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On Facebook this week one of my friends posed a question. Do we pray at meal time? I must confess that is a hard question for me to always answer in the affirmative. While I can make excuses such as I am eating smaller meals more frequently or something silly like that, I had to seriously confront myself with the question do I even do it three times a day, or even once a day. Often the answer is sadly a resounding no. While there are many cares and worries we must confront daily, when we really think about how many are really that pressing that they must keep us from pray? Doesn’t God promise to take care of our cares and provide for us if we simply cast our cares upon Him!

Sadly it is so easy to take our eyes off of Jesus and look to this world for our sustenance, and even when we do not find it in this world we tend to in our sinful state look to this world all the more concerning the lack thereof, and often just end up angry and tired. When all along Jesus is standing there saying to us ‘am I not enough’? How we so often persist in searching after the things of this world that will only fade, instead of pursuing the things of eternal value. This week let us take just 15 minutes out of our days 5 minutes per meal or at three appointed times and pray, whether out loud or in silence.

Certainly, praying out loud is not an easy thing to do, but it seems to take more courage to do it. I do not think in a restaurant or something is a time for that real deep and personal prayer, which we would do in private, but it would seem it is a good time for a public prayer. So maybe doing it out loud is an act of faith and testimony in and of itself. Of course we ought never do it to show how holy we are, but only to show how holy Christ is.

“One thing that might help you is to understand that the purposes of public prayer are a bit different from those of private prayer. In private prayer, we pour our heart out to God and tell Him all. We do not need to be concerned about sentence structure or form in any way. Just talk to God. However, in public prayer, we are leading (as we speak of someone “leading in prayer”); we are leading others to look on God. We are directing the attention of others to the Lord and helping them rely on Him at this time. Again, the sin of Matthew 6:6 was to make a public display of private prayer. It is not dealing with the proper use of public prayer (though public prayer can be misused as a display too).” (http://www.learnthebible.org/public-prayer.html)

The other thing is it seems like when you are able to do it you tend to take it for granted and want to less or have to work at it all the more (i.e. the seed that fell among the thorns), but when you are told you can’t then you want to even more like it is a challenge or something. Now they are starting to tell people more they can’t in any setting with government money, even though they are ok with that moment of silence. It seems like in some of those situations we need to speak up more, who cares if we offend some atheist, Hindu or whatever (and yet for some reason we do feel self conscious about it, even though in our mind we know this it is so easy to feel the wrong way). As it is you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time time: http://radio.foxnews.com/2010/05/10/elderly-told-not-to-pray-before-meals/#axzz0pI4nA7sa

Geneva Study Bible
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his {e} windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

(e) Because he would not by his silence show that he consented to this wicked decree, he set open his windows toward Jerusalem when he prayed: both to stir up himself with the remembrance of God’s promises to his people, when they should pray toward that temple, and also that others might see that he would neither consent in heart nor deed for these few days to anything that was contrary to God’s glory.

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

6:6-10 To forbid prayer for thirty days, is, for so long, to rob God of all the tribute he has from man, and to rob man of all the comfort he has in God. Does not every man’s heart direct him, when in want or distress, to call upon God? We could not live a day without God; and can men live thirty days without prayer? Yet it is to be feared that those who, without any decree forbidding them, present no hearty, serious petitions to God for more than thirty days together, are far more numerous than those who serve him continually, with humble, thankful hearts. Persecuting laws are always made on false pretences; but it does not become Christians to make bitter complaints, or to indulge in revilings. It is good to have hours for prayer. Daniel prayed openly and avowedly; and though a man of vast business, he did not think that would excuse him from daily exercises of devotion. How inexcusable are those who have but little to do in the world, yet will not do thus much for their souls! In trying times we must take heed, lest, under pretence of discretion, we are guilty of cowardice in the cause of God. All who throw away their souls, as those certainly do that live without prayer, even if it be to save their lives, at the end will be found to be fools. Nor did Daniel only pray, and not give thanks, cutting off some part of the service to make the time of danger shorter; but he performed the whole. In a word, the duty of prayer is founded upon the sufficiency of God as an almighty Creator and Redeemer, and upon our wants as sinful creatures. To Christ we must turn our eyes. Thither let the Christian look, thither let him pray, in this land of his captivity.

Additional links:

http://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-before-meals.html

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jun/17/it_important_pray_meals/?living

http://bible.cc/daniel/6-10.htm

Yesterday, I was working to setup a GPS unit and subsequently this thought came to me. Interesting how we know we need guidance from above. We look to the skies and to the GPS satellites up there to guide us in our journeys today. However, do we ever look yet a little higher; do we look up to the third heaven, or the abode of God, and seek His guidance on a regular basics.

We will not the third heaven with our sophisticated satellites or telescopes, God has chosen to veil heaven from us for the time, however we can rest assure it is there. He veils it not to deceive us, but because He wants true follows that will seek Him in spirit and in truth who will walk by faith and not by sight (John 4:24, 2 Cor 5:7). Think of it in the sense of those Karate or Jedi movies, where the hero is blindfolded in order to train him to use his other senses. What more, for those all the doubting Thomases out there He has given us a visual right in His name.

As a little aside turn on the History Channel someday and listen to how all these educated individuals can unashamedly and with a straight face speak of aliens and extra terrestrials, UFOs (unidentified flying objects), USOs (unidentified submersed objects), and what have you, proclaiming with such certainty that they exist and are more intelligent than ourselves. Even one of the most respected scientist of our day Steve Hawkins recently jumped on the alien bang wagon and was featured on a recent Larry King episode discussing aliens. Our culture is absolutely enamored with them, look at one of the best movies of all time Stars Wars, ET, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, etc.

More to the point, God has said that he has this knowledge that we are looking for, and it is not some hidden or Gnostic knowledge as with the now infamously Gnostic gospels, such as the purported gospel of Judas. It is a real saving and guiding knowledge for our lives and it is communicated cleared to us through His revealed Word in the Bible. We can see this truth clearly spelled out in Isaiah 55:9 where God tells us “For as the heavens are higher than earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

It is so incredible how we can look to skies and know we have received knowledge from a power greater than ourselves, but yet refuse to acknowledge the name of God. We are fine with saying there are many ways, but when we go back to the Bible and say well that doesn’t line up, and there is only one name. Acts 4:12 “Neither is their salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The name is mentioned just a couple of verses earlier as Jesus Christ. The name Jesus means: “Jehovah is salvation”. Jehovah is the revealed name Moses received at the burning bush, and the name simply means something along the lines of I am that I am, I am He who is, or the great I am; also some others have translated it to mean He Brings Into Existence Whatever Exists. Basically, like most people God does not like to be labeled, categorized, or pigeonholed.

So, these names are not anything difficult, they are just names for the ultimate power and authority, and these names are consistently identified as the name for God within the Judeo-Christian heritage. However, one of the even more incredible things about the name Yahweh (Hebrew) or Jehovah (Anglicized Greek) is it leads us right back to the cross and Jesus.

Hebrew didn’t have vowels so, it would be YHWH in the English; also some would contend it should be IEUE, but the discrepancies our largely over technicalities. Pronouncing His name correctly is not as important as understanding and believing He is the Creator of the Universe, and the God of the Bible and of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, David, etc, who has sent His son to the cross in order to save us. Many Jews would not even pronuce His name out of sheer refeverence, so sometimes just being still and knowing that He is God is best (Psalms 46:10).

This excerpt below shows interestingly how just reading the name of Jehovah in the original Hebrew pictograph leads us stright back to the cross. It is from the blog of Peter Lopez, however I have also heard others such as Joseph Prince give the illustration before.

“The Hebrew letters that make up the name Yahweh are YOD, pictured in the ancient Hebrew pictographs as an arm from the fist to the elbow, meaning my hand or works; HEY, pictured as a man standing with outstretched arms, meaning behold or God’s grace; VAV, pictured as a tent peg or nail, meaning a nail, peg or bound; and YOD, again, the arm from the fist to the elbow, meaning my hand or works.

There it is, so obvious, yet not. A man standing with outstretched arms, they seem to be held out right in front of us, showing us the HAND and the NAIL or nail hole, and saying, “‘Reach here with your finger and see MY HANDS…and do not be unbelieving, but be believing,‘ and see My gift of GRACE.””
Here is the visual (remember, Hebrew is read right to left):

YHWH

On my ride home today I thought of a true story which illustrates the Love of Jesus perfectly. The story takes place in my home. Due to do the hard times a number of us are living within the same household including myself, my parents, and my 4 year old nephew and his family.

This story occurred just the other day. My nephew had been helping his grandmother with the holiday preparations and decorations. There were many holiday toys and displays he could play with; however when it came to the manger his grandmother set it up and instructed Him not to touch it because it was fragile and for decoration only. This was intended as a solely static decoration for Christmas. However, the display was not to remain static for long; my nephew was overcome with a curiosity and an overwhelming desire to play with it, despite being given a basic instruction not to touch the manger or the pieces. However, in his attempt to reach for it he caused the baby Jesus to fall and it broke upon impact. The piece was subsequently glued back together by his grandmother (i.e. grandparent or more simply parent), and made as good as new for all intensive purposes.


As I said, this story entered my mind during my drive home this morning and I really I got to thinking about what a wonderful picture of God’s Love this paints. We, because of our inability to follow a simple instruction not to eat of a certain tree in the Garden of Eden caused ourselves to become sinful and broken. Providentially, there was a plan for restoration, but it meant Jesus had to be broken instead. Jesus would be broken due to our sins! Yet, because He was without guilt, He was then able to be exalted by His Father (i.e. parent) and did not have to remain broken. The only requirement on our part is that we submit to Him and accept His sacrifice as full payment. He was broken, because of our sin, so we did not have to be.

Why should we give of our first fruits to God; after all God is in need of nothing? To answer this question I must compare it to a situation more understandable. If you were to meet a king of this world or the president would you provide him with your leftovers and use the your cheapest plates and silverware, or would you bring out your nicest things for the king. Although, you may never be able to present a truly worthy gift, you would at least what to give back your best. Likewise the concept of giving of our first fruits is a token acknowledgement to the great gift that God has given us, His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. As Jesus Christ, the first fruits of the dead was offered up by God for us (1 Corinthians 15:20) we offer up our first fruits. This includes our time, money, and resources. During the time of Mosses God consecrated the tribe of Levi onto Himself in exchange for sparing all the firstborns of Israel during Passover. Although, we are no longer under the law, but under grace this does not mean we should not give of our first fruits any longer.

In fact the practice of giving of our first fruits was not established under the law, but prior to the Law. It was established in a covenant with father Abraham, and practiced by him not under the law which had not yet been given, but under the Abrahamic covenant, which was given unconditionally. Abraham willingly brought Isaac up to be sacrificed, as a indication of his commitment and a token acknowledge to God or kind of foreshadowing of what must be done in order to fulfill the convent. Abraham was graciously not required to make this sacrifice, but God would have been perfectly justified to take Isaac, a miracle baby just like Jesus Christ. Also Abraham established a precedent for giving a tithe when he gave a tenth to Melkisedek (From Hebrew melki “king” and sedek “justice”) who was both a priest and a king (Genesis 14:18-20).

Essentially, giving of our first fruits is not something we do purely out of convent obligation, but it is a privilege to be able to give back to God a small portion of what he has given to us. Accordingly, missionaries and churches should not appeal for support because God needs you help, but rather because He has given you the great privilege and opportunity to help in supporting His kingdom. This is also why churches should not be actively seeking for unbelievers to provide offerings. In fact it should be made perfectly clear that God does not want monetary commitment until He has your absolute commitment of mind, body, and soul. Without a commitment of your entire self to Christ, monetary offerings are meaningless, and undesirable to God. This is why when the rich young ruler asked of Jesus what he must do to receive eternal life, Jesus instructed him to sell all he had and give to the poor before he coming to follow Jesus. Jesus doesn’t just want us to dedicate a portion of our money and time He wants a full commitment of all we are and all we have. For some this may require giving up everything, for others who are not materialist you may not need to go sell all you have, so long as you have the acknowledge that it is all God’s and are yield it all to Him. However, if you do have a lot you will likely be tested in this area by God to ensure you are willing to give it all, as Abraham was tested. Notice especially how Jesus did not ask the rich young rulers to give all He had directly to Jesus; rather He asked him to give it to the poor. The rich young ruler indicated to Jesus that he had already obtained perfection on his own; so Jesus presented him with his first test and he failed.

1. All to Jesus I surrender;
all to him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust him,
in his presence daily live.
Refrain:
I surrender all, I surrender all,
all to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

2. All to Jesus I surrender;
humbly at his feet I bow,
worldly pleasures all forsaken;
take me, Jesus, take me now.
(Refrain)

3. All to Jesus I surrender;
make me, Savior, wholly thine;
fill me with thy love and power;
truly know that thou art mine.
(Refrain)

4. All to Jesus I surrender;
Lord, I give myself to thee;
fill me with thy love and power;
let thy blessing fall on me.
(Refrain)

5. All to Jesus I surrender;
now I feel the sacred flame.
O the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory, to his name!
(Refrain)

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He argued <strong> first</strong> that all things are in motion, therefore someone had to set these things in motion. Everything that is moved is moved by something; some outside force and that outside force that set all things in motion to begin with is God. </p> <p>This leads into the <strong> second</strong> proof that of cause and effect, since we all experience a chain of causes and no cause of itself is an efficient cause, because it would of have to exist before itself in order to cause itself. Someone had to start this chain of cause and effect, namely God. Because removing the cause removes the effect we have a chain which would go back infinitely and never reach a first cause, there would therefore be no resultant effect without someone to cause that first cause. </p> <p>The <strong> third</strong> addresses another law of science, the law of conservation of matter; matter can neither be created or destroyed. In this proof he argues that within nature things may or may not exist, and therefore are either in non-existence or existence. Now these things cannot possibly exist eternally, and will eventually cease to exist at some point, and eventually nothing would exist if they were accidents they would not continue, but would cease to exist. Again we go back to a similar notion life comes from life or things come into being through something that already existed, and nothing comes out of nothing, so there must be an eternally existing Being out of which existing things come, because nothing can exist out of its own nature. Hence, there must be a Being that is in of itself the ultimate cause of existence out of which all other things come, namely God. </p> <p>The <strong>fourth</strong> proof has to do with varying degrees of goodness. In things there are greater and lesser degrees of goodness, truth, nobility and so on. All of these things are approaching some standard or form of ultimate goodness, truth nobility and pure perfection. In light of these varying degrees of goodness in all things there must exist a standard of goodness or the greatest being out of which all these things come. As in the case of fire which is the greatest heat and is therefore the source of all heat.</p> <blockquote><p>Bk. II. 2. What moreover is the greatest in its way, in another way is the cause of all things of its own kind (or genus); thus fire, which is the greatest heat, is the cause of all heat, as is said in the same book (cf. Plato and Aristotle). Therefore there exists something that is the cause of the existence of all things and of the goodness and of every perfection whatsoever&#8212;and this we call God. </p></blockquote> <p>Now the last proof or <strong>fifth</strong> is that of order, since all things have an ordering about them or else they would lack reason, there must be a being that gives all things order or plans all things. As all well know when we fail to plan something we fail at it; we do not succeed by mere chance. So all things must of have there plan established, especially those thing without a mind or intelligence, must of been given a plan or order about them to. One example I know of this is that of the golden ratio 1.168 which is found in many natural things, this design ratio must have been put there by a designer or planner.</p> <script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Thechrist?i=http://www.thechrist.us/2006/03/21/thomas-aquinas-proofs-for-god/" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> <br /> <div class="feedback"> <div class="meta">Posted under <a href="http://www.thechrist.us/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> | <a href="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/03/21/thomas-aquinas-proofs-for-god/#comments" title="Comment on Thomas Aquinas proofs for God">7 Comments</a></div> </div> <div class="sep"></div> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/03/21/thomas-aquinas-proofs-for-god/" dc:identifier="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/03/21/thomas-aquinas-proofs-for-god/" dc:title="Thomas Aquinas proofs for God" trackback:ping="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/03/21/thomas-aquinas-proofs-for-god/trackback/" /> </rdf:RDF> --> </div> <div class="post"> <h2 class="storytitle" id="post-2"><a href="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/" rel="bookmark">The answer to that void in your life</a></h2> <div class="date">Published on Sunday, February 26th, 2006</div> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Are you experiencing a void in your life? Well if so you have come to the right place. The void in your life does not mean there is something unusual about you. Many people have recognized this void and had tried to fill it with various things like education, job, money, spouse, etc. However none of these things will fill that void in your life; nothing but Jesus Christ can fill that void. Even once Jesus has filled that void we may still at times when we are not close living to Jesus and for this life we may experience that void again as a reminder that this world is not our home. If today you are experiencing that void, ask Jesus Christ to come into your life as Lord and savior, and to fill that void. He has promised us that if we shall repent our sins and confess Him as Lord we shall be saved. So again if you are experiencing that void ask Jesus into your life; today, for the Bible says: today is the day of salvation.</p> <script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/Thechrist?i=http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> <br /> <div class="feedback"> <div class="meta">Posted under <a href="http://www.thechrist.us/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Uncategorized" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> | <a href="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/#comments" title="Comment on The answer to that void in your life">25 Comments</a></div> </div> <div class="sep"></div> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/" dc:identifier="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/" dc:title="The answer to that void in your life" trackback:ping="http://www.thechrist.us/2006/02/26/the-answer-to-that-void-in-your-life/trackback/" /> </rdf:RDF> --> </div> <div class="post"> <h2 class="storytitle" id="post-1"><a href="http://www.thechrist.us/2005/11/19/welcome/" rel="bookmark">Weclome</a></h2> <div class="date">Published on Saturday, November 19th, 2005</div> <div class="storycontent"> <p>Welcome to TheChrist.us. This site has been created with the intention of leading people to Jesus Christ, hence the name &#8220;TheChrist&#8221;. Jesus was and is and will be the Christ forever more. He died and tasted death thereby winning, the victory over death. He died for me and He died for you. If you believe that, and ask Him to be Lord of your life you will and confess you sins to Him. 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