This evening the cold air invades North
Carolina and as we gather for our first corporate prayer encounter of 2015 the
cold air will be evident – and I pray that as we gather, God will invade our
presence as we pray. Here is a short primer for our time together this evening! Written by Oswald Chambers:
May your whole spirit, soul, and body be
preserved blameless…
“Your whole spirit….” The great, mysterious work of the
Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach.
Read Psalm
139.
The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings,
the God of the late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the
sea. But, my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early
mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any
mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. You who are the God of all these, be my God. I
cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot
discover, dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me.”
Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought
processes far beyond where we can go? “…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son
cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).
If this verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy
on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even
conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the
heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the
light”.
The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will
feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God
with the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and
body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus-no longer
condemned in God’s sight.
We should more frequently allow our minds to meditate on
these great, massive truths of God.
Join us this evening at 6:30 meeting in the Fireside Room!
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