A Look at the Book #460

A Look at the Book #460

by Jesse Abel

Daily Devotional – A Look at the Book #460

A Thought for today by Papa “J”

The fly that bites is quick to escape the slapping hand. Another bite and another slap and the fly lives to bite again. Time and patience will avenge the diligent. God is perfectly diligent; He will avenge His Righteousness over any ungodly nation. Jeremiah 5:26-29

A DAY IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE

Which way do you bend your Bible if you read it? Do you take it literally, mystically or spiritually? Do you say that there is no such thing as a dispensation or an age of grace? Well in this; it would simply be better to not read your Bible at all. It is true; God does not live in time. But this does not mean that God does not KNOW time. God knows the very end of things from the very beginning of time, thus He knows times and seasons better than you know your own name. Isaiah 46:8-13 and Matthew 16:1-4. You who say that God has given up on Israel; how do you remain confident that God has not given up on you? God did not reject Israel forever; if you believe this then you may as well remove all of the epistles of Paul from your Bible, who along with the other apostles agree, Romans 11:1-36. What then; has Matthew 6:9-13 have to do with all this? God looks on the heart and He knows all the secrets of it. His reward is not in the repetitions of rote misunderstandings of His Word. His reward is for those who know that He has our needs available even before we ask Him, so God is time sensitive over the long haul of a dispensation, a season or even your small moment in time. We need to know that He is Holy, a rewarding Father and that His kingdom is coming again. That He will sit on the Throne of David and reign literally for one thousand years and that He even now meets all needs, heals all wounds and forgives all sin. This should not come as a shock to you; Jesus; at the proper TIME paid it all! (Get the picture) The Lord’s Prayer is complete in Jesus Christ. Come now; you who say that Jesus was put to death, I say that He was brought to the point of death and that He willingly gave up His life for you and for me because the TIME was completed. John 19:28-30. Death then could not have a permanent hold on Him because He is the Creator of Time. 1 Corinthians 15:56-58. It is God who controls time, not man. I could go on; but I must stop.

James 5

James 5:16 – Once in a church recently I was teaching on the principle of sin and I confessed to the congregation of some of the sins of my past as an unbeliever. A person who was recently saved at the end of the service said to me. How did I have the strength to confess my sin before the public as I did? He went on to comment that he knew his sins were forgiven but that he could never publicly tell others the things he had done as an unbeliever. Here is the condition: Do we view our sins from the human view of guilt, or the forgiven view of God the Holy Spirit? We can help each other in this healing process of guilt, but it requires the fervent prayer of the righteous saint. Are you the righteous saint that God might use to heal someone of guilt? If so;

James 5:17 – You will be for that person; God’s Elijah, and filled with the Spirit, who with a nature like the one experiencing the guilt will see that earnest prayer (true communication with God) will produce the Living rain on a dry and dusty soul smothered in the drought of guilt.

James 5:18 – Notice the endurance of the righteous person who prays; he or she may need to pray again like Elijah who literally prayed for rain and experienced the result of harvesting fruit in the earth. God’s will is for each of His saints to endure the work of the ministry. This patient endurance is always rewarded in strengthening the faith of the one who endures and also produces the maturing faith of someone in need. Therefore; be steadfast, unmovable and always abounding in the work of the LORD; knowing that you labor is not in vain in the LORD. 1 Corinthians 15:58.