Psalms 50 - Worship

Friday 18 July 2014

No matter what happens - He Is God!

He is in control!
He is on His holy mountain and He does not move!
He is steadfast and constant!
He will not change!
He is holy, holy, holy! Mighty, righteous and true!

Jude 1:24 - Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of                     His glory blameless with great joy.
        1:25 - to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and                           authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
                  (These words were penned by one of Jesus' younger brothers, someone who grew up with Him,                     whose eyes had seen and hands held - What a privilege!)

Psalm 50
 4: He summons the heavens above,
     And the earth, to judge His people:
 5: "Gather My godly ones to Me,
     Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." (through Jesus)
 6: And the heavens declare His righteousness,
     For God Himself is judge. [Selah.
 7: "Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
     O Israel, I will testify against you;
     I am God, your God. (David would have rather been handed over to God for judgement than man.                                                  Would we not choose the same?)
 8: "I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
     And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
 9: I shall take no young bull out of your house,
     Nor male goats out of your folds.
10: "For every beast of the forest is Mine.
      The cattle on a thousand hills. (What can we give God?)
11: "I know every bird of the mountains.
       And everything that moves in the field is Mine. (What can we show God?)
12: "If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
       For the world is Mine,
       and all it contains.
13: "Shall I eat the flesh of bulls,
      Or drink the blood of male goats? (How could we nourish God?)
(God gives us the answer right here)
14: "Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
      And pay your vows to the Most High;
15: And call upon Me in the day of trouble;
      I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me."

23: "He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;
      And to him who orders his way aright
      I will show the salvation of God."

Psalm 100
 4: Enter His gates with thanksgiving,
     And His courts with praise.
     Give thanks to Him; bless His name.
 5: For the LORD is good;
     His lovingkindness is everlasting,
     And His faithfulness is to all generations.

So the only thing we can truly give God is our worship. It would seem we need to find out just what true worship entails. Pretty exciting!

God Bless Your Day Today!
Terrie

Joshua Chapter One, Post One

Wednesday 8 January 2014
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. - Hebrews 13:8 NLT

Because this is true - so also is this:

Joshua 1:3 - "Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses.
1:4 - "From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all of the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, will be your territory.
1:5 - "No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.
1:6 - "Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
1:7 - "Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.
1:8 - "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
1:9 - "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

Jesus said during the Sermon on the Mount, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill." - Matthew 5:17

Jesus fulfilled the Law, so we can walk in the freedom of God's grace and mercy, and His love and acceptance; so that "every place on which the sole of your foot treads" is the Promised Land. He has given it to us. We just have to be strong and courageous and trust that He is with us wherever we go.

Matt Redman - Never Let Go

The book of Joshua is so encouraging to me. In the first chapter alone God says to be, "Be strong and courageous" three times.

I hope you enjoyed your day today.
Terrie

Post Eighteen, There Is A Fountain

Sunday 20 October 2013

I have not posted in awhile. I got stuck on Jehovah-rapha, the Lord that heals. There is so much to be said on this subject. I pondered it for a few days and then... distraction, shiny objects, whatever the excuse; I am back now. The Lord is gracious and He is faithful. I am still not ready to discuss Jehovah-rapha, but I did discover something I thought was interesting.

I have loved the Hymn, There Is A Fountain, for so many years. It may not be one of the most popular hymns, but it brings tears to my eyes. I did a Google search on it the other day and discovered that it was written by William Cowper not long before his death on 25 April 1800.

I am a big fan of Jane Austen and, as it turns out, Jane Austen was a big fan of William Cowper. She quoted him in Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Sanditon. He was her favorite poetical moralist.

William Cowper, himself, is interesting. He sometimes suffered from melancholia and depression and spent some time in an asylum. But, Romans 8:28 came into play in his life. He moved into a little house in Olney, England who's backyard connected with the parsonage backyard. And, guess who was the reverend of the parish; it was John Newton, the man who wrote Amazing Grace!

William Cowper and John Newton became very close friends. They worked together to write poetry for the services at the parish and collaborated to write a book called Olney Hymns. This book contains 349 hymns and became one of the most important contributions to musical worship in Evangelical Christianity.

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." - Romans 8:28

William Cowper had bouts of doubt about his salvation and God's love for him, but one day while sitting alone at his desk after reading

Zechariah 13:1-"In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity."

the Holy Spirit inspired him to write these words:

There is a fountain filled with blood
drawn from Immanuel's veins
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains

The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
and there may I, though vile as he
Wash all my sins away

Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose it's power
Till all the ransomed church of God
Are saved, to sin no more

For since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my theme
and shall be till I die

When this poor lisping,
stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave
Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I'll sing thy power to save

There Is A Fountain by Selah

Lamentations

3:21-"This I recall to my mind,

          Therefore I have hope.

3:22-"The LORD"S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,

          For His compassions never fail.

3:23-"They are new every morning;

         Great is Thy faithfulness."

Praise the Lord Jesus!

Terrie

Post Seventeen, Jehovah-jireh

Friday 2 August 2013

Today we will discuss Jehovah-jireh - The Lord will provide!

The first time this name is used is when Abraham took Isaac to Moriah to offer his son as a burnt offering in Genesis 22:1-19, where God provided the ram as the burnt offering instead of Isaac.

All along in this story Abraham kept his faith that God would provide. He told the men with them, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder, and we will worship and return to you."

He told Isaac, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."

And even as he built the altar, arranged the wood, bound Isaac, laid him on the wood, stretched out his hand, and took out the knife to slay Isaac, he showed his faith in God, that He would make everything all right. And the Lord did!

But not only in this instance, the Lord Jesus has shown Himself to provide in every book of the Bible.

In Genesis - the Ram at Abraham's Altar
Exodus - the Passover Lamb
Leviticus - the High Priest
Numbers - Cloud by Day and the Pillar of Fire by Night
Deuteronomy - City of our Refuge
Joshua - Scarlet Thread out Rahab's window
Judges - He is our Judge
Ruth - our Kinsman Redeemer
First and Second Samuel - Trusted Prophet
First and Second Kings, First and Second Chronicles - our Reigning King
Ezra  - our Faithful Scribe
Nehemiah - Re-builder of everything that is broken
Esther - Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate
Job - our Redeemer that ever liveth
Psalms - He is my Shepherd and I shall not want
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes - our Wisdom
Song of Solomon - the Beautiful Bridegroom
Isaiah - Suffering Servant
Jeremiah and Lamentations - Jesus is the Weeping Prophet
Ezekiel - Wonderful Four-faced Man
Daniel - Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace
Hosea - My Love that is ever faithful
Joel - He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit
Amos - our Burden Berrer
Obadiah - our Savior
Jonah - Great Foreign Missionary that takes the word of God into all the world
Micah - Messenger with beautiful feet
Nahum - the Avenger
Habakkuk - the Watchman that is ever praying for revival
Zephaniah - The Lord Mighty to Save
Haggai - the Restorer of our lost heritage
Zechariah - our Fountain
Malachi - the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings
Matthew - Thou are the Christ the Son of the Living God
Mark - the Miracle Worker
Luke - The Son of Man
John - The Door by which everyone of us must enter
Acts - The Shining Light that appears to Saul on the road to Damascus
Romans - our Justifier
1 Corinthians - Our Resurrection
2 Corinthians - Our Sin Berrer
Galatians - He redeems us from the law
Ephesians - our Unsearchable Riches
Philippians - He supplies our every need
Colossians - the fullness of the Godhead
First and Second Thessalonians - our Soon and Coming King
First and Second Timothy - the mediator between God and man
Titus - our Blessed Hope
Philemon - a Friend that sticks closer than a brother
Hebrews - the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant
James - He is the Lord that heals the sick
First and Second Peter - the Chief Shepherd
First, Second, and Third John - Jesus who has the tenderness of love
Jude - He is the Lord coming with ten thousand saints
Revelation - Lift up your eyes church for your Redemption draweth nigh
THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORD!

God Will Make A Way by Don Moen. This list is from a version of this song. I wrote it down and it has been in my Bible for many years, from the 80's I think.

If we call upon Him He will provide for us.

Philippians 4:19
"And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

Post Sixteen, Jehovah

Wednesday 31 July 2013

Since I found the Precepts Austin web site I was not going to continue with the names of God study. This web site is so comprehensive I thought there really was no need, but, I have come to realize that I need to finish this study. It has been my desire to know the names of God, to be able to call upon Him by His name, to know Him by these attributes, and I have found that I can only remember those names that I have put in a post. So, even if this is only for me, I need to finish this.

Having said that, I know God's word does not return void, and I pray this will bless you also.

Let's pick up at Jehovah. The first time this name is used is in Genesis 2:4 - "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD GOD made earth and heaven."

Any time you see LORD in the Old Testament it means Yahweh or Jehovah, and when you see Lord it means Adonai.

Nathan Stone said, "Thus when we read the name Jehovah, or LORD in capital letters, in our Bible, we think in terms of being or existence and life, and we must think of Jehovah as the Being who is absolutely self existent, the One who in Himself possesses essential life, permanent existence."

In Exodus chapter 3, when God called Moses from the burning bush, Moses responded,

Genesis 3:13
"Then Moses said to God, 'Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I shall say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, 'What is His name? What shall I say to them?'"

Genesis 3:14
"And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, 'Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

I AM WHO I AM is the inner meaning of Yahweh, "I am the One who is." This emphasizes "God's dynamic and active self-existence." I AM WHO you need Me to be when you need Me to be it. He is the Alpha and the Omega (the Beginning and the End), the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes.

James 1:17
"Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow."

My daughter reminded me that when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, when the soldiers came to arrest Him this exchange occurred,

John 18:4
"Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth, and said to them, 'Whom do you seek?'"

John 18:5
"They answered Him, 'Jesus the Nazarene.'" He said to them, "I am He." And Judas also who was betraying Him, was standing with them."

John 18:6
"When therefore He said to them, 'I am He,' they drew back, and fell to the ground."

"He" is italicized because it was added by the translators. Jesus actually said, "I Am" and so powerful was His statement that men, those who did not even know Him, who had come to arrest Him, fell back to the ground. Hallelujah - what a mighty God we serve!

Exodus 33:18
"Then Moses said, 'I pray Thee, show Me Thy glory!'"

And God's response was:

Exodus 34:5
"And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the LORD."

Exodus 34:6
"Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD GOD, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;'"

Show Me Your Glory by Jesus Culture

I put a link to the Precepts Austin page under blogs I read, or something like that, on the side under followers and about me.
So much for shorter posts!
I pray the Lord rains down showers of blessings on you today!!

Post Fifteen, God's Passion

Tuesday 30 July 2013

Yesterday we discussed peace. Today is God's Passion!

Hosea 2:19
"'And I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice.
In lovingkindness and in compassion.

Hosea 2:20
"And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will know the LORD."

First, we should talk about the word "lovingkindness." The meaning of this word is so deep into God's passion and concern for us. In the Hebrew the word is hesed and it means loyal, steadfast, or faithful love and stresses the idea of a belonging together of those involved in the love relationship.

Lovingkindness is used about 250 times in the Old Testament. Communion, deliverance, enablement, enlightenment, guidance, forgiveness, hope, praise, and preservation are all based on God's hesed.

But here, it connotes God's faithful love for His unfaithful people. The Lord does everything. He provides everything. This whole passage requires nothing from us. His love for us is not based on anything we do. It is not based on works. There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. We are already His passion! He wants us to know Him, to seek Him, to be with Him in a close relationship. Then we can worship Him in Spirit and truth. This is the reason we were created. We belong to Him!

You Won't Relent by Jesus Culture

Thank you Lord Jesus!

Post Fourteen, Peace

Monday 29 July 2013

Yesterday we discussed victory and freedom. Today we will discuss Peace.

Hosea 2:18
"'In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land.
And will make them lie down in safety.'"

Psalms 23 by Keith Green

This Psalm offers such provision, protection, and promises that it is often offered as a comfort at funerals. But, truly, in just six verses it creates such a sense of security and trust in the Lord that if we could get a hold of this for our everyday life we would walk in peace. This Psalm should be a study of it's own.

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