The Ancient Posture of Prayer: A Joyful Response to God Steadfast love Part 4

“What Matter is what we love… for that is what determines the true and final course of our lives.” Quote by lanekwriter in Medium.com

I am in love with the titles that Father Almighty provides, hence “A Joyful Response to God Steadfast love”.- Truly grateful for every single person that surrounds and extends hands with love. Perhaps not everything is perfect in my surrounding, there is a battle every second, it is how we choose to take upon it…it is His hand and power, his power that makes the difference. It does not mean it is easy, yet when you place it in his hands…the love, the balance and joy in the heart is something that  just my Father in Heaven can give. There is no limit for his wonders, much to share and write, much work to be done. However, He is also provides us time for family, a time for stillness so we may enjoy those special moments in which He opens doors to be a proud mother, a blessed mother of two wonderful men and feel so blessed by my Father in Heaven . I have enjoyed some time with my two sons, just their presence makes a difference…when you do not get to see them much.

Special times, it is amazing… obviously in my perspective to be able to see and to do prayers perhaps at times quietly in different places.   I want to take a excerpt from the book “The Knowledge of the Holy.”- by A.W Tozer  and He states “ His Infinitude is the most difficult to grasp.” I can explain a vision, or share a dream or perhaps place a drawing or painting in simplicity, haha I love painting but I definitely would love to go back to my lessons to further develop as my painting have no dimension, however they are done with much love, trying to capture a vision or dream seen. I fell in love with a book received as a gift from A.Tozer from Passion City Church and such a motivational journey of perseverance of Faith from both pillars and such love from Lakewood Church amd Passion City , a book of purpose from Rick Warren, and many other books. Special words from Father Albert Cutie here in my community, and such an image of love from heaven. It took so many years to understand a hidden journey of love and a inner peace that goes beyond my understanding. It did cause a stir and a shake, but everyday is a new learning. It does not mean all is good and perfect, it has its ups and downs, but the difference is the peace and rest and most of all the love you can find in his hands, changes in how one is towards how it was before and how you would react today, learning the science of peace from our Father. It is where the beauty rests all Him.

I apologize for the delay of the writings, but I did want to take advantage of enjoying some time of silence with my family. It is a rough patch for some, and it is amazing How God shows you things in others…I thought in these days about some testimonies and confirmations. Father Almighty speaks, guides, teaches. Recently as I spoke with a friend, we spoke just about everything …I think one of the words was “tolerate”and my recent writing about measuring and judging others and why Father Almighty repeats until we understand the message …what we can put up with and how to deal with a situation. It was interesting because whether it is in marriage, or with a family member or anyone in general. I always will say patience is a virtue, a difficult one, because at time you want to say, answer back, or whatever the situation is. The most interesting thing is we do not really give in to our knees or pray and ask him what is the learning of this situation? Let me tell you, He has an answer for everything. We may not like what the answer is, but there is definitely a learning. He places people in our life, many, many angels some at a distance, some close by, some you know, some you might meet and well those who are silent. Every single person, family, friend, or anyone, animal has a purpose. I learned in this path that He may place and He may take, and some decide to go to provide room to a bigger blessings, even to save your life. This beautiful gift is to be taken advantage…meaning enjoy the most possible, as in the same way the person or the people, some may stay, some may go, some will be to the ends of your days. I will come back to this testimony in my next writing with due letters of love. I wanted to share the following from A.W Tozer 

From the book “The Knowledge of the Holy.”- by A.W Tozer what Father highlighted. Hereby some excerpts from different chapters:

Chapter 8 The Infinitude Of God

Of all that can be thought or said about God, His Infinitude is the most difficult to grasp. Even to try to conceive of it would appear to be self-contradictory, for such conceptualization requires us to undertake something which we know at the outset we can never accomplish. Yet we must try, for the Holy Scriptures teach that God is infinite and, if we accept His other attributes, we must of necessity accept this one too.

From the effort to understand, we must not turn back because the way is difficult and there are no mechanical aids for the ascent. The view is better farther up and the journey is not one for the feet but for the heart. Let us seek, therefore, such “trances of thought and mountings of the mind” as God may be pleased to grant us, knowing that the Lord

often pours eyesight on the blind and whispers to babes and sucklings truths never dreamed of by the wise and prudent. Now the blind must see and the deaf hear. Now we must expect to receive the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places. Infinitude, of course, means limitlessness, and it is obviously impossible for a limited

mind to grasp the Unlimited.

Chapter 12  The Omnipotence of God

In the time of his vision John the Revelator heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings sounding throughout the universe, and what the voice proclaimed was the sovereignty and omnipotence of God: “Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Sovereignty and omnipotence must go together. One cannot exist without the other. To reign, God must have power, and to reign sovereignly, He must have all power. And

that is what omnipotent means, having all power. The word derives from the Latin and is identical in meaning with the more familiar almighty which we have from the Anglo-Saxon. This latter word occurs fifty-six times in our English Bible and is never used of anyone but God. He alone is almighty. God possesses what no creature can: an incomprehensible plenitude of power, a potency that is absolute. This we know by divine revelation, but once known, it is recognized as being in full accord with reason. Grant that God is infinite and selfexistent and we see at

once that He must be all-powerful as well, and reason kneels to worship before the divine omnipotence.

“Power belongeth unto God,” says the psalmist, and Paul the apostle declares that nature itself gives evidence of the eternal power of the Godhead (Rom 1:20). From this knowledge we reason to the omnipotence of God this way: God has power. Since God

is also infinite, whatever He has must be without limit; therefore God has limitless power, He is omnipotent. We see further that God the self- existent Creator is the source of all the power there is, and since a source must be at least equal to anything that emanates from it, God is of necessity equal to all the power there is, and this is to say

again that He is omnipotent.

CHAPTER 18 The Mercy of God

For what right will we have to be there? Did we not by our sins take part in that unholy rebellion which rashly sought to dethrone the glorious King of creation? And did we not in times past walk according to the course of this world, according to the evil prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience? And did we not all at once live in the lusts of our flesh? And were we not by nature the children of wrath, even as others? 

But we who were one time enemies and alienated in our minds through wicked works shall then see God face to face and His name shall be in our foreheads. We who earned banishment shall  enjoy communion; we who deserve the pains of hell shall know the bliss of heaven ayspring

from on high hath visited us. When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, love, and praise.-Joseph Addison

Could our failure to capture the pure joy of mercy consciously experienced be the result of our unbelief or our ignorance, or both?

CHAPTER 17 The Justice of God

Justice embodies the idea of moral equity, and iniquity is the exact opposite; it is in-equity, the absence of equality from human thoughts and acts. Judgment is the application of equity to moral situations and may be favorable or unfavorable according to whether the one under examination has been equitable or in- equitable in heart and conduct.

It is sometimes said, “Justice requires God to do this,” referring to some act we know He will perform. This is an error of thinking as well as of speaking, for it postulates a principle of justice outside of God which compels Him to act in a certain way. Of course there is no such principle. If there were it would be superior to God, for only a superior power can compel obedience. The truth is that there is not and can never be anything outside of  the nature of God which can move Him in the least degree. All God’s reasons come from within His uncreated being. Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been changed. 

Justice, when used of God, is a name we give to the way God is, nothing more; and when God acts justly He is not doing so to conform to an independent criterion, but simply acting like Himself in a given situation. 

Chapter 21  The Holiness of God

Neither the writer nor the reader of these words is qualified to appreciate the holiness of God. Quite literally a new channel must be cut through the desert of our minds to allow the sweet waters of truth that will heal our great sickness to flow in. We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure

and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of.

God’s holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine. Only the Spirit of the Holy One can impart to the human spirit the knowledge of the holy. Yet as electric power flows only through a conductor, so the Spirit flows through

truth and must find same measure of truth in the mind before He can illuminate the eart. Faith wakes at the voice of truth but responds to no other sound. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Theological knowledge is the medium through which the Spirit flows into the human heart, yet there must be humble penitence in the heart before truth can produce faith. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of truth. It is

possible to have same truth in the mind without having the Spirit in the heart, but it is never possible to have the Spirit apart from truth.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard. He is absolutely holy with an infinite, incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is. Because He is holy, His attributes are holy; that is, whatever we think of as belonging to God must be thought of as holy. God is holy and

He has made holiness the moral condition necessary to the health of

His universe. Sin’s temporary presence in the world only accents this. Whatever is holy is healthy; evil is a moral sickness that must end ultimately in death. 

The English word holy deriving from the Anglo-Saxon

halig, hal, meaning, “well, whole.”

Chapter 23  The Open Secret

But the God we must see is not the utilitarian God who is having such a run of popularity today, whose chief claim to men’s attention is His ability to bring them success in their various undertakings and who for that reason is being cajoled and flattered by everyone who wants a favor. The God we must learn to know is the Majesty in the heavens, God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, the only wise 

God, our Saviour. He it is that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in, who bringeth out His starry host by number and calleth them all by name through the greatness of His power, who seeth the works of man as vanity, who putteth no confidence in princes and asks no counsel of kings.Knowledge of such a Being cannot be gained by study alone. It comes by a wisdom the natural man knows nothing of, neither can know, because it is spiritually discerned. To know God is at once the easiest and the most difficult thing in the world. It is easy because the knowledge is not won by hard mental toil, but is something freely given. As sunlight falls free on the open field, so the knowledge of the holy God is a free gift to men who are open to receive it. But this knowledge is difficult because there are conditions to be met and the obstinate nature of fallen man does not take kindly to them.

Thus far we have considered the individual’s personal relation to God, but like the ointment of a man’s right hand, which by its fragrance “betrayeth itself”, any intensified knowledge of God will soon begin to affect those around us in the Christian community. And we must seek purposefully to share our increasing light with the fellow members of

the household of God. This we can best do by keeping the majesty of God in full focus in all our public services. Not only our private prayers should be filled with God, by our witnessing, our singing, our preaching, our writing should center around the Person of our holy, holy

Lord and extol continually the greatness of His dignity and power. There is a glorified .

“Man on the right hand of the Majesty in heaven faithfully representing us there. We are left for a season among men; let us faithfully represent Him here.”

Chapter 13 Divine Transcendence

God is spirit, and to Him magnitude and distance have no meaning. To us they are useful as analogies and illustrations, so God refers to them constantly when speaking down to our limited understanding. The words of God as found in Isaiah, “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” give a distinct impression of altitude,but that is because we who dwell in a world of matter, space, and time tend to think in material terms and can grasp abstract ideas only when they are identified in some way with material things. In its struggle to free itself from the tyranny of the natural world, the human heart must learn to translate upward the language the Spirit uses to instruct us.

It is spirit that gives significance to matter and apart from spirit nothing has any value at last. A little child strays from a party of sightseers and becomes lost on a mountain, and immediately the whole mental perspective of the members of the party is changed. Rapt admiration for the grandeur of nature gives way to acute distress for the lost child. The

group spreads out over the mountainside anxiously calling the child’s name and searching eagerly into every secluded spot where the little one might chance to be hidden.

CHAPTER 11

The Wisdom of God

“But there is hope in all our tears. When the hour of Christ’s triumph arrives, the suffering world will be brought out into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For men of the new creation the golden age is not past but future, and when it is ushered in, a wondering universe will see that God has indeed abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. In the meantime we rest our hope in the only wise God, our Saviour, and wait

with patience the slow development of His benign purposes.

In spite of tears and pain and death we believe that the God who made us all is infinitely wise and good. As Abraham staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving the glory to God, and was fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able to perform, so do we base our hope in God alone and hope against hope till the day breaks. We rest in what God is. I believe that this alone is true

faith. Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

“Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

Tozer – Knowledge of the Holy -43-The testimony of faith is that, no matter how things look in this fallen world, all God’s

acts are wrought in perfect wisdom. The incarnation of the Eternal Son in human flesh was one of God’s mighty deeds, and we may be sure that this awesome deed was done with a perfection possible only to the Infinite.”

CHAPTER 20

The Love of God

“The words “God is love” mean that love is an essential attribute of God. Love is something true of God but it is not God. It expresses the way God is in His unitary being, as do the words holiness, justice, faithfulness and truth. Because God is immutable He always acts like Himself, and because He is a unity He never suspends one of His attributes in order to exercise another.

We do not know, and we may never know, what love is, but we can know how it manifests itself, and that is enough for us here. First we see it showing itself as good will. Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any. This explains the words of the apostle John: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”

It is of the nature of love that it cannot lie quiescent. It is active, creative, and benign. “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were sinners, Christ died for

us.” “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.” So it must be where love is; love must ever give to its own, whatever the cost. The apostles rebuked the young churches sharply because a few of their members had forgotten this and had allowed their love to spend itself in personal enjoyment while their brethren were in need. “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth

up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” So wrote that John who has been known to the centuries as “the Beloved.” The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing, too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men. He loves us all with a mighty love that has no beginning and can have no end.”

CHAPTER 15

The Faithfulness of God

“Upon God’s faithfulness rests our whole hope of future blessedness. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honoured. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Every heart can make its own application of this and draw from it such conclusions as the truth suggests and its own needs bring into focus. The tempted, the anxious, the fearful, the discouraged may all find new hope and good cheer in the knowledge that out Heavenly Father is faithful. He will ever be true to His pledged word. The hard-pressed sons of the covenant may be sure that He will never remove His loving- kindness from them nor suffer His faithfulness to fail.”

CHAPTER 16

The Goodness of God

“By our own attitudes we may determine our reception by Him. Though the kindness of God is an infinite, overflowing fountain of cordiality, God will not force His attention upon us. If we would be welcomed as the Prodigal was, we must come as the Prodigal came; and when we so come, even though the Pharisees and the legalists sulk without,

there will be a feast of welcome within, and music and dancing as the Father takes His child again to His heart. The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid – that is the paradox of faith.”

CHAPTER 3

A Divine Attribute: Something True About God

“The doctrine of the divine unity means not only that there is but one God; it means also

that God is simple, uncomplex, one with Himself. The harmony of His being is the

result not of a perfect balance of parts but of the absence of parts. Between His

attributes no contradiction can exist. He need not suspend one to exercise another, for in

Him all His attributes are one. All of God does all that God does; He does not divide

himself to perform a work, but works in the total unity of His being.

An attribute, then, is a part of God. It is how God is, and as far as the reasoning mind

can go, we may say that it is what God is, though, as I have tried to explain, exactly

what He is He cannot tell us. Of what God is conscious when He is conscious of self,

only He knows. “The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Only to an equal could God communicate the mystery of His Godhead; and to think of God as having an equal is to fall into an intellectual absurdity.

The divine attributes are what we know to be true of God. He does not possess them as qualities; they are how God is as He reveals Himself to His creatures. Love, for

instance, is not something God has and which may grow or diminish or cease to be. His love is the way God is, and when He loves He is simply being Himself. And so with the other attributes.”

“One God! one Majesty! There is no God but Thee!

Unbounded, unextended Unity! Unfathomable Sea!

All life is out of Thee,

and Thy life is Thy blissful Unity.”

Frederick W. Faber

From the Bible:BibleGateway

1 John 2:17 The Message

15-17 Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

Matthew 5:25 New International Version (NIV)

“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Colossians 4:2-4

The Message

Pray for Open Doors

2-4 Pray diligently. Stay alert, with your eyes wide open in gratitude. Don’t forget to pray for us, that God will open doors for telling the mystery of Christ, even while I’m locked up in this jail. Pray that every time I open my mouth I’ll be able to make Christ plain as day to them.

Reference 

Knowledge Of The Holy

by A.W. Tozer

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