“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
On walking with our God in a way in which we listen and hear Him regularly: "He who has ear to hear, let him hear" (Jesus, Matthew 11:15). "Knowing that Jesus is truly Emmanuel, God with us, and learning to hear His voice are vital to becoming spiritually mature. Listening to God - which is …
1 Thessalonians 5:19 " Do not quench the Spirit...." The scriptures are clear in this- we live the Christian life by the Holy Spirit who indwells us. He is our connection to Christ, our channel for the life of Christ in us each day, much like a branch is connected to the vine. How we commune …
1 Thessalonians 5:19 " Do not quench the Spirit...." We live the Christian life by the Holy Spirit who indwells us. He is our connection into Christ, our channel for the life of Christ to flow in and through us each day. How we commune and interact with the Spirit in us is therefore vitally important …
Psalm 37:1-11 "Do not get upset because of evildoers, do not be envious of wrongdoers.For they will wither quickly like the grass, and decay like the green plants.Trust in the Lord and do good; live in the land and cultivate faithfulness.Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart.Commit …
Few writers have grasped and explained the New Covenant life we have in Christ as has A.B. Simpson. This long section from the book, "Wholly Sanctified," is one of the clearest explanations of how we are to live in Christ and how He wants to live in us so that we might become wholly sanctified. …
Oswald Chambers was and is still today one of the great influencers who fully understood the New Covenant life we have in Christ, that it is nothing of our own lives and fully His life lived in us. This requires a deep repentance. This is a repentance not just from specific sins, for choosing when, …
In the previous post, I wrote of our God's larger purposes for us and how when we pray for those as our most urgent priorities our lives will begin to align with His life and will in us. There are many purposes our God has in mind for us, purposes that fit under the three …
How can we pray reliably according to the will of our God? He has given us so many clues in the scriptures that to do so is really not difficult. The big issues of His will for us are found in the purposes for which we were created and redeemed. To pray for them regarding …
If we were honest about the prayers we tend to pray most often, they are prayers that attempt to get out God to alter our temporal circumstances. There are very few of that type of prayer recorded in the scriptures. Prayers in the Bible are primarily focused on the greatness and glory of our God, …
Our modern view of prayer in the religion of the institutional church is very weak and one-dimensional. For so many, prayer is characterized by the following fallacious attitudes and beliefs: Prayer is an event - we "do" prayer, usually at specific times and in specific settings. Over a meal. Before a meeting. For a few …
One Pursuit 