Monthly Archives: August 2009

I am usually up at 4 am; it seems to be the time God has allotted for me to just sit in His present. Praying daily and specifically for your own purity knowing the sinfulness of my nature. God seems to give me a portion of His grace to sustain from the lust of the flesh. As I watch God pour His grace into me, it’s amazing to see that He only gives me a measure for a day. In my zeal for God I asked for more, but God response was, “if I give you more, tomorrow My presents would not be desired of you. It’s your desire to be filled my son that keeps you coming back to me.”

So often the grace that God gives us is only a day’s potion, however the world of prosperity and its teaching; keeps us from the fountain. I am amazed that so few men and woman who are concerned about their lives pray daily about it. We should also enlist the prayers of our spouse, family and friends, and pray for others in this respect. As I reflect on the countless lives I encounter through God’s gift of discernment; the lack of time spent.

As I seek God’s portion for me this morning I also stand on behalf of you. This morning; so many people are positioning themselves to be asked to pray a rehearsed prayer to only be seen and heard by men. God is seeking your sacrifice of commitment to Him not for show. Pray for the purity of your friends. They need it, and so do you!

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35

I was a Christian a long time before I found out that the Holy Ghost was a person. Now this is something a great many don’t seem to understand, but if you will just take up the Bible and see what Christ had to say about the Holy Spirit, you will find that He always spoke of Him as a person—never spoke of Him as an influence. Some people have an idea that the Holy Spirit is an attribute of God, just like mercy—just an influence coming from God.

But we find in the fourteenth chapter of John, sixteenth verse, these words: “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter that He may abide with you forever.” And again, in the same chapter, seventeenth verse: “Even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can not receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him; but you know Him; for He dwells with you and shall be in you.”

Again, in the twenty-sixth verse of the same chapter: “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.” Observe the pronouns “He” and “Him.” I want to call attention to this fact that whenever Christ spoke of the Holy Ghost He spoke of Him as a person, not a mere influence; and if we want to honor the Holy Ghost, let us bear in mind that He is one of the Trinity, a personality of the Godhead.

Jesus wept. (John 11:35) This very short but powerful verse has become one of my favorites. Can you imagine Jesus, among the commotion and the loud wailing of the mourners? Jesus shed tears. What made Jesus cry? Was it his love for Lazarus? Was it the presence of sadness and death? Or was it the faithless grief that surrounded him? For whatever the reason, the situation caused Jesus to shed some tears. The picture of Jesus as being impassive in the face of genuine human suffering is not consistent with the picture in Isaiah, which describes him as a “man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3).

JESUS WEPT
Several views have been put forth to explain Jesus’ weeping. The most common are as follows:
 Jesus wept in sympathy for the ones he loved who were grieving.
 Jesus wept for all people who grieve over the death of loved ones.
 Jesus wept over the frailty of life and the ravages of sin and despair.
 Jesus wept in anger over those present who remained in unbelief in the face of death.
 Jesus wept in sorrow for having to call Lazarus back from eternity into a world where he would die again.

Tears, however, are not self-explanatory; and since Jesus chose not to explain them, we are left with a variety of possibilities for what he might have felt.

The passion, the love, the care, the emotions, the hurt, the grief, the tears—Jesus stepped into this world and displayed all these things. When was the last time you stepped into His?

I WEPT
As I sit with my bible on my desk opened to John 11:35 and I can see my Savior weeping over all the things I would have to endure in this life. At that moment I wept.
 I wept when I look at how he must have felt in the Garden of Gethsemane sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44)
 I wept when I think of the kiss received in (Luke 22:47) and how so many draw near Him now with the kiss of betrayal.
 I wept when I hear the rooster crow in (Luke 22:60) and how so many today will walk with Him as long as is it is convenient and the company they keep is pleasant.
 I wept when I feel the pain of (Luke 22:63) when my Savior allowed Himself to be beaten and I think about the saints unwillingness to suffer, with Him.
 I wept when I the Words of Jesus come alive to me in (Luke 22:67) “You rightly say I am” as they didn’t believe so many of our action betray the same.
 I wept as the words unpeeled themselves from (Luke 23:22) when Pilate said, he found no reason to put Jesus to death, but the holy people as of this day crucify Him all over again.
 I wept when I here Jesus say in (Luke 23:28) not to weep for Him but for yourselves and your children, and I think are the saints willing to weep over the condition of God children or too concerned about prosperity?
 I wept when I her Jesus saying in (Luke 23:34 Father forgive them for they know not what they do, I can’t help but think of the multitudes that use Him for financial gain.
 I wept when I look a (Luke 23:35) when the rulers said He saved others let Him save Himself, and I think of the hypocrisy of leaders today.
 I wept when I look at (Luke 23:36) when the soldiers offered my Savior sour wine, and it dunned on me how many Christians offer Christ’s lips the sour taste of Prosperity Gospel.
 I wept when I look at (Mark 15:34) I can hear Jesus, saying “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Knowing that my Savior had taken on your sin and my sin and it look so bad God turned His back to it.
 I wept when I look at (John 19:34) when the soldier pierced the side of my Savior with a spear. For you and me what could have happened didn’t, the angels didn’t come to rescue Him nor did He save Himself from the pain, but died for our sins.

When was the last time you wept? The last time you fell into the arms of God’s Word? I am not talking about emotional weeping from listening to moving praise and worship songs, but allow your tears to wrinkle up the pages of your bible. Weeping to the point that you are willing to do as Jesus did, take a dead to sin body that has been in the buried long enough to has a bad odor. By the power of the Holy Spirit allow it to live again for Christ.