Crossing Jordan
The Red Sea and the Jordan River are two landmarks of history, specifically concerning the revealed glory of God. On the one hand at the Red Sea, Israel as a people, was delivered or saved from the tyrant, Pharaoh. At the Jordan River, the people were saved unto a new beginning, a new life, a new land where the promises of God would be revealed and accomplished. There was to be no looking back at Egypt, only looking forward to the Christ of the Promised Land.
Breaking Through By Faith
There are times when, because of opposition or difficulty, prayer and faith are essential to break through to see the realization of the will of God. There are also times of spiritual resistance when the enemy's grip on a situation or people is impossible to overcome unless the Lord deals with the spiritual authorities in place. All becomes possible when the believer knows the will of God and takes his position by the Spirit in the name of Christ, claiming the power of the blood of Christ. The enemy will yield when the power of Christ is brought to bear upon him.
The Magnificence Of God
God cannot be put in a bottle. And the heavens cannot contain Him. How then is mortal man to know Him, to love and serve Him? How is sinful man to have peace with this Holy God, perfect and true in all of His attributes and ways? The peace comes only because of the shed blood of Christ on Calvary. The magnificence of God is revealed in that He comes to the lost soul, offers to cleanse him from all sin, and give him a new life by the Spirit of Christ. This is truly wonderful and extraordinary.
The Effective Power Of God
When does God answer prayer, even the cry of the heart? He does so when the soul is brought to the end of itself and its resources, in order to embrace God's ways and truth. God blesses always according to the truth that is in Christ. He will never fail to respond to the cry of the heart of the one who truly seeks Him, willing to follow Christ and live for Him. This is the great certainty, even the faithfulness of God.
The Crucified Life
It is one thing to have faith in God; it is quite another to embrace the work of Christ as one's own. When Christ died, the believer died in Him to all that is not of God, past, present, or future. It is an embracing of the cross upon the old life outside, and separated from Christ, to embrace all that is OF Christ. Christ becomes the life of the believer, not only in truth, but by the power of the Spirit. All becomes possible by faith in Christ according to the truth of the Scriptures.
The Anointing Of The Believer
Essential to the faith of the believer in Christ is the truth of one's anointing by the Spirit. This anointing is not only given to prove, and to seal the believer in Christ, but to provide the means by which all in Christ becomes accessible to the believer, that he should live a living faith in Christ, ever receiving all from Him to live victoriously for His glory.
Reconciling Man With God
What does it mean to reconcile man with God? It means first that every obstacle must be removed between God and man which would hinder or defy such a reconciliation. If peace with God is to be realized and known between man and God, then all of man's sins must be forgiven, a perfect righteousness must be given him, and a new life, or power by the Spirit must be received. Only by God, in Jesus' name, by the Spirit of God can one be truly reconciled with God, and made a new creation in Christ. This is peace indeed.
Daily First Things In The Disciple's Life
In Scripture, God deals with first things, those things which must be faithfully grasped and held onto by faith. Those things are not only truths, but practices, disciplines by which the believer is able to receive the things of God, and this to know not only about Him, but to know the very power of the resurrection of Christ in the life. The very first thing is worship, then service, out of love for God, by the Spirit of God. All things become possible when fellowship with God is maintained as that essential to glorify God.
The Soul's Freedom
Freedom has its true and everlasting meaning in the finished work of Christ on Calvary, and the power of the Spirit poured out upon all flesh on the day of Pentecost soon after Christ's going to be with the Father. Jesus' words, "It is finished," was the declaration of the independence of the soul, the ripped veil in the temple the physical proof of access to God. The power of the Spirit in the heart of the individual would make freedom a reality in the life, for God's glory.
The Salvation That Is Ours
Salvation, that blessed act and eternal work of believing in Christ as the sole Savior of men, the only source of forgiveness of sins, and the giver of eternal life, is a wondrous, irrevocable gift. Once the soul is saved, placed in living union with Christ, there it will remain forever. This blessed work is to have its increasing effect in the life, where Christ is formed and revealed. Christ is us, the hope and certainty, of glory for He is eternal, and the believer is in Him.