Waiting Expectantly
Mankind is called to live by faith in God, in Christ. One aspect of that faith is living daily in the expectation of Christ's coming, and the presence and provision by His Spirit. Living expectantly is a purifying experience of looking unto Jesus for all, waiting for His coming from heaven.
Two Essentials To Know God
God can be known, but only in His way for His glory. Abraham, in his surrender to Christ by faith, embraced two principles at that time, one being the "tent," and the other the "altar." The tent spoke of detachment from the things of this earth, to be attached to Christ. The other, the altar, spoke of a sacrifice, one which would come and be displayed for all to see a great many years after Abraham. Faith in that Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, would allow Abraham to know this God of Redemption and Life.
To The Ends Of The Earth
God's commission to the church, His living body on earth, is to take not only the truth of the Gospel message to the ends of the earth, but to take Him by virtue of His indwelling in the heart and life. The truth must be known, but the perception of the Life of Christ must be believed in. When the truth of Christ is joined by the power of His blessed life, faith will be born in the heart that seeks God, calling upon Him.
Three Essential Awakenings
God works in the heart of believers, and non-believers, to awaken them to spiritual reality, first concerning His Creator and Redeemer, but also concerning his own need to know God. The call of God, accompanied by the corresponding race to respond to the call, is to awake. All things become possible to the individual whose desire it is to truly awake to that which is right, that which is of God.
The Prayer Filled Believer
The man who walks with God is that one who is regular, consistent communion with God. He is a man who has learned to give to God access to the needs that come his way and trust Him to meet those needs. Christ is his life, and from Him the believer will receive that which pertains to life and godliness. This he does by prayer and faith. Prayer is the lifeline of the believer to heaven.
God's Potential In Us
The potential of God is realized in us because of two things, the capacity that He gives us with respect to His calling and gifts, and also according to one's faith in the faithfulness of God. It is one thing to understand the calling of God, and the resources that every believer has in Christ. It is quite another to trust the Father, and the Son, by the Spirit, to fully accomplish through us His perfect will.
Where Are You
When Christ came seeking Adam and Eve after they had disobeyed Him, having obeyed Satan, the Lord Jesus called to them. Before their fall into sin, Adam and Eve looked expectantly for the Lord's coming. Now they were afraid and ashamed. The call of God is to communion with Him, and this only is made possible by the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary's cross to deal with all of our sin.
The Sign of Christ's Coming
Christ's second coming has been ordained by God from before the foundation of the world. Only the Father knows the moment, but God gives to His people, those who seek Him for it, the knowledge of the times in which we live. In that knowledge God places signposts which announce not only that Christ is come, but that His coming in imminent. We are to look expectantly for His appearance.
The Setting Apart Of The Life
When Christ calls an individual to Himself, He does so to set him or her apart from the world and sin so that God can truly and fully bless him. The purpose of this setting apart is to on the one hand to save the believer from worldliness. On the other it is to call him or her apart to know God's blessing in a unique, and effective way. It is a call to separated unto Christ, to know, love, and serve Him.
The Secret Place
God is known in the quietness, and aloneness with Him. It is in that place where distractions are left behind, and one's attention is given to Christ, that He, by His Spirit, revealing Himself by His word, communes with the believer. In that place of aloneness, undistracted prayer can be made, and worship can be accomplished.