BIBLE STUDY 26.08.2014 ALIVE TO GOD: Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me! - Life is a series of valleys and mountains. - But the God of the mountains is still the God in the valleys. - Just because we are passing through a valley does not mean were abandoned. - Even in the darkest valley, HE is with you! STREAMS IN THE DESERT: The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ (Job 28:14) I remember a summer in which I said, “It is the ocean I need,” and I went to the ocean; but it seemed to say, “It is not in me!” The ocean did not do for me what I thought it would. Then I said, “The mountains will rest me,” and I went to the mountains, and when I awoke in the morning there stood the grand mountain that I had wanted so much to see; but it said, “It is not in me!” It did not satisfy. Ah! I needed the ocean of His love, and the high mountains of His truth within. It was wisdom that the “depths” said they did not contain, and that could not be compared with jewels or gold or precious stones. Christ is wisdom and our deepest need. Our restlessness within can only be met by the revelation of His eternal friendship and love for us. —Margaret Bottome .. You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You may gather around him a chorus of the choicest birds; you may give him a perch on the goodliest pine; you may charge winged messengers to bring him choicest dainties; but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lofty wings, and with his eye on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away to his own ancestral halls amid the munition of rocks and the wild music of tempest and waterfall. The soul of man, in its eagle soarings, will rest with nothing short of the Rock of Ages. Its ancestral halls are the halls of Heaven. Its munitions of rocks are the attributes of God. The sweep of its majestic flight is Eternity! “Lord, THOU hast been our dwelling place in all generations.” —Macduff … TIME ON THE MOUNTAIN: And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:13-14 John 14:14 the Lord says; ‘If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.’ Verse 15 goes on to say ; ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments.’ I believe God will give you anything within His will. When you say; ‘Lord, heal my body so that I can be a breadwinner for my family. Lord, save my prodigal son, bring him home to me. Lord, this farm has no water, my cattle are dying, please, Lord.’ Those are the kind of things the Lord expects you to ask of Him, it’s not even for yourself, it’s for the other people. ‘From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but could not be hidden. For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.” Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed’ (Mark 7:24-30). Here is a lady who was not even a Believer, she was not even a Christian but she had faith and she said; ‘Lord, please.’ She asked God to do something for her. Up until that time He was called only to the Jews, to the house of Israel. She persisted and He said okay I will do it and He healed her daughter. Why is it that we don’t ask God for things, we assume that the Lord knows our needs? No, the Lord wants you to ask Him. Zechariah 2:1-13 NIV Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.” While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it. And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord , ‘and I will be its glory within.’ “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord , “for I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,” declares the Lord . “Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!” For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye— I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me. “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord . “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. Be still before the Lord , all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.” SONG FOR TODAY: Third Day - Mountain Of God https://youtube/watch?v=yd9VEgsM2G4&feature=youtube_gdata_player SPEAKER’S NOTE: ‘Why is it that we don’t ask God for things, we assume that the Lord knows our needs? No, the Lord wants you to ask Him.’
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