Danny’s God

Danny’s God.  Simple Child-like faith… Beautiful.

From “Morning and Evening” by C. H. Spurgeon

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.”  – Eph_3:17

Beyond measure it is desirable that we, as believers, should have the person of Jesus constantly before us, to inflame our love towards him, and to increase our knowledge of him. I would to God that my readers were all entered as diligent scholars in Jesus’ college, students of Corpus Christi, or the body of Christ, resolved to attain unto a good degree in the learning of the cross. But to have Jesus ever near, the heart must be full of him, welling up with his love, even to overrunning; hence the apostle prays “that Christ may dwell in your hearts.” See how near he would have Jesus to be! You cannot get a subject closer to you than to have it in the heart itself. “That he may dwell”; not that he may call upon you sometimes, as a casual visitor enters into a house and tarries for a night, but that he may dwell; that Jesus may become the Lord and Tenant of your inmost being, never more to go out.

Observe the words-that he may dwell in your heart, that best room of the house of manhood; not in your thoughts alone, but in your affections; not merely in the mind’s meditations, but in the heart’s emotions. We should pant after love to Christ of a most abiding character, not a love that flames up and then dies out into the darkness of a few embers, but a constant flame, fed by sacred fuel, like the fire upon the altar which never went out. This cannot be accomplished except by faith. Faith must be strong, or love will not be fervent; the root of the flower must be healthy, or we cannot expect the bloom to be sweet. Faith is the lily’s root, and love is the lily’s bloom. Now, reader, Jesus cannot be in your heart’s love except you have a firm hold of him by your heart’s faith; and, therefore, pray that you may always trust Christ in order that you may always love him. If love be cold, be sure that faith is drooping.

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My Prayer to the Father, July 30, 2012

Our Most Gracious Heavenly Father,

I come to You, Father, in humility, in faith

Knowing Father, that I can have confidence

In You.

Understanding and acknowledging that

I have the privilege of coming

Before Your throne

Not because of anything I’ve done

Or will do; but

Because of what Your Son, my beloved Lord

Has done for me.

Heavenly Father,

I look at the world around me.

This world with all it’s evil.

It seems to me the whole world,

And all it’s inhabitants

Are only out for one thing

Themselves,

and it would be too much

If I couldn’t look at Your creation,

And know that You who have

Created all, sustain all as well.

Heavenly Father,

I know that You are above and beyond all.

That You, Father, are from

Everlasting to everlasting;

That You have always been and will always be.

No matter what man may say

Or proclaim

From his little place on this little rock

He lives upon.

You, Father, who in Your

Amazing love and grace

Have allowed a place

For him to dwell.

Heavenly Father,

I thank You, and I’m so indebted to You

For so many reasons, but the greatest of these

Is Your Son, My Lord, my love,

My Savior, For Savior He is

To me, and to all who know

That we can’t save ourselves.

For those of us who know our state

Before You.

Heavenly Father,

I come before You on behalf of  a

People You have called to be Your own,

But who in sinful, selfishness cannot see

Beyond themselves.

Who even standing in the light of

Your truth

Remain blind and ignorant

Not because Your truth is not readily seen

But because in doing so

They see who they really are

And what they truly amount to.

These who call upon Your name;

Who claim Your son

Who call Him Lord; but

Who refuse His call upon their lives, and

Who ignore His commands, and

Who live unto themselves,

And yet proclaim to be

Christian.

Heavenly Father,

I call upon You.  I implore You

To awaken Your people,

Yours who You have claimed,

Who You have set apart

And made Your special possession

And call Your own.

Father, I pray You will awaken them,

That You will show them

That life in You is not within

The confines of our finite bodies

With our petty aches and pains

Our problems and struggles,

But in Your Son Jesus.

Heavenly Father,

How we need You.

We are desperately in need of teachers, leaders

Who can help us to see into eternity.

Who can show us that there is so much more beyond

This present, temporary life

That we think so much of, and

Call our own as if had anything to do

With our being here.

We strive, cry and pursue

For all those things in this temporary world

That are already ours in You

Through Your beautiful Son.

Heavenly Father,

Help us to realize we have all we need in You/

Help us to know and to trust in Your provision,

Help us to be confident in our place and position

Before you

Bought and paid for, secured for us

Through the precious atoning blood

Of Your beloved Son

Of our beloved Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ.

Forgive us our sins, Heavenly Father,

Forgive us for our lack of love

Our lack of diligence

Faith

Trust

Belief.

Grow in us these things

By whatever means necessary

So that we may know their

True worth in Your eternal Kingdom

No matter how old you are – you live

Sometimes something comes along just when you need to see it such as this No matter how old you are – you live (Be sure to watch the video it isn’t long).  I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t believe that there are any such things as accidents.  I think I was meant to see this.  As a matter of fact, I think every single thing and person I meet is by design. While I’m on the subject, I’ll just say this.  I’ve never understood the theory of randomness, never understood how people can believe that there’s order in the universe and on our planet, and yet deny that it’s kept and maintained by someone.  Probably the reason I don’t understand it is because I never got through college, didn’t even get through high school.  All I ever did was read, talk to people older  and wiser than myself, and read my Bible.  Now, I’m not knocking education.  But, I do knock those who try to teach opinion and prejudice over fact.  I knock those who try to pervert truth by making it something that’s inconvenient and a matter of choice and perception over reality and fact.  I knock those who try to take accountability and responsibility out of all institutions and organizations by trying to make people who believe in them seem old-fashioned and out-dated.  And I could go on, but I’ll stop here…..and for those of you who are wondering: Yes, you can be a Christian and still have an opinion, still know the truth, and have the right and authority to speak it.  (Sorry I got wound up)

I just needed to see and know that it’s not too late for me to do something worthwhile with my life and for Christ.  I thank the author of this blog for the video he posted on it.

From “2000 Bible Illustrations” selected by Wayne Augden

     Just a gentle reminder of why it’s important to keep Christ as our focus. 

 

Keep Christ Central in Christmas

 

It is a principle of art that in the composition of a picture, all the parts shall be so arranged as to lead the eye inevitably to the central figure or feature. Whatever prevents this is a capital defect. Accessories are only important as they help this end.

 

When Varelst, the Dutch painter, made his tulips so glorious that they drew attention away from the face of James II, in whose portrait he had placed them, he violated this canon. So did Haydon when, in his picture of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he made the figure of the beast on which the Master rode more attractive than the person of Christ.

 

So does the theologian or the metaphysician or the logician, who fascinates by his argument and rhetoric, or the preacher and liturgist, who stresses his forms of worship and symbols of religion.

 

It is not the swaddling-clothes of ceremonialism, but the Christ of the simple gospel story consistently lived, that shall span the continents with love and make Christmas perpetual in the heart of man.