Hiddenness: Remembering the Blessed Forgotten. God delights in hiding things, such as people, ministries, private places, and even His Word. It is His privilege to conceal matters, and in fact, God’s glory is shown when He keeps certain things hidden. When the Lord conceals things, we honor Him for it and acknowledge His wisdom in …
The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly. “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens. The earth produces the crops on its own. First a leaf blade pushes …
Hiddenness: Finding A Place Apart. “When you pray, go into your private, secret room at home, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:5-6). The need for privacy with God was a common theme in the Hebrew …
Hidden within Christ inside God. “For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden within Christ inside God.” (Colossians 3:3). Living Within Christ: Literally participating in the life of Christ; living in union with Jesus; united as one with God; inseparably joined with Christ; when we started trusting in Jesus, His Holy Spirit hand-delivered each …
The Virtues of Hiddenness. God delights in hiding things, such as people, ministries, private places, and even His Word. It is His privilege to conceal matters, and In fact, God’s glory is shown when He keeps certain things hidden. When the Lord conceals things, we honor Him for it and acknowledge His wisdom in doing …
A PRIMER ON PRO-LIFE MATTERS, from A to Z. “Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds!” (Romans 5:20). “Enough! You’re here to defend the defenseless, to give justice to the weak and fatherless, to maintain the rights of the oppressed and needy. Your job is to rescue the powerless and stand up for them, to …
Shekinah Glory in Every Believer. “God is a living, personal Presence, a living Spirit… There is nothing between us and our God now, our faces shining with the brightness of His face. Our own faces are unveiled and we see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and so we are being transformed …
Shekinah Glory in the Holy Spirit. “To the extent that you share the fellowship of the Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice; so that you will rejoice even more when His Shekinah is revealed. If you are being insulted because you bear the Name of the Messiah, how blessed you are! For the Spirit of Shekinah glory, that …
Shekinah Glory in Jesus Messiah. “Glory To His Name”, Congregational Hymn (youtube.com) “The Word became flesh and lived with us, and we saw His Shekinah, the Shekinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). In keeping with the Shekinah glory resting on the Mercy Seat in the wilderness Tabernacle, and …
Shekinah Glory in the Hebrew Bible. “Bless the Lord, oh my soul! Lord, my God, you are very great; You are clothed with glory and majesty, and You are wrapped in light as with a robe!” (Psalm 104:1-2). GLORY: the biblical meaning of God’s glory tends to emphasize the weighty splendor of God’s personal presence; …
The Prayer Life of Jesus – Entrusting His Spirit to the Father on the Cross. “Tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a righteous man!” (James 5:16). The Lord Jesus always was and still continues to be the ultimate prayer warrior. He prayed to the Father even before He was born (Hebrews 10:5-7), …
The Prayer Life of Jesus – Human Despair on the Cross. “Tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a righteous man!” (James 5:16). The Lord Jesus always was and still continues to be the ultimate prayer warrior. He prayed to the Father even before He was born (Hebrews 10:5-7), and He kept …