- By Jeff Evensen
Do all that is in your heart!!
When David expressed his desire to build a house for Yahweh, the prophet Nathan responded: “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you!” (I Chron 17)
Nathan was encouraging, but fell short of God’s perspective and God corrected him that same night.
- By Jeff Evensen
Worship & Prayer are important to the Return of Jesus. From eternity, the Triune God has always governed by agreement. The Father making the plans, the Son speaking out the plans and the Holy Spirit acting upon the plans. We see this in the creation narrative in Genesis 1. We also see this in Psalm 2 when the Father states his plans for His son, and instructs Jesus to ask for what the Father has already promised. The Son then declares what the Father says and the Psalm ends with the admonition by the Holy Spirit to submit to the Son in worship for He is the King.
Read more: The Return of Jesus and the importance of Worship & Prayer
- By Jeff Evensen
Knowing Jesus as the creator. We're told in John 1:1 that all things came into being through him. Nothing was created that he did not create. When he walked on the earth as a man, he actually did things that showed the disciples that he was God, the Creator. Now, in Genesis, when we see Adam being formed, it says he was made from the dust of the Earth. And when I meditate on that, I see Jesus kneeling down in the mud and scooping up the clay and forming Adam's body shaping it like a sculptor does. But more than that, He's forming the organs and he's running the blood vessels and he's forming the cells and everything, intricately designing this body. Well, there's a man who was born deaf in the New Testament and he met Jesus one day and Jesus spit on his fingers and stuck his fingers in his ears, and the man began to hear.
- By Jeff Evensen
Sometimes when God shows us how He works in our lives, we can anchor our perspective or actions or approach in that experience. Actually, it’s not uncommon, and entire doctrines or even church movements have been birthed out this. It can be seen in some formulas that have arisen in the church. I see it most often in prayers. Someone prayed for healing and God answered! So we tend to start searching for and repeating the words or phrases used like they are the magic formula that God responded to before. In the many prayer meetings I’ve sat in, I often hear the same catch phrases repeated (yes, I’ve done the same thing hoping that I’ve got it right). But how is that relationship? Its really no
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