We Should All Want This!

"...that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:19)

Imagine being filled with all the fullnes of God! What does this mean and how do we get there? Perhaps the answer to this question is found in Ephesians 3:17-20 which says: "...that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith...according to the power at work within us."

Do you want to be filled with all the fullness of God? Evidently, our faith in Jesus Christ leads to or activates the (Holy Spirit's) power at work in us, which when combined, fills us with all the fullness of God. This is fantastic! We need to let God have His way with us, no "if's, and's or but's". We simply have to, once and for all, put to death all of the worldliness, sin and self-will that abides in us. Only then can we hope to be filled with all the fullness of God and, thereby, become what He created us to be, viz., His sons and daughters, in order that He might, as Paul said in Galatians 1:16, "reveal his Son in me." Agreed?

A Prayer For Today...And Everyday!

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer" (Psalms 19:14)

"I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High." (Psalms 7:17)

Will You Keep God's Commandments?

Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments." (John 14:15)

Quoting Dr. Robert B. Thompson:

"Ours is both a wonderful age and a terrible age. The wheat and the tares are coming to maturity. The issue is that of obedience to God. The wheat obey every Word of God—they live by the Word of God as it proceeds from His mouth. The tares are the children of the Lawless One. They live according to their own will. They have no intention of keeping the commandments of God, of being the bondslave of Christ, of taking up their cross and following the Lord Jesus."

"Christian teaching often appeals to the tares. It informs the tares that if they make a profession of belief in Christ they can live as they please. They will be brought to the spirit paradise that they may live in bliss forever whether or not they ever learn to keep God's commandments."

"It seems impossible that anyone would believe such an unscriptural doctrine but this lie accounts for the "faith" of the majority of Christians of our day."

"It appears that few believers in our country fear God or intend to obey Him sternly and diligently. Few Christians of our day realize that Antichrist already has deceived numerous believers. Few Christians of our day realize we are approaching an age of moral horrors without precedent in history. The scenes of lust and perversion we see today are only a prelude to the uncontrolled, wild orgies yet to come."

"[Our] government is protecting sexual perversion by law. Recently the government of America set aside a national monument to honor the victims of AIDS. Yet AIDS is associated with drugs and promiscuity. Why isn't there a national monument honoring those who have died of cancer or heart disease? With all due compassion for those who are suffering the horrible symptoms of AIDS, isn't it true we no longer are able to judge righteous judgment? Is someone who died from AIDS to be honored in the same manner as those buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the place of distinction for those who have died in defense of their country?"

"This is just the beginning. The television and the Internet are making sin increasingly available. Before long we shall see people shaking their fist at God because of the destruction that is to fall on America, at one time the home of God-fearing, industrious, morally clean people who honored integrity of character. Of course, there always has been sin in America. But nothing to compare with what is taking place today."

"If you wish to stand before Jesus in victory, then begin to keep His commandments. Study your Bible. Ask the Lord to cleanse you from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Ask the Lord to baptize you with fire—fire that will burn away all rebellion and disobedience to God."

"Keep Christ's Word. If you do, the Father and Christ will make their eternal abode in you. This will be your salvation and safety during the dark hours that lie ahead of us."

"If you love Jesus you will keep His commandments." Amen?

"And now, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?"
(Deuteronomy 10:12-13)

The Temptations Of Christ:

The Bible tells us that, "Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness for forty days and was tempted there by the devil". (See Luke 4:1-12)

Fortunately for us, Jesus overcame all of Satan's temptations. But where would we be if He hadn't? Where would we be if Jesus had accepted any part of what Satan was offering Him?

Here's something to think about: As Jesus was tempted by the devil, in like manner so shall we be tempted by the devil as we live our Christian lives. This being the case, what will happen to all of the people who are trusting in and depending on us if we accept any of Satan's offers?

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." (James 4:7)

"The Loneliness Of The Christian"

By A.W. Tozer

"The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share his inner experiences he is forced to walk alone."

"The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way."

"The man [or woman] who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens."

"He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart."

"It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else."

From Man - The Dwelling Place of God, Chapter 39: "The Saint Must Walk Alone".

Are You An "Overcomer"?

"And they overcame him* by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and by not loving their lives, even unto death." (Revelation 12:11)

* "...Satan, the deceiver of the whole world". (Revelation 12:9))

Simply put, this is how we, God's people, gain entrance into the Kingdom of God. Are you overcoming?

A Very Needful Word For God's People!

"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, 'I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore, go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.'"
(2nd Corinthians 6:14-18)

What a marvelous promise from God! We all need to become a whole lot less friendly and familiar with the world and a whole lot more friendly and familiar with our Lord and our God. Amen?

What Does Our Life Consist Of?

Jesus said, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses." (Luke 12:15)

Instead, our lives should consist of God who possesses us and fills us with the abundance of His Spirit.

Pour Out Your Spirit Upon Us, O Lord!

The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by churches becoming filled with people, but by people in the churches becoming filled with God.

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord comes: And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:17-21)

What an incredible day that will be!

Are We Really Christians, Or Are We Just Kidding Ourselves?

Oswald Chambers asks, "Do I accept God's verdict on sin in the Cross of Christ? Do I have the slightest interest in the death of Jesus? Do I want to be identified with His death, to be killed right out to all interest in sin, in worldliness, in self--to be so identified with Jesus that I am spoiled for everything else but Him?"

Well, do you?

"But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." (Galatians 6:14)

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