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Fear Respect

Love & Respect for God

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The command to love the Lord our God with all we are holds nearly everything in common with the command to fear the Lord our God.

When you go through the scriptures and study the Fear of the Lord, you percieve it from two perspectives.

First is our perspective as the created and it makes sense. God is Eternal, Almighty and is our Maker. Respect is therefore more due Him!

The second perspective is God’s which we can only know so far as He allows it with our imaginations. But by God shaping the earthly creation after His likeness, we see that our respect for God is a much an expression of our love and adoration for Him as it is for a husband from his wife. To say you love a man and yet do not respect him is as transparent a lie and could be told – and so it is in our relation with God our Maker.

The Fear of the Lord is to wisely percieve who you are in realtion to the Creator and respect it.

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Weight Command

The weight of the Command

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As human beings I think it is an obvious truth that in all reality we don’t do anything for any duration of time with ALL OUR HEART. The effort alone would be daunting as well as physically, mentally and emotionally draining.

As such, I believe if we ever to really focus on the meaning and scope of the 1st and greatest command, it would leave us with an overwhelming sense of discouragement. This is because it is quite impossible for any human being to keep this command for the same reasons stated above.

So how can it be done? Well believe it or not, the gospel teaches us that the first step in keeping any command is being cogently aware and completely convinced in our own INability to accomplish it!

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Spirit Kingdom

The Spirit & the Kingdom

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One day a scribe asked Jesus what is the greatest commandment of all.

Jesus said that to Listen to God with the intent of obeying out of our deep reverence for Him, to love Him with all we are and to love our neighbor as ourselves were the greatest commands of all.

The scribe readily agreed and added that such was greater than all sacrifices and burnt offerings.

Jesus replied to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God”.

Today we began to explore these commands, the heart behind them and the way the Holy Spirit enables the keeping of them that we might be partakers and participants in God’s kingdom!

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Spirit Edification Order Women

The Spirit brings Edification & Order – Part 2

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In this session we are continuing to learn more about our relationship/partnetship with the Holy Spirit in ministry.

In this portion of Chapter 14 Paul bears down on the order and authority God established from creation and which MUST be observed by His children in all places, but in the church especially.

It is imperative to always come to God’s word without a bias and to say AMEN to ANYTHING He says PRIOR to beginning your study. Without this reverence for God, His word and His absolute sovereignty over His creation we open ourselves up to twisting the scriptures to our own agendas.

Perhaps this, more than most issues in scripture is a primary example of the need for this type of caution since it addresses issues of gender and authority.

I truly hope this lession will aid you not only in better understanding order in the church in the expression of the gifts, but even more importantly in coming to better know the Spirit of God with Whom we partner in the work of the ministry of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ!

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Answer Prayer

He IS the answer to the prayers we pray

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Like many Davidic Psalms, we find David possessing a very personal relationship with God. In every season and circumstance in his life, David’s prayers were not for God to just do something FOR him. Instead, David’s prayers took on a more relational tone by asking God to BE hishelper, Be his strong tower, BE his refuge…etc.

This approach to prayer is also seen in another – namely Jesus our Messiah and Lord Who prayed with intimacy and devotional love.

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