"You must love all that God has created, both His entire world and each tiny little sand grain of it, then your mind will open itself to an all embracing love." Fyodor Dostoyevsky







Wednesday, December 12, 2012

More Than a Name

 
It's amazing how the Lord will direct us in our life as we allow... or leave us to wander aimlessly as we try to direct our own...
Have you ever been just so distraught... not knowing what to expect... not knowing which direction to go...
He really does have all the answers... no He doesn't just speak right out loud to us like He did to Moses... today for Christians He talks to us through His Word... the Bible... through others like our ministers, family members, friends... and even through a stranger in the grocery store line...
 
This morning He spoke to me here in my faithful "Morning With Tozer"...
I love to share with all of you His wonderful works in my life... I pray that this will be a testimony to Him... to His ever faithful love for me... even when I stumble and fall... He is always there to pick me up and carry me through...
 
Enjoy His precious promises and love...
 
Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 2 Timothy 2:19
 
"There have always been professing Christians who argue and insist: "I am all right—I worship in the name of Jesus." They seem to believe that worship of God is based on a formula. They seem to think there is a kind of magic in saying the name of Jesus!
 
Study the Bible carefully with the help of the Holy Spirit and you will find that the name and the nature of Jesus are one. It is not enough to know how to spell Jesus' name!
 
If we have come to be like Him in nature, if we have come to the place of being able to ask in accordance with His will, He will give us the good things we desire and need. (emphasis minie)
 
We worship God as the result of a new birth from above in which God has been pleased to give us more than a name.
 
He has given us a nature transformed, and Peter expresses that truth in this way: "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:4)." Tozer
 
Until next time,
Jean

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