The place our Father invites us.
Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple. – Ps. 65:4
I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” – 2 Cor. 6:18
We’re invited to live in God’s courts, and it is here that we are filled with good thing . . . and He said He’d be a Father to us.
This is a great place to be . . . in the courts of our Father to fellowship with Him and receive of Him good things. This is result of our Father, the Son and the work fo the Holy Spirit. Everyday and everywhere we go we can have access to this place . . . it’s the secret place of the most high. But it’s not a secret to us. Its a place for us to go, live and worship Jesus. It’s a place where no harm can come our way as we trust and rest in Him.
Father God, thank you for the invitation. Yes, thank you for the opportunity to live, dwell, and rejoice, worship and be blessed in your courts . . . and most of all, for being a Father to me.
Raised Up With Jesus
“knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus . . . 2 Cor. 4:14)
Today is Easter Sunday – Ressurection Day!
Look at the whole of 2 Cor. 4. Paul starts off by saying that he received mercry, didn’t loose heart, renounced shame and endured hardship . . . and then he says that the the treasure he has is in earthen vessels . . . that the excellence of the pwoer may be of God . . . tha the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.
Paul knew that he was to be raised up with Jesus. Therefore he endured all things so that the power of this ressurection may be experienced now. This was his goal, to experience the life of Jesus today! He received God’s mercy, he renounced shame, he was not crushed, not in despair, not forsaken, not destroyed . . . all so that the life of Christ would live in him today.
There he does not lose heart, but rather the inward man is renewed day by day.
So Father God, this day being Easter Sunday, I pray to not allow the life of your Son to live in me today. And as a result I’ll be able to live like Paul did . . . above it all, so that I can be renewed today . . . and live a ressuretion life today.
Thank you for coming into my life on February 8th, 1976. It seems along time ago, and then just yesterday. I was raised up that day . . . and will never be the same again . . . thank You!