Friday, May 22, 2015
The Lord and the womb.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. - Psalm 71:6
A great reminder that God recognizes us even in our mothers's womb, We have leaned on Him, even when we were in the womb He was protecting and sustaining us. Life begins in the womb, it matters not that laws on this earth fail to recognize life in the womb. God, the Creator of the universe created human life on the sixth day. He knows when and where life begins for each individual. He also knows when our lives end, precious is the blood of His saints. All life is precious to our God, be it life in or outside of the womb.
Even our birth, our survival in the womb and entrance into this world depends on the Lord. He brought us out of the womb, He brings all of us out of the womb, He i the one who extends our lives, everyday we live, we live by His grace.
Praise Him for every day, praise Him for new life, for extending our lives, praise Him, now and always!
Pastor Gary Morrison
Trinity Baptist Church
www.trinityallentown.org
Friday, May 15, 2015
The Lord hears our Prayers!
O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. - Psalm 65:2
Yes God, the Lord the Creator, our Lord Jesus Christ who sits on the right hand of God the Father, it is he who hears all prayer!
Jesus hears, He is not dead and buried, He is alive, He is the Eternal One, the God who hears the cries of His loved ones, He who listens, even when we are alone in darkness, abandoned, deserted, abused, forsaken, forgotten by all, neglected, depressed, even when we are persecuted with impunity to death, Jesus hears our cry. Oh what comfort, though no one responds to our distress, He hears our prayer, our voice, He sees our need, our desperate plight. Truly we come to Him, we draw near to Him in prayer.
I wonder if we truly appreciate what a God-given resource we have at our disposal, I wonder if we realize what privilege we have been given?
"Oh Lord, you see us where we are, you see us as we are, you see beneath the facade, you see our heart, our lostness, our brokenness, you see and you hear!
May your name be praised now and forever more, Amen!"
Draw near to Him in prayer.
May He bless us in the days that lie ahead with a stronger sense of His very real presence with us at all times.
Yes God, the Lord the Creator, our Lord Jesus Christ who sits on the right hand of God the Father, it is he who hears all prayer!
Jesus hears, He is not dead and buried, He is alive, He is the Eternal One, the God who hears the cries of His loved ones, He who listens, even when we are alone in darkness, abandoned, deserted, abused, forsaken, forgotten by all, neglected, depressed, even when we are persecuted with impunity to death, Jesus hears our cry. Oh what comfort, though no one responds to our distress, He hears our prayer, our voice, He sees our need, our desperate plight. Truly we come to Him, we draw near to Him in prayer.
I wonder if we truly appreciate what a God-given resource we have at our disposal, I wonder if we realize what privilege we have been given?
"Oh Lord, you see us where we are, you see us as we are, you see beneath the facade, you see our heart, our lostness, our brokenness, you see and you hear!
May your name be praised now and forever more, Amen!"
Draw near to Him in prayer.
May He bless us in the days that lie ahead with a stronger sense of His very real presence with us at all times.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Waiting
For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. - Psalm 62:1
In God, and in God alone, and in no other, and in nothing else can our souls, our inner most being, that which we are inside ourselves, only in the Lord God alone can our souls commune.
Apart from Christ our inner most being is actually spiritually dead, dead souls are like dead people, and dead people just simply do not communicate at all, they don't communicate, because they cannot, they are dead.
Once the Lord comes and breathes His Holy Spirit over us and on us our souls come to life, and immediately like newborn babies who wait for their mothers, we wait for our heavenly Father!
Our very salvation comes from God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God brings His salvation to us in a more certain way than a mother feeds her newborn baby. God's care for us, his newborn children is more loving and caring than the most loving parent could ever possibly be.
That may be hard to grasp for some, but it is meant as an encouragement, and assurance, a comfort.
We need never fear the Lord and His love for us.
In God, and in God alone, and in no other, and in nothing else can our souls, our inner most being, that which we are inside ourselves, only in the Lord God alone can our souls commune.
Apart from Christ our inner most being is actually spiritually dead, dead souls are like dead people, and dead people just simply do not communicate at all, they don't communicate, because they cannot, they are dead.
Once the Lord comes and breathes His Holy Spirit over us and on us our souls come to life, and immediately like newborn babies who wait for their mothers, we wait for our heavenly Father!
Our very salvation comes from God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God brings His salvation to us in a more certain way than a mother feeds her newborn baby. God's care for us, his newborn children is more loving and caring than the most loving parent could ever possibly be.
That may be hard to grasp for some, but it is meant as an encouragement, and assurance, a comfort.
We need never fear the Lord and His love for us.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Our great refuge!
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1
The Scripture makes very clear to us in this verse, that God, our God, the Lord, the Creator of the universe, he alone is where we find refuge!
Refuge from our guilt, our sin, our inner struggle, our weaknesses, we can flee to him for refuge, for safety for comfort for consolation.
Our God will have compassion on us when we turn to him for help. He will keep us safe, he will keep our souls safe and secure, in him we are all refugees looking to him for sanctuary. We go to him and plead for asylum from the tyranny of our own transgressions.
God gives us all the strength we need, in our weakness he is strong, we have no strength but for him, and him alone, and oh what a Savior, He rescues us when we are in the direst trouble, when we were at our worst, when we are beyond help and hope, he came to help us.
May he be our comfort and our rest,
in Jesus name, Amen!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Where does joy come from?
17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. - Habakkuk 3:17-18
Rejoice in the Lord no matter what your circumstances are, our joy is in Him, not in what we have.
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. - Habakkuk 3:17-18
Rejoice in the Lord no matter what your circumstances are, our joy is in Him, not in what we have.
Our joy is in the Lord and in what he has done for us in Christ Jesus!
Friday, April 10, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The resurrection of Jesus
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Acts 2:24
Hallelujah for the resurrection of Jesus, it was impossible for death to keep Jesus in the grave, to keep him in its grip!
God the Father did the impossible, he raised Jesus to life again, thereby vindicating the perfect righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus life. Jesus who never sinned could not be killed either, he gave up his life! He took our sin upon himself and suffered death in our place, so that we by God's grace could be forgiven!
The resurrection of Jesus forever silences his all his critics, whatever anyone ever says about Jesus that contradicts what Jesus says about himself, must be submitted to the acid test, surely the one resurrected is the one God the Father has accepted as true and faithful. Jesus is the way the truth and the life!
May we all continue to rejoice in the resurrection everyday of the year!
Pastor Gary Morrison
Hallelujah for the resurrection of Jesus, it was impossible for death to keep Jesus in the grave, to keep him in its grip!
God the Father did the impossible, he raised Jesus to life again, thereby vindicating the perfect righteousness and sinlessness of Jesus life. Jesus who never sinned could not be killed either, he gave up his life! He took our sin upon himself and suffered death in our place, so that we by God's grace could be forgiven!
The resurrection of Jesus forever silences his all his critics, whatever anyone ever says about Jesus that contradicts what Jesus says about himself, must be submitted to the acid test, surely the one resurrected is the one God the Father has accepted as true and faithful. Jesus is the way the truth and the life!
May we all continue to rejoice in the resurrection everyday of the year!
Pastor Gary Morrison
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