God Is
God is everything we will ever need to live a happy and successful life while we are here on this earth. He is the Light of the world Who came in the fullness of His Love to bring Life to all of us. The very essence of Life is God. His Love is the fiber woven through a good and abundant life. The Light or essence of His Presence has produced all that we know. He is Light. Light is the source of all creation.
There are some very specific scriptures in the Bible that we are going to focus on today regarding Who God is. Let’s look at them through eyes of understanding. Put on your revelation (understanding things of God) glasses. God wants to open your eyes so that you may behold wondrous things from His Word (Psalm 119:18). He wants to reveal Himself to you.
Christ became the author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him. He is the One Who brought salvation to us. We all know that salvation is an all-inclusive word. It includes deliverance for us in every area of our lives----spirit, soul, body, socially, and financially. We have been set free from sin, sickness and disease, poverty, spiritual death, lack, want, fear, doubt, unbelief, etc. We are protected. We are sheltered. We are taken care of. He provides all that we need for a life of success and victory. Thank You, my Lord.
God is the author and giver of peace. When we look at Hebrews 13:20 and 21 we see that God is the author and giver of peace for a reason. His peace or wholeness strengthens us. His wholeness makes us complete, with nothing missing in our lives. His peace perfects or matures us. In His peace is rest. As we rest in Him, He is able to carry out His plan or will for our lives. Our resting in confidence and trust in Him gives Him the opportunity to work in us what pleases Him. He is able to accomplish what He planned before the foundation of the world for us. He has a good plan, and it is accomplished easily in its fullness when we don’t stress out and interfere with His plans because of our hurry to do what we think needs done. Have you noticed that we are always in a hurry to accomplish what God tells us He is going to do? I believe that is the reason He does not always tell us what His plans are. We mess them up with our human desires to get them done quickly. It seems that the motto of the human race (without God) is hurry, hurry, hurry. Hurry produces stress. Stress produces frustration, anxiety, and irritation, which are the opposite of peace. Let’s accept the peace God offers us today, and let Him do His work.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. That is very good news. I don’t know about you, but there are times that I have to rely on that fact. Jesus is the One Who is the source of my faith. He is the living Word Who takes me to the written Word and produces faith in me to live well. I must look away from all that would distract me in this world and look to Jesus as the One who begins my faith and finishes it. Faith is what operates His Kingdom. It is the force that activates God’s blessing for our lives. It is God’s method of providing for us. It is His way of showing us that we don’t have to “work it up” ourselves. He loves to do the work of providing all that we need for life and godliness.
Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession (Hebrews 3:1). If we look up that word “profession,” we find that it is the word for confession. A confession is what we speak in agreement with someone else. Christ is sent to watch over the words we speak. He is the High Priest Who carries them to the Father. I must caution you, however, that He only brings the Words of this Bible to His Father. It is the only Word that is pure and filled with faith. All other word is tainted with the doubt of this earth. We are told in Hebrews 10:23 that we are to hold fast to this profession or confession of our faith without wavering for God is faithful Who promised us that He would perform His Word. One translation says that He Who promised is reliable, sure and faithful to His Word.
Aren’t you glad that we have such a big God? He is the author and finisher of everything we need. In today’s teaching, we have just touched the surface of Who He is. Yes, He is the author and finisher of our faith, our peace, our salvation, and the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. But He is so much more. He is everything.
There are some very specific scriptures in the Bible that we are going to focus on today regarding Who God is. Let’s look at them through eyes of understanding. Put on your revelation (understanding things of God) glasses. God wants to open your eyes so that you may behold wondrous things from His Word (Psalm 119:18). He wants to reveal Himself to you.
Christ became the author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him. He is the One Who brought salvation to us. We all know that salvation is an all-inclusive word. It includes deliverance for us in every area of our lives----spirit, soul, body, socially, and financially. We have been set free from sin, sickness and disease, poverty, spiritual death, lack, want, fear, doubt, unbelief, etc. We are protected. We are sheltered. We are taken care of. He provides all that we need for a life of success and victory. Thank You, my Lord.
God is the author and giver of peace. When we look at Hebrews 13:20 and 21 we see that God is the author and giver of peace for a reason. His peace or wholeness strengthens us. His wholeness makes us complete, with nothing missing in our lives. His peace perfects or matures us. In His peace is rest. As we rest in Him, He is able to carry out His plan or will for our lives. Our resting in confidence and trust in Him gives Him the opportunity to work in us what pleases Him. He is able to accomplish what He planned before the foundation of the world for us. He has a good plan, and it is accomplished easily in its fullness when we don’t stress out and interfere with His plans because of our hurry to do what we think needs done. Have you noticed that we are always in a hurry to accomplish what God tells us He is going to do? I believe that is the reason He does not always tell us what His plans are. We mess them up with our human desires to get them done quickly. It seems that the motto of the human race (without God) is hurry, hurry, hurry. Hurry produces stress. Stress produces frustration, anxiety, and irritation, which are the opposite of peace. Let’s accept the peace God offers us today, and let Him do His work.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. That is very good news. I don’t know about you, but there are times that I have to rely on that fact. Jesus is the One Who is the source of my faith. He is the living Word Who takes me to the written Word and produces faith in me to live well. I must look away from all that would distract me in this world and look to Jesus as the One who begins my faith and finishes it. Faith is what operates His Kingdom. It is the force that activates God’s blessing for our lives. It is God’s method of providing for us. It is His way of showing us that we don’t have to “work it up” ourselves. He loves to do the work of providing all that we need for life and godliness.
Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession (Hebrews 3:1). If we look up that word “profession,” we find that it is the word for confession. A confession is what we speak in agreement with someone else. Christ is sent to watch over the words we speak. He is the High Priest Who carries them to the Father. I must caution you, however, that He only brings the Words of this Bible to His Father. It is the only Word that is pure and filled with faith. All other word is tainted with the doubt of this earth. We are told in Hebrews 10:23 that we are to hold fast to this profession or confession of our faith without wavering for God is faithful Who promised us that He would perform His Word. One translation says that He Who promised is reliable, sure and faithful to His Word.
Aren’t you glad that we have such a big God? He is the author and finisher of everything we need. In today’s teaching, we have just touched the surface of Who He is. Yes, He is the author and finisher of our faith, our peace, our salvation, and the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. But He is so much more. He is everything.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 10:33 AM
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