From Jerry: For real transformation to take place, the glory of the Lord must be beheld from the ground where the trouble lies. It can not be done in the abstract. We must behold the glory of the Lord from the midst of the temptation or right after we have failed. We are not to imagine how the transformation will be done. We must only behold the glory of the Lord and we MUST see it.
Me: What is His glory?
Jerry: Reads to me from Revelation 4 and 5.
Me: So what you're saying is worship Him?
Jerry: Thinks a bit then says, "Yes, in a sense. Worship Him even on the ground of failure. Worship is the out working of our faith in that situation."
Dale says: God used worship, primarily, to deliver me from the endless mind games from the enemy.
Also from Dale:
Ro. 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, AND CALLETH
THOSE THINGS WHICH BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE. ~ Abram became Abraham, became
the father of all those who live by faith, and received the long awaited promise
BECAUSE HE ALLOWED GOD TO CALL HIM SOMETHING THAT HAD NOT HAPPENED YET. Even
though it had be...come impossible Abraham still believed what God said would
happen. Are you allowing God to "name" you or do you receive your identity from
your past, your failures and your mistakes? Hypocrisy is to pretend to be
someone you're not, to be accepted and approved of by man. Faith is to believe
you are what God says you are, in spite of your failures and what you see at
times. We grieve and sorrow over our failures, mistakes, and sins but we do not
let them become our identity. And we can begin rejoicing, by faith, in who God
says we are even before we see it fully established in our lives. This pleases
God."
He is worthy of all glory and praise. I have been very much convicted on how little I praise Him and worship Him. I want to behold His glory even in the depths of discouragement.
This is beautiful.
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