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Handling the Dry Places

Descriptions of Dry Places

Isaiah 58:11 – And the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places.

Psalm 63:1-2, 7-8 – O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory… for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.  My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

Isaiah 41:17-18 – When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.  I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Psalm 42:1-3 – As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When shall I come and behold the face of God?

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  My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:3 – I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched.  My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalm 143:6 – I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.  Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails.  Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.  Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust.  Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

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Written on November 17th, 2010 , Faith, Knowing God, Presence of God
If You Need Strength…

When people lack strength, the pray for strength, ask others to pray for them, or maybe they try to be strong with all their might. When we ask or even beg for strength, we too many times go away without it. Why? Because we don’t believe and receive when we ask or we don’t put into practice the things the Word says concerning strength. Maybe we don’t even know what the Word says about strength.

If we come to the Lord and simply believe all of these things, if we read and do whatever they say, we can accept and expect the strength – every time we need it!

What does the Bible say to do when you need strength?

Nehemiah 8:10 – The joy of the Lord is my strength.  If I need more strength, I need to be filled more with the joy of the Lord. I need to rejoice in the Lord and offer sacrifices of praise and joy.

Psalm 27:1 – The Lord is the strength of my life.   If I need more strength, I need to get more filled with the Lord. If He is my strength, when I am filled with Him, I am filled with strength.

Psalm 8:2 w/Matthew 21:16 – Praise is equated with strength. I put on my strength through praising God.

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Written on November 17th, 2010 , Change & Growth, How To..., Strength
How to Draw Near

How can I spend time with God? What are some specific things I can do?

Last time we talked of the importance of getting to know God. Then we talked about getting to know God as He presents Himself in His Word. The first step is to study Jesus in the Word to find out what God is like.

The second step in getting to know God is to personally and regularly spend time with Him. I am not speaking of coming to Him with your list of prayer  requests but coming to Him to spend time with Him for the sake of developing friendship and intimacy. This is the way you would develop a better relationship with any person.

Attitudes to come to God in:

Come expecting Him to be a rewarder. The Bible says He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). You can know when you seek Him, He will reward you – just because it is written in His Word.

Come with righteousness consciousness (a sense or awareness of your right standing with God).

He has made you righteous, and all you need to is to humbly accept your acceptance and draw near. Don’t come apologizing for yourself or degrading yourself in false humility.  YOU ARE WELCOME IN HIS PRESENCE – Thank God, because of what He did not what you do.  You humble yourself in His presence by accepting His thoughts about you not by telling Him how bad you are. You draw near to Him and expect Him to draw near to you because He said He would. (James 4:6-8)

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Written on November 16th, 2010 , How To..., Knowing God, Prayer
How to Know God

Why Should I Know God?

First of all, He created you and loves you fiercely.  Second, you were designed to live in fellowship with Him, and without Him, you will never find the highest place designed for you in life.

There is nothing more important or valuable in life than getting to know God personally and intimately.  He has the answer to everything we confront in life and desires to help us in all things.

John 17:3 – And this is life eternal, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You hast sent.

Philippians 3:8-10 – That I may know Him. This is the greatest heart cry a Christian can have.  From this cry comes the cry, “that I may make Him known.”

A close relationship with God is the most important thing you can develop in life.  Without knowing God personally intimately you will never be fully complete or fulfill the purpose for your life, and you will always have a sense of something missing or lacking.

John 15:4-5 – The degree of abiding will be the degree of fruit bearing.  The value and power of what you do in life is dependent on how well you know God and abide in His presence.

How can we know God better?

STUDY THE WORD – God has given us His Word to reveal Himself to us.  We get to know God’s character through His Word.

Jesus came to show us God.  He is the expression of God’s character. God made Himself a man in Christ so we can see Him.  Christ is the revelation of God, the express image of God Himself.

Hebrews 1:1-3 – God spoke in the Old Testament in many portions and ways, but in the New  Testament He spoke through the Son, the exact representation of His nature or character.  Character is essential qualities, an individual’s pattern of behavior; personality.  Jesus came to show us God’s character.  Through watching Jesus in the Gospels, we see God’s pattern of behavior.

Matthew 13:35 – Jesus came to show us things about God that had been hidden since the foundation of the world. In the Old Testament God was revealed partly and partially; part of Him was hidden.

Titus 3:4 – The kindness of God and His love for mankind appeared.  This is the part of God we see clearly in Jesus.

John 1:14, 16-18 – The Word (Logos – the expression and thoughts of God) became flesh.  Jesus has explained God.  We beheld His glory.

Colossians 1:15 – Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God.

Matthew 11:27-30 – The Son reveals the Father.

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Written on November 16th, 2010 , How To..., Knowing God
Adventures in God

Matthew 28:18 – And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

My purpose in life is to fulfill this command of Jesus, especially the part to “teach them to observe all that I have commanded you…”  I desire to teach others the things I have learned throughout my 37 years of study, prayer and experience.  I long for people to have a true relationship with God through Jesus and learn to know Him as their friend and Savior and Father, as their Counselor and Helper in life, to learn to live in and through Him. I want them to know how to reach Him and receive from Him in every time of trouble as well as in their every day lives.

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My calling is not to be a “what to do” preacher as much as a “how to do it” teacher.  I don’t want to tell you what to do; I want to teach you HOW  TO  DO what you already know and desire to do.

I have had many truly wonderful and powerful “Adventures in God” through the years that others can also experience. That is the reason for this blog.

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Written on November 16th, 2010 , Adventures in God

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