by Adoring God | Apr 3, 2018 | Attributes of God, Prayer
When men worship any other person or thing than the one only, living and true God, when they have and serve any other god before or besides the true God; and this is gross idolatry and a breach of the first commandment. When they worship the true God but with false...
by Adoring God | Apr 3, 2018 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Prayer
“Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.” (Psa. 147:5). Christians must adore Christ as a God of infinite power. “Thine is the power,” as the Lord’s Prayer states. Thomas Ridgley said, “Dominion...
by Adoring God | Apr 2, 2018 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ
“He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.” (Eph. 4:10). Christ ascended so that he might dispatch such other things that still remained to be done for us. Now such were his intercession, and...
by Adoring God | Apr 2, 2018 | Attributes of God
“Demetrius has a good testimony from all, and from the truth itself. ” (3 John 1:12). Thomas Manton gave this account of a godly woman who exemplified her faith in walking with God: The duty I owe to the memory of a great sister in Christ obliges me to...
by Adoring God | Apr 2, 2018 | Attributes of God, Prayer
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) We’re in a mess – a mess that carries major implications. For as much as we don’t like to hear it, we are deceivers by nature and have been ever since that dreadful day...
by Adoring God | Mar 29, 2018 | Attributes of God, Godly Meditation, Jesus Christ, Quiet Time
“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms.” (Jam. 5:13). Thomas Ford said, “It is ignorance of a man’s self, and the ways of God, to think any Psalm is unsuitable to any man’s condition, if he is especially...
