Honest Living

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“David might have agreed with the Apostle Paul who, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote, “I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

2 Corinthians 12:9
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Reading the story of David in 1 Samuel I was struck by how normal his life really was.  Indeed, David was a great king in the early history of Israel, and yes, he was a mighty worrier and a great poet but David was really more like you and me than we realise. 

David was the youngest of his family and had a very lonely childhood, spending most of his early years in the countryside caring for his father’s sheep. It was probably here that David experienced God’s presence and power the most. 

One day the prophet Samuel was told by God to find the son of Jesse (David’s father) whom he had chosen to be the next King of Israel. He eventually found David and anointed him as King, though Saul was still on the throne of Israel. Then we read how David killed the giant Goliath, which caused Saul to become jealous. Consequently, David fled into exiles to escape Saul’s intent to kill him. Here we see how, even though he still honoured God, David became a bandit, raiding villages.  Eventually Saul dies and David comes to the throne as a great God-fearing King. 

Indeed, David’s life was dramatic and exciting but he endured many hardships, suffered ups and downs, like you and me, and even backslid at times. We read how he became quite rebellious and even committed adultery. This great prophet, poet and man of God was quite normal in many ways. This is why David’s Psalms are among some of the most honest and frank writings of scripture. Psalm 51 is prime example of David’s honesty. However, as we read some of his writings, we notice that David always kept his heart pure, humble, and submissive toward his Lord. He always honoured God and sought to do his will. This is why we read that the Lord said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.”

David was an honest GodTracker. Like you and me, he led a normal life, thwart with conflicting success and failure but he always was quick to admit his need for God’s grace. David might have agreed with the Apostle Paul who, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote, “I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

God-tracking is living an honest life.

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1 Samuel 16:1-13

1 Samuel 17
Psalm 51

Acts 13:22

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Don’t Give Up, Look Up & Pray

“Help me to live my life honestly and truthfully before you, by your grace.”

“Dear Lord, thank you for the example of the life of King David. I see in him a normal man like me. As David endured headship and rebellion, so do I endure headship and rebellion at times. As David was successful in his work so, by your grace, I enjoy occasional success. Lord, whether up or down, my life is in you. Like Paul, and probably Daivd, I confess, ‘I boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.’ Help me to live my life honestly and truthfully before you, by your grace. Amen.”

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Holy As He is Holy

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“May we not strut about like the insolent man on his fine horse. Rather, may we set our eyes on Jesus, seeking his glory and being holy as he is holy.”

1 Peter 1:15
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct

St. Francis de Sales said, “Some men become proud and insolent because they ride a fine horse, wear a feather in their hat or are dressed in a fine suit of clothes. Who does not see the folly of this? If there be any glory in such things, surely the glory belongs to the horse, the bird and the tailor.” We all strive for the glory of God in our lives. And, indeed, God’s glory is something well worth striving for. However, the key to my experience of God’s glory is not found in my presentation but in his presence and a retreat from my significance.

The manifest glory of God is found in total submission to his holiness. God is holy. The word holy means consecrated, sanctified and unique. God is supremely unique: there is nothing like God – his splendour, righteousness, majesty – in all the universe! When people enter the glory of God, they will experience his holiness. And God’s holiness greatly challenges their fallen state.

The prophet Isaiah experienced the glory of God. He describes it like this: “I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.” (This robe was the glory of God.) “Above him stood the seraphim. And one called to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!’” Then he says the temple shook at the revelation of God’s majesty and the house was filled with smoke. Smoke or clouds are often evidence of the glory of God. Then notice Isaiah’s response: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Do you desire to experience more of God’s glory? I do. Do you have a yearning to come under the influence of his Holy Spirit and dwell in his temple? I do. Do you have a passion to reveal God’s majesty in your life? I do. If this is true then let us admit to our sin and confess it to God, as Isaiah did. Let’s submit to God’s majesty allowing our lips to be touched by the fire of his holiness, drawing near to his throne by the blood of Jesus. May we not strut about like the insolent man on his fine horse. Rather, may we set our eyes on Jesus, seeking his glory and being holy as he is holy.

God-tracking is walking in holiness for his glory

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Isaiah 6:1-8
1 John 1:9
Hebrews 4:16
Hebrews 10:22
Romans 13:14
1 Peter 1:13-21

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

My lips are unclean and I repent, in Jesus’ name. I acknowledge you in all my ways and submit to your will and purposes in my life.

“O Lord God, I worship you in the splendour of your holiness. I surrender to your pleasure and bow to your majesty. You are holy, holy, holy, the Lord who was and is and is to come. I confess my shortfalls and my sins. My lips are unclean and I repent, in Jesus’ name. I acknowledge you in all my ways and submit to your will and purposes in my life. Here I am, Lord, use me. Amen.”

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FEELING THE HEAT OF GOD’S FURNACE

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“Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, ‘As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.’”

1 Peter 16:7
so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I used to work in an office that overlooked a steel mill. Across the property boundary was a rail track where rail carriages would line up to receive the dross that resulted from the iron refining process. I watched as carriage after carriage was filled with the disgusting steaming metallic sludge that was skimmed off the purified iron, which was being refined to produce smooth shiny stainless steel.

The same process is employed to refine gold. Gold is precious. Gold is beautiful. However, most gold jewellery we wear is not pure, it is an alloy mix of gold and other metals. When gold is purified, this mixture is heated to a temperature of between 1,000 and 1,100 degrees Celsius. When the metallic mixture reaches this temperature, it melts. In the furnace, the pure gold sinks to the bottom of the crucible while the impure alloy metals separate and rise to the surface. This is called the dross. The sludge of dross is then skimmed off and discarded, leaving beautiful precious pure 24-carat gold behind in the crucible.

You are precious. You are beautiful. You have deep hidden qualities that God rejoices over. He who is holy has called you to be beautifully holy as he is holy. There is an old song that goes, “Purify my heart, let me be as gold and precious silver. Refiner's fire, my heart's one desire is to be holy.” Only in the heat of God’s furnace can you, and I, be refined to become holy. Only in the heat of God’s furnace will the dross of the old life rise to the surface that it may be skimmed off, revealing beautiful precious qualities of holiness within you.

Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, “As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.”

God-tracking is a refining process

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Zephaniah 3:17
1 Peter 1:15
1 Peter 1:6-7
James 1:2-4

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise up that you may skim it off

“O Lord, I feel like I’m in a fiery furnace today. So much is going wrong. I have so many needs and have called on you for healing, protection and deliverance but it seems you don’t hear me. Yet, I know you do hear me! Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise that you may skim it off. Help me through this trial. Help me to stay strong and endure the heat in faith that you will, indeed, come through for me. Lord, you are faithful. You never abandon me, even in the fiery furnace. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS A RELATIONSHIP NOT A RELIGION

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23 October 2015

Dear God-tracker

GOD-TRACKING IS A RELATIONSHIP NOT A RELIGION

It’s been said that true Christianity is a relationship and not a religion. I think it is bit like marriage. I think I can safely say that I know my wife sufficiently well enough to have a reasonable conversation with her. Because of my relationship with her (which is based upon openness and spontaneity) I don’t need to follow any set of rules or traditions in order to communicate with her or enjoy her company. Karen knows my deepest thoughts and I know hers, because we do not recite routine dialogue by rote. We are intimate and natural with each other. I know that at the end of a long hard day, for instance, I can pour out my heart to my wife and draw strength from her counsel. And though I do my best to make her happy I know that she is little impressed by any effort of mine to win her favour by false good works.

Religion is a striving for God's fellowship through rote rapacious recital, while true faith is worshiping God in Spirit and in truth. Religion is a striving for God's favour through one’s good works, while true faith is coming to God through Christ's good work. As a true follower of Christ I believe that do not have a religion; I have a relationship with God. This relationship begins with repentance and is based not on good works but on faith. As in my marriage I try to please my wife in intimacy so too in my walk with God I try to please him in faith. Faith pleases God. And faith is contrary to good works or rote prayer. Faith is spontaneous, intimate and rewarding.

What a privilege we enjoy as true Believers to come directly to Abba Father through faith in Jesus. What an honour to be able to talk to the Almighty as a man would talk to a friend. What a pleasure it is to spontaneously worship the God of heaven in the beauty of his holiness. Dear God-tracker, let us never, never take this privilege for granted! So, come to Jesus today if you’re feeling heavy burdened with religion and humbly yoke up with him in true intimate relationship.

God-tracking is a relationship not a religion

Keep your eyes on Jesus

Dudley

It’s all in the Book…
Galatians 2:15-16
Hebrews 11:6
John 4:23-24
Psalm 29:2
Matthew 11:27-29

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Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Quote of the Week
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“Christianity is not a religion, Christianity is a supernatural revelation.” --- Kathryn Kuhlman

Don’t Give Up, Look Up!
Look up and Fix Your Eyes on Jesus!

I do love you very much and come to Jesus to relieve me of the burden of religion

Pray
“O Father God I realise now how important it is to simply walk with you by faith like Adam did in Eden. I see now that true Christianity is not a religion based or rote prayer or good works but a relationship based on love and faith. I want to walk with you in the intimacy of this relationship. I repent of my feeble efforts to earn your favour by good works. I want to pray in intimate freedom as I worship you in spirit and truth. Help me, Lord, to base my life upon your word and not human traditions. I do love you very much and come to Jesus to relieve me of the burden of religion. In Jesus’ mane I pray. Amen.”

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