The timing of the Lord is truly perfect. I am reading the book called: In His Face by Bob Sorge. I got the book about 2 months ago, started it, put it down and now have picked it back up again. The book is a "prophetic call to renewed focus." The focus: Jesus. Being in His face, learning who He is, knowing your identity before Him and trusting His goodness, faithfulness & leadership.
Following are a few nuggets I have enjoyed and am pondering thus far. (for more detail you'll have to get the book!)
~God wants us to have passion, purity, and perseverance.
~The more time we spend with the Lord in His word and in His face, the more we will be like Him.
Following are a few nuggets I have enjoyed and am pondering thus far. (for more detail you'll have to get the book!)
~God wants us to have passion, purity, and perseverance.
~The more time we spend with the Lord in His word and in His face, the more we will be like Him.
~God desires us to have passion for Him and for His church body. Psalm 42:1-As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
Psalm 69:9-for zeal for your house consumes me...
~The biggest disease of American Christianity is apathy. It means: NO PASSION!
~We must have passion with purity... moral purity.
~We must have passion with purity... moral purity.
~In emotional and dark times we can turn to other things to fuel our hearts. If we give into the temptations we can fall to false moral compromise.
Isa 50:10-11-Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant?
Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
Isa 50:10-11-Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant?
Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
~We must have perseverance! God is not in a hurry or on our time table! From pg. 32 of book:
"The New Testament word "perseverance" describes the capacity to bear up under difficult circumstances, not with a passive complacency, but with a hopeful fortitude that actively resists weariness and defeat."
Isa 30:18-Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Isa 49:23-For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.
I am in the process of waiting on the Lord, learning how to be still and above all I desire to have passion, purity, and perseverance.
Be blessed in the journey!
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