful prayer! For it is a prayer: “Let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen!” Every believer is called to this prayer. How wonderful to now that true prayer will indeed be answered! What a joy to seek Gods’ face and, with confidence, pray with perseverance until the earth is full of His Glory!

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Published August 19, 2015

The Christlike Life

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“Your attitude should be the same that Chris Jesus had.”
Philippians 2:5

What was the attitude that was in Christ Jesus? “Though He was
God, He did not demand and cling to His rights as God. He made
Himself nothing; He took the humble position of a slave and
appeared in human form. And in human form He obediently
humbled Himself even further by dying a criminal’s death on a cross.”

(Philippians 2:6-8). Self-emptying and self-sacrifice, obedience to
God’s will, and love to men, even unto death of the Cross –
this was the character of Christ for which God so highly exalted
Him. It is the character of Christ that we are to imitate. He was
made in the likeness of men, so we could be conformed into the
likeness of God.

Self-effacement and self-sacrifice that God’s will might be
done and that man might be saved – this was the attitude of
Christ. He lived only to please God and to bless men.

Don’t say that this is an impossibility. What is impossible
with men is possible with God. We are called to work out this
salvation of a Christlike character with fear and trembling; for
“God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey Him and
the power to do what pleases Him” (Philippians 2:13) As we
pray, let this be our one aim: to have the attitude that was in
Christ Jesus.

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Published July 12, 2015

Christ in Me

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“Examine yourselves to see if your faith is really genuine.” 2 Corinthians 13:5

Christ is in me. What a difference it would make if we could take time every morning to focus on the thought. Christ is in me.

Christ made it clear to His disciples. The Spirit would teach them; “When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (John 14:20). Through the power of God we who believe were crucified with Christ and raised again with Him. As a result Christ is in us! Through faith in God’s Word, the Christian accepts it.

Paul expresses this thought in the prayer of (Ephesians 3:16); “I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you mighty inner strength through His Holy Spirit.” Notice that it is not the ordinary gift of grace, but a special revelation of the riches of His love that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. Have you been able to grasp that?

Paul said: “I fall to my knees and pray to the Father” (Ephesians 3:14). That is the only way to obtain the blessing. Take time in prayer in His presence to realize: ‘Christ dwells in me.” Even in the midst of your daily schedule, look upon your heart as the dwelling place of the Son of God. Then Christ’s words: “Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit.” (John 15:5) will become your daily experience.

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