December 5 Devotional: Oswald Chambers
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. . . only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you -Genesis 41:40
. . . only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you -Genesis 41:40
"O Lord our God, have mercy upon us. Forgive us especially, we pray thee again, for our folly - for our foolish talking about our century and the 'modern man', as if anything had changed.
Awaken us, we pray thee, and bring us to see that thy method is still the same, that the truth remains unchanged and unchanging, and that the power of the blessed Holy Spirit is in no sense diminished.
Lord, hear us. Revive thy work O Lord, thy mighty arm make bare. Speak with a voice that wakes the dead and make the people hear. And unto thee, and unto thee alone, shall we give all the praise and the honour and the glory, both now and forever, amen."
So here I am. Guest blogging on the big mouth... A blog that I love that my sister Julie has which speaks so eloquently about life and Christ and His influence in her life.
She's funny and real and she relates His love to her simple doings. Work, raising Bill, being married, going to Target, cooking, dressing, rocking out to music and movies and basically figuring out how to live a Christian life amongst all the influences and media and texting and emails and all the things that take us away from the quiet. Quiet thoughts, quiet prayer, time when we just sit with ourselves and God and the universe and feel... peaceful. Serene. Connected to something bigger than we are. It is something that I'm working on.
I will be honest - I'm new to this whole Jesus business. I grew up Christian, but then went off to Meredith College and took a lot of religion classes and because of studying the Bible as a book, and not THE book, and other religions as well, I began to question things. Was the Bible a history book? How would a God so grand and forgiving and great condemn so so many people in the world just because they didn't know Christ?
The Bible says that we are to present our bodies "as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God." Of course, if you give your body, you give everything it contains. That means giving yourself wholly to God, and the idea of giving yourself wholly to God contains three laws.Read more: November 2 Devotional: AW Tozer-the law of surrender
B) Mental Attributes (190-197)
1) Knowledge (Omniscience)
a) God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act. (Job 37:16;1Jo. 3:20; 1Cor. 2:10-11)
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