GOD RESTORES AND SUSTAINS

God wants you to have a deep knowledge of Him and His plan for your life!- Time with God

  Time with God by John North

Ephesians 1:15-19

For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.

God wants you to have a deep knowledge of Him and His plan for your life!

He desires that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. He wants you to know the hope of His calling, to understand what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and to know the surpassing greatness of His power toward you. But how will this spiritual understanding come to you? By snapping your fingers? By saying “Amen” at the end of your prayer?

No. You will come to understand these things as you meditate on God and His word with an open, receptive heart to the Spirit of God. Linger with Him now.

We are Just a Vapor

"The key to investing in eternity is following God's plan for your life, not just filling your days with activities. Jesus was allocated just thirty-three years of life on earth, but only the last three were spent in fulfilling His Messianic ministry. To us that seems like a waste of time. Yet Christ accomplished everything His Father gave Him to do. That's why on the cross He could say, "It is finished" (John 19:30

Scripture compares earthly life to "a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14), but eternal life never ends. It's foolish to spend your life on a vapor when you can reap everlasting benefits by following God's will for your time here. Each day is an opportunity to choose."

 - In Touch Daily Devotion

Meditation is different from prayer!- Time with God

Time with God

Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.

Meditation is different from prayer!

Notice that the psalmist talks about two things: first there are “the words of my mouth”, and then there is a second thing—“the meditation of my heart”. Meditation is distinct from my words. Both prayer and meditation are crucial to our walk with God. In spite of this we pray little and meditate almost not at all.

Because of the nature of meditation, it’s really important that we set aside a special time for it, and a secluded place where the world won’t intrude. And it’s also important to get quiet. In this peaceful place we come to God and ask Him to guide our thoughts. You may have a particular Scripture or issue to meditate on, or you may simply focus on God Himself.

Biblical meditation is different from mystical meditation, because it doesn’t involve the emptying of the mind, but rather the filling of the mind with Scripture and the things of God, while inviting God to direct our thoughts about it.

As you meditate, it’s really good to close your meditation time by jotting down the key thoughts that came out of it in your journal. Can you take some time right now for meditation? 

Unforgivable Sin

He was there alone... to pray -Time with God

Time with God

Matthew 14:22-23

Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the crowds away. After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

You must get alone with God!

The Lord Jesus’ own life teaches us this lesson so powerfully today. If we are going to learn to meditate on the things of God, we need to follow Jesus’ example and often get alone with God. Jesus would often slip away to the wilderness, or go up on a mountain. He would find a secluded place to focus on His heavenly Father.

Get away from the Internet, from your magazines, from the TV. Turn your phone off, and your mobile too. Do what it takes to truly have time alone with God. He is looking forward to that special time with you, alone together up on His“mountain”.

You may even have to shut yourself in the bathroom to find that secluded space, if you have small children. (You’ll emerge a calmer, happier parent! They’ll wonder what happened…)

You want to be greatly used by God in other people’s lives. But as Leonard Ravenhill put it, “To be much for God, we must be much with God.” He was right. Your inner spiritual life determines your usefulness to God.

One with Christ Jesus - Faiths Checkbook by C.H. Spurgeon

Faiths Checkbook by C.H. Spurgeon

Jesus has made the life of believers in Him as certain as His own. As sure as the Head lives the members live also. If Jesus has not risen from the dead, then are we dead in our sins; but since He has risen, all believers are risen in Him. His death has put away our transgressions and loosed the bonds which held us under the death sentence. His resurrection proves our justification: we are absolved, and mercy saith, "The LORD hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die." Jesus has made the life of His people as eternal as His own. How can they die as long as He lives, seeing they are one with Him? Because He dieth no more, and death hath no more dominion over Him, so they shall no more return to the graves of their old sins but shall live unto the LORD in newness of life. O believer, when, under great temptation, thou fearest that thou shalt one day fall by the hand of the enemy, let this reassure thee. Thou shalt never lose thy spiritual life, for it is hid with Christ in God. Thou dost not doubt the immortality of thy LORD; therefore, do not think that He will let thee die, since thou art one with Him. The argument for thy life is His life, and of that thou canst have no fear; wherefore rest in thy living LORD.