Last time we were together, we looked at
the nature of the Father as viewed through
the nature of Jesus.
We went into those Old Testament passages where
God revealed himself, tied his glory, which is
the essence of his being, and his name,
which is the essence of his being, together,
revealed himself in Exodus 34, especially verse 6,
as the compassionate and gracious one who is
slow to anger, who abounds in mercy, abounds
in faithfulness, extends mercy to thousands, forgives wickedness,
forgives rebellion, forgives sin, and we discovered that
this punishment is for those who hate him.
We discovered in Deuteronomy some rather joyous passages
for those of us who follow him, some
disturbing ones for those who don't, actually.
But the beautiful thing is, this that we
see here is for those of us who
follow him.
It's too good, isn't it?
It's just too good.
But that's the way God is.
He's just too good.
It's like one of my little grandsons, the
youngest of my grandsons, his mother was telling
me yesterday when he was holding his plate
out for some food, and she said, how
much you want?
He says, too much.
And I look at the nature of the
Father, and he says, how much do you
want?
And I say, too much, because that's precisely
what it is.
Now, tonight, we need to bring this into
the New Testament, tie it all together, so
you can see how beautifully Jesus fulfills this
nature of the Father.
Now, I didn't mention last time we were
together, but I will in this particular session,
that this is also the core of Yahweh's
style, my newest book, whereas some of our
other sessions were the core of the Jesus
style.
When you go to the first chapter of
John, you hear the Scripture telling us some
glorious things about Jesus.
In John 1.14, it says, and the
Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory, the glory as
of the only begotten of the Father, full
of grace and truth.
Now, we see some clues already, don't we?
But we keep reading in verse 16, and
of His fullness, in other words, of all
that He is here, we have all received,
and grace for grace.
In other words, we've received grace after grace
from Him, or blessing after blessing, because, this
is verse 17, for the law came, or
was given by Moses, but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ.
So, Jesus takes this that you see, wraps
skin around it, and becomes the complete revelation
of God.
Paul makes that rather clear when he is
describing Jesus, and says, in Him was the
fullness of the Godhead bodily.
God put, in other words, everything He was
in Jesus, this that the Father was, He
takes and wraps skin around it, so that
we can touch Him.
Ah, what an awesome thing.
But, now that we know, and we talked
quite a bit about what it meant for
this to be the definition of His name,
but I want us to see where it
is also incredibly used as the definition of
His glory.
Go with me, to 2nd Corinthians chapter 3,
beginning with verse 7.
Even as I read this, you will catch
the connections.
It'll be almost unnecessary for me to explain.
That doesn't mean I won't explain, but it'll
almost be unnecessary.
Begins this way, in 2nd Corinthians chapter 3,
verse 7.
But, if the ministry of death was written
and engraved on stones, or written and engraved
on stones, was glorious, so that the children
of Israel could not look steadily at the
face of Moses because of the glory of
His countenance, which glory was passing away?
In other words, it was fading away, this
glory that we saw on His face.
How will the ministry of the Spirit not
be more glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory,
the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in
glory.
For even what was made glorious had no
glory in this respect because of the glory
that excels.
In other words, no glory in comparison with
this excellent or excelling glory.
For if what is passing away was glorious,
what remains is much more glorious.
Wah!
That's not there, it just ought to be.
Every once in a while when I'm reading,
I can't help it, it's like, wah!
Verse 12, therefore, since we have such a
hope, now what is that hope?
That we have a greater glory, or an
excelling glory, which doesn't fade away.
We use great boldness of speech, we're bold
people, unlike Moses.
In other words, we are not like Moses,
and those are key words, who put a
veil over His face so that the children
of Israel could not look steadily at the
end of what was passing away.
Isn't that sad?
Moses was fading away.
It's sad to see that.
I can see him as he comes down
from that mountain, the people are all excited,
they see him there.
Look at that, that's our leader, man, he's
been with God.
Look at his face, Moses, Moses, Moses.
No chance.
The next day they get together, there he
is, our leader, man, he's been with God.
Look at his face, it's a little dimmer
than yesterday, but it's still pretty good.
Moses, Moses.
Third day they get together, there he is,
man, our leader, the man with the dimming
face.
Now can you hear, can you hear the
rumors beginning?
I wonder what's happening to Moses.
He seems to be fading, wouldn't you think?
Now I don't know what might be going
on, but I have some ideas.
Can you hear the rumors beginning?
But remember, it says we are not like
Moses, unlike Moses.
Those are key words.
He was fading away, but we'll see what's
happening to us.
But their minds were blinded, for until this
day the same veil remains unlifted in the
reading of the Old Testament, because the veil
is taken away in Christ.
But even to this day when Moses is
read, a their heart.
Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the
veil is taken away.
Now the next two verses that I'm going
to read, I plead with you to commit
them to memory.
They're two of the most awesome verses in
the New Testament.
I think you'll see why.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty or freedom.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as
in a mirror, the glory of the Lord
are being transformed into the same image.
Now folks, notice this is passive.
It's happening to us.
I'm not doing it, God is doing it.
We are being transformed into His likeness, into
that image.
Such a deal from glory to glory.
Do you see this?
We're going from glory to glory, just as
by the Spirit of the Lord.
It is He who is doing this.
Let me explain.
Some time ago I was part of a
group of ministers in the LA basin who
would meet about every six weeks, men of
all different denominations.
One time when we got together and had
said our hellos, one of the men, a
dear brother whom I loved, began to weep.
He said, fellas, is there anything you can
do to help me?
He says, I've had a problem in my
life for ten years, and it's still there.
He says, I thought I had done all
the right things, prayed all the right prayers,
but it's still here.
Is there anything you can do for me?
And even as he spoke, we all nodded
our identification with him.
When he finished, for some reason or other,
they all turned and looked at me.
Erwin?
Yeah?
How do you deal with this?
I said, well, fellas, I'll just have to
be honest with you.
I've discovered that I'm powerless to change myself.
I try, and I can't.
It's like my problems are a cage of
wild dogs back there, and if I decide
I'm going to tackle that one, just that
decision is like throwing beefsteak to him to
make him strong for the fight.
It's like if I decide that I'm going
to deal with my weight, the whole world
turns into food.
I said, the only thing I have discovered
is this verse.
I keep the veil pulled, and he shines
his glory down on me.
I expose myself to him.
Here I am, God, I need you.
And he shines his glory.
He doesn't say, I was waiting on this,
Erwin.
No.
But he shines his glory down on me,
and I find myself being changed into his
likeness.
I said, I like it.
I don't get much credit, but I like
it.
Let me explain it another way.
I have a weakness, and I hesitate to
tell you this, but I think you'll be
gentle with me.
Chocolate-covered raisins.
Now, I know you're in shock, but sometimes
when my wife sends me to the grocery
store for milk, I get the card, and
I know where the milk is.
I've been there before.
I can see it even.
But there's something about that cart that pulls
me down an aisle I didn't need to
go down, and when I get to where
those delicious things are, I say to them,
I don't need you.
I've got you conquered.
That's why I came down this aisle.
I just wanted you to see how conquered
you are.
So there.
And I go, and I get the milk,
and I put it in the basket.
That's a straight shot to the checkout counter.
I've been there before.
I can see it.
I know where it is.
But there's something about that cart.
Pulls me back down that aisle I didn't
need to go down, and when I get
to where those delicious things are, I look
at them, and I say, I don't need
you.
I have got you conquered.
In fact, that's why I came back down
this aisle.
I just wanted you to see how conquered
you are.
So there.
In fact, I'm going to show you how
conquered you are.
I'm going to buy you and not eat
you.
Well, I get home, and my wife says,
what's this?
I say, don't worry.
I know what I'm doing.
I sit, and I look at them, and
I say, see, I've got you conquered, man.
I don't need you.
That's why I bought you and brought you
home.
I just wanted you to see how conquered
you are.
In fact, I'm going to show you how
conquered you are.
I'm going to open you and only eat
one.
Well, when I finish the package, I'm sick.
I hate myself.
The next three trips to the grocery store,
I don't even go down that aisle.
And then on the fourth trip, does this
sound familiar?
Is there any hope for me?
Not in myself, only in Him.
I have to say, here I am, God,
right now.
I need you.
Here I am.
And you keep yourself exposed.
Don't wait until next service.
Don't wait until next week.
Don't wait until next year.
Don't hope there's a mighty move of God
somewhere yet.
But right now, here I am, God.
And He shines His glory down on me.
And I find myself being changed into His
likeness, His image, with ever-increasing glory.
I love that.
From glory to glory.
The beautiful thing about that, well, it's a
little embarrassing.
I was so arrogant.
I'm pretty good now, but I was really
arrogant once.
I thought that by the time I was
30 years old, I'd pretty much have life
conquered.
I'd be about as holy as they come.
But you see, now that I'm 31, you
see, the problem with being older is the
older you get, the more you know yourself.
And the more you know yourself, the more
you want mercy.
And God says, I've arranged for it.
And I've arranged for it in greater amounts,
Gail, because I knew you'd need it.
Now can you see why I want you
to see it?
I want you to memorize this and what
His glory does for us.
Well, there's another revelation just down the road
here.
Stay where you are, but go down to
the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians and the
sixth verse.
Listen to this.
A revelation from last week.
If you recall, God said to Moses, He
said, I will cover you with my hand
and let you only see my back.
So to me, this represents the back.
But now let's see what happens in the
sixth verse of 2 Corinthians 4.
For it is the God who commanded light
to shine out of darkness, who has shown
in our hearts to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ.
No more back.
Now we see Him face to face.
Wait a minute, that'll kill you, won't it?
Well someone had to die so we could
see Him face to face.
This is awesome.
Oh, let me back up just a bit,
too, because this veil also has some very
symbolic meaning for us.
You're all acquainted with the veil that hung
between the holy place and the holy of
holies where the mercy seat was.
The ark covered by the mercy seat.
That a high priest could only go in
once a year and when he went in,
he had better be sinless or he would
die.
So that made being priest just a little
edgy.
And so what they would do is they
would, you know this story, they would sew
bells around the bottom of his robe and
they would listen as he went in to
see and if it were me, they would
have been probably shaking.
And if they quit shaking, oh man, he's
dead.
Someone go get him.
Not me.
So they would attach a rope to his
leg and play it out as he went
in and if the bells quit, oh man,
he's dead and they'd pull him out.
But that veil was an awesome separation between
God and man until Jesus.
And when Jesus hung on that cross, there
was this cosmic lightning bolt from heaven that
must have struck the top of that thing.
It was split from top to bottom, not
bottom to top.
That would be man's doing, but top to
bottom, God's doing.
And suddenly everyone was in the same room
with the mercy seat.
Wait a minute, that'll kill you, won't it?
Well somebody had to die so that we
could be in the mercy seat area.
And there we are.
And that's why we can now come boldly
before the throne of grace and it's speaking
specifically of that mercy seat to find grace
to help in time of need.
Now I'm telling you this because recently I've
heard some teaching and I understand where they're
going with it and I appreciate where they're
going with it, but there's just one problem
with it.
It's some teaching on worship that says what
we need to do is to design worship
around the Old Testament temple so that we
begin with a certain kind of song out
here in this outer court and then we
sing another kind of more intimate song in
this next court until finally we come to
the holy place and there we sing a
certain kind of song that now will open
the veil so we can go into the
holiest place.
Folks, that's sewing the veil back up.
That's what they did after this veil was
ripped.
They sewed it back up.
How sad.
And when I hear people trying to sew
it back up today my heart breaks.
When I'm in sessions where people think that
that's the way you have to approach the
Lord, I feel sorry for them because on
the first song I'm in the mercy seat
area.
They are too, they just don't know it.
They've got their backs turned toward it coming
in this direction I think.
So don't sew the veil back up.
Don't sew it back up.
We're there.
Let us come boldly, frankly, before the throne
of grace.
The law came by Moses, grace and truth
by Jesus Christ.
Well, then we have an interesting thing happening.
We're not quite through because we've got an
unresolved problem and Jesus, I'm going to quote
something from him and it'll add some tension
to our session.
You recall this set of letters here, Y
-H-W-H, pronounced approximately, which they've
lost centuries ago and so they replaced it
in the Old Testament with the capitalized word
Lord and it's a replacement word, not actually
a translation word at all, just simply a
replacement word.
It's a fairly recent word that we have
been using or Jewish people might say Hashim
or the name and now Jesus comes along
and he says, in essence, from now on
guys, you can ask in my name and
I'll do it.
Wait a minute.
God says this is the name he's chosen
to be known by from generation to generation
or from now on.
What is Jesus up to?
Is he trying to do an end run
around God?
Is he trying to pull a fast one?
And he says, hey fellas, you can use
my name from now on.
Well, what is he trying to do?
Fasten your seat belts.
You're aware by now, of course, that his
name was not actually Jesus.
That's the way we kind of squeeze it
through the Greek.
His name was actually Joshua.
Well, it wasn't actually Joshua.
That's the way we anglicize his name.
So we really can sort of put a
line through those.
His name was actually Yahshua or a modern
Orthodox Jew would probably say Yahshua because he's
kind of afraid to even attempt to speak
the name, which means YHWH saves.
So he has restored his name to us
in the Old Testament.
And Jesus.
Can I prove that?
Elementary, my dear Watson.
In John, Jesus says before Abraham was, I
am.
He was doing two forbidden things there.
First of all, he was even speaking the
name.
It was forbidden to do that.
And second, he was ascribing it to himself.
That's why they took up stones to stone
him there.
Another interesting place in the second chapter of
John, as Jesus begins to pray and what
we call a high priestly prayer to the
father relative to his own who are following
him, he prays an amazing thing.
He says, as he speaks to the father,
verse six, I have manifested your name or
made known your name to the man whom
you have given me.
Verse 12, while I was with them in
the world, I kept them in your name,
or as one translation puts it, I have
made your name known to them, the name
you gave me.
And his name was given by the father.
So Jesus not only fulfills it, but he
was named after the father that resolves our
problem.
YHWH saves.
Awesome.
So he wasn't trying to do an end
run around God.
In fact, this unlocks some other things for
me that I dearly love.
When Jesus was coming into Jerusalem on that
day we call Palm Sunday, what was the
crowd shouting at him?
You remember?
Hosanna.
You know what Hosanna means?
Literally YHWH save now.
The answer was riding on the donkey.
YHWH saves.
Hosanna.
Yahshua.
Hosanna.
Yahshua.
YHWH save now.
YHWH saves.
And then they said, blessed is he that
comes in the name of the Lord.
Awesome.
This resolves some things about my praying.
Jesus says, ask in my name.
Now, when I was growing up, no, no,
no, I've never grown up.
When I was young.
I always thought those words in the name
of Jesus were magic words.
You put them on the end of every
prayer and it made it valid.
Made it work.
Didn't matter what you prayed.
You could pray, kill him Lord, in the
name of Jesus.
And if you forgot it, it meant you
ruined the whole prayer.
But that's not the way it works.
Here, let me explain.
Suppose that I were to say, well, I'm
going to steal this sound system because Kay
told me to do it.
You say, get out of here.
She wouldn't tell you to do that.
Well, that's the point.
If I'm going to do something in her
name, I have to do it the way
she would do it or else it's not
in her name.
And if I'm going to do something in
the name of Jesus, it doesn't mean just
using the word.
It means I've got to do it the
way he would do it or it's not
in his name even if I use his
name.
Can I prove that?
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Matthew chapter 7, you've all read this.
Jesus speaks of those who would say, but
haven't we done many mighty works in your
name, cast out demons in your name?
And yet he would say, depart from me,
you workers of iniquity.
I never knew you.
You mean you can do things in his
name and it's still not be in his
name.
That's exactly what he is saying.
One of my favorite chapters, it has some
hilarious things in it is Acts chapter 19.
You'll, you'll discover if you read it right.
It's hilarious.
There are the seven sons of Siva, sort
of the psychic wonders of their day.
Remember them?
They, along with some others who had been
doing some rather remarkable things, see Paul doing
things they had never seen before.
And I can see them as they watch
him closely to discover, how does he do
this?
And then they hear it.
Aha, he has a formula in the name
of Jesus.
That's it.
Okay, guys, we've got it.
We have the formula.
Now, can you see these seven men, the
seven sons of Siva?
And they're all going to test it out.
And so they get themselves a demon possessed
man.
And can you see these seven men lined
up now?
Okay, fellows, we got it?
Remember?
In the name of Jesus, right?
Okay, okay.
Ready, guys?
Okay.
Demon, we tell you or adjure you in
the name of Jesus.
In case you don't know which one it
is, it's the one Paul preaches, okay?
Come out.
What happened?
Well, he didn't exactly come out.
Well, maybe he did, but just far enough
to beat the tar out of these seven
men.
And they went running away, screaming, and naked
and bleeding.
But they used the name.
But you see, they didn't do it in
his name.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
So if I'm going to pray in his
name, then my prayer must be a compassionate
and gracious one, slow to anger, abounding in
mercy, abounding in faithfulness, extending mercy to thousands,
forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin.
Or it is not in his name, even
if I use his name.
It resolves some other areas of the Scripture
for me.
You've heard and read where two or three
are gathered in my name.
There I am in the midst of them.
Have you ever been in a place that
had his name over the door, but you
just couldn't seem to find him inside?
Did it ever bother you?
It has bothered me.
Until I understood this.
Just because I put a name over my
door, his name over my door, doesn't mean
that I have met in his name.
Not until I meet around compassion, grace, slow
to anger, abounding in mercy and faithfulness, mercy
to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin, then
I have met in his name and he
is there.
Just calling myself this doesn't do it, but
meeting in his name.
Now I understood and had a resolution to
an old baptismal formula problem that exists in
some areas of the church.
There are those who in dwelling on Acts
2.38 where Peter instructs them to repent
and be baptized in the name of Jesus
for the remission of their sins and they
would receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Dwell on that and say, aha, that means
that you're to be baptized in Jesus' name
only.
And those people will take Jesus' admonition to
baptize in the name of the Father and
of the Son and the Holy Spirit and
say, well, the name of the Father is
Jesus, the name of the Son is Jesus,
and the name of the Holy Spirit is
Jesus.
I think they missed the point.
You see, first of all, if I'm being
baptized in the name of the Father, what
am I being baptized into?
Compassion, grace, slow to anger, abounding mercy, abounding
faithfulness, mercy to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and
sin.
If I'm being baptized in the name of
Jesus, what am I being baptized into?
Into compassion and grace and longsuffering and to
mercy and faithfulness and to mercy to thousands
and to forgiveness of wickedness, rebellion, and sin.
If I'm being baptized in the name of
the Spirit, what am I being baptized into?
I'm being baptized into compassion and grace and
longsuffering and abounding mercy and faithfulness, mercy to
thousands, the forgiveness of wickedness, rebellion, and sin.
And I say, now where's the problem?
It just doesn't exist anymore.
Another area that I began finally to understand.
Jesus, in response to a request of the
apostles, taught them how to pray.
He said, here's the way you're to pray.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy name.
Oh, suddenly I saw it.
Yes, here he describes his name and when
I honor him, oh, I do this, I
begin to say to him, I want to
honor your name and I honor you because
you are the compassionate.
When I honor you because you are the
one of grace and you are so longsuffering
and I talk to him and honor him
for being this and tell him how he
is as I view it in my life,
I honor him because he abounds in faithfulness
in my life and extends mercy to thousands
to thousands generation and oh, the forgiveness he
has given me.
I'm overwhelmed by it and I honor him
for it.
Now, there is some teaching I have heard
that, and I think the guy's on to
something when he's talking about the Lord's Prayer,
but he misses this entirely and he just
goes to the Jehovah-Desh, Jireh, Nisi and
Rophi and so forth and that's okay except
that most of those names God did not
assign to himself.
This is his specific assignment to himself and
though they are good, most of them are
just our reaction to him.
That would sort of be his acts whereas
this is his ways.
And when you know this, then you know
how he's going to act pretty much.
So when I march through this, by the
time I get down to the bottom of
this forgiveness passage, I am just raring to
go.
I'm ready to pray the next part of
that prayer that says, thy kingdom come.
That's a very personal thing that says I
want you to dominate me.
I want you to be king in my
life.
And when you know this is what he's
like, you definitely want him to dominate your
life.
And when you know this and you've said
that, you're ready for the next part.
Thy will be done on earth as it
is done in heaven.
Now I can pray much better because I
know what his nature is like.
I have a better idea of what his
will would be like and I can pray
accordingly.
This unlocks another passage, a couple of other
passages.
James reveals to us, he says you have
not because you ask not.
He says you ask and don't have because
you ask amiss that you may consume it
upon your own lust.
You see, God has no stake in a
prayer that violates his very nature that just
says gimme gimme, I want, I want.
But he does have a stake in a
prayer that fulfills this.
And then in 1 John 5 about verse
14, 15, 16 right in there says this
is the confidence we have in him that
if we ask anything according to his will,
he will hear us.
And we know that if he hears us,
we have the petition we desire of him.
It changed everything for me.
I can see now what God was up
to.
The more I know him, the more I
understand him, the more powerful prayer becomes.
I am praying in keeping with who he
is.
It's no longer a wrestling match with me
and God, but it is cooperating with his
plan because I know his nature.
And then you end that prayer with this
glorious statement for thine is the kingdom and
the power and the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
Now I understood better why that Philippians passage
that we studied much earlier in our series
in Philippians chapter 2 verses 9 through 11.
Therefore God has raised him up or exalted
him and given him the name that is
above every.
At whose?
Every knee shall bow in heaven and earth
and under the earth and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
of God the Father.
You know, I fall in love with Jesus
over and over.
I really do.
It's overwhelming to me.
He helped me see the Father in ways
that I so enjoy.
I think, oh Lord, this is too much.
This is too much.
This is knowledge that people would kill to
get.
It's so good just to know you, just
to see you, just to touch you.
And to know that you are not divided.
You're very unified.
And what you are in the Old Testament,
you are in the New Testament also.
Well, I saw a few other things.
I'll just read you a few scriptures here
that I think speak well of his name
in Colossians 3.12. Paul tells us to
put on bowels of, and you know that
they didn't mean bowels like we know bowels
today.
It meant to just sort of surround yourself
with or clothe yourself with, although, you know,
come to think of it, maybe he was
saying this is something that you need to
do regularly.
But he says in a sense to put
on or to clothe yourself with, and you
go down that list, it starts with compassion.
And you discover that in essence what he's
doing is saying clothe yourself with the very
nature of God.
And then in verse 17 we hear him
saying this, and whatever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of
the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the
Father through him.
Hebrews chapter 6, verse 10 says, For God
is not unjust to forget your work and
labor of love which you've shown toward his
name, in that you have ministered to the
saints and do minister.
In 1 John 3.23, and this is
his commandment, that we should believe on the
name of his Son Jesus Christ and love
one another as he gave us commandment.
Revelation 2.13, and of course this is
just pulling out this one little passage because
there was a problem at this church.
He says, I know your works and where
you dwell, where Satan's throne is, and you
hold fast to my name and did not
deny my faith even in the days in
which Antipas was my faithful martyr who was
killed among you where Satan dwells.
Now I understand better why it says, there's
no other name given under heaven among men
whereby we might be saved.
My heart cries out, blessed be the name
of the Lord.
Oh, oh, got to tell you this, got
to tell you this.
You're certainly aware of what the mark of
the beast is, right?
You're also aware that it is a name,
and that's interesting, a name.
And it's to go in rather symbolic places
on the forehead or the back of the
hand, very symbolic.
The forehead, representative of your highest powers, your
ability to judge, to think clearly and make
decisions.
The hand, the symbol of strength, the ability
to make a living.
That's why they would pray, if I forget
thee, Jerusalem, may my hand be cut off.
Serious prayer.
Now without it, you would not be able
to buy and sell or to get and
gain.
It sort of has to do with greed
almost.
Sometimes I think we have some forms of
it already.
But Revelations also tells us that there will
be a day when he will place his,
the Lord's name, in our forehead, and we
will see his face.
That thrills me.
Then with his name in my forehead, I'll
have to think maybe I won't even be
able to be something other than this, where
now I have to sometimes struggle to be
this.
Then it would be automatic.
What a glorious expectation.
With John, my heart cries out, hurry up,
Lord.
Come quickly.
And in the meantime, blessed be the name
of the Lord.
If you haven't yet taken his name on
you, now's a good time to do it.
Prayer rooms are open for you, where those
who love you will be delighted to pray
with you and for you and introduce you
to the one whose name is above all
names.
No one else in the whole world can
do this for you.
God said he wouldn't share his glory with
any flesh.
Your spouse is not wired to be this.
Your job is not wired to be this.
Your money is not wired to be this.
Only God can provide this for you.
So don't try to turn to anyone but
him.
Don't seek anything but him.
Don't seek it anywhere else.
Why prolong your agony when he waits with
such joys?
He longs to place his name on you.
Oh, blessed be his name.
Father, you're so good.
Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
Your ways are higher than our ways.
Your ways are beyond finding out to us
mortal men unless you reveal them to us,
and you've done it.
You've done it in Jesus.
Thank you.
And with a very delighted heart, I say
to you, I'll gladly follow him.
I'll gladly live for him.
And as you enable and strengthen us, we
will do all in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving glory to you through him.
Amen.
God bless you.
Thank you.