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to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much we can also act as nerve cells on our own behalf let s turn to the example of hezekiah in and look at what moved god to answer his emotive prayer in those days hezekiah was sick and near death and isaiah the prophet the son of amoz went to him and said to him thus says the lord set your house in order for you shall die and not live then hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the lord and said remember now o lord i pray how i have walked before you in truth and with a loyal heart and have done what is good in your sight and hezekiah wept bitterly and the word of the lord came to isaiah saying go and tell hezekiah thus says the lord the god of david your father i have heard your prayer i have seen your tears surely i will add to your days fifteen years is 38 1 5 for one more example let s also look at the book of daniel then i set my face toward the lord god to make request by prayer and supplications with fasting sackcloth and ashes and i prayed to the lord my god and made confession and said o lord great and awesome god who keeps his covenant and mercy with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments we have sinned and committed iniquity we have done wickedly and rebelled even by departing from your precepts and your judgments neither have we heeded your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings and our princes to our fathers and all the people of the land o lord righteousness belongs to you but to us shame of face as it is this day to the men of judah to the inhabitants of jerusalem and all israel those near and those far off in all the countries to which you have driven them because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against you dan 9 3 7 it s evident from the wording here that daniel viewed himself as a small part of a larger body here he was acting as a nerve cell on behalf of both his nation and his church the nation of israel was in ruins divided dysfunctional in captivity in babylon failed by its leaders and daniel was grieved because of that look at the emotion he puts into this prayer now therefore our god hear the prayer of your servant and his supplications and for the lord s sake cause your face to shine on your sanctuary which is desolate o my god incline your ear and hear open your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by your name for we do not present our supplications before you because of our righteous deeds but because of your great mercies o lord hear o lord forgive o lord listen and act do not delay for your own sake my god for your city and your people are called by your name now while i was speaking praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people israel and presenting my supplication before the lord my god for the holy mountain of my god yes while i was speaking in prayer the man gabriel whom i had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly reached me about the time of the evening offering and he informed me and talked with me and said o daniel i have now come forth to give you skill to understand at the beginning of your supplications the command went out and i have come to tell you for you are greatly beloved therefore consider the matter and understand the vision dan 9 17 23 how s that for an answer oh that we could be given the skill to fully understand what s going on in our churches and our nation today and why both are so dysfunctional so whad ya say are you a nerve cell do you see another cell or two or three in the body that need you to send a compassionate message to the brain do you see problems that are causing damage to the body as a whole and you feel the need to convey your alarm about that to the head if you re a messenger one who spends a lot of time in prayer a prayer warrior then you may just be a nerve cell in the body of christ leave a comment our metamorphosis august 3 2015 christianity baptism butterfly calling christianity death eternal life god jesus christ life metamorphosis resurrection dan after missing a post or two because of the death of a close friend i d like to resume a series of posts loosely based on a fine book called in his image by dr paul brand with the whole process of life and death in mind to everything there is a season a time for every purpose under heaven a time to be born and a time to die ecc 3 1 2 ecclesiastes 3 says there is a time for everything including times to be born and to die to help facilitate the divine plan for mankind even the word was required to go through the full life process as a human being for him as well there was a time to be born as the one sent who provided an exact pattern to show us how we can be changed to his image he had a time to live to show us how to live to teach us how to submit to the will of both he and his father there was also for him a time to die and spend 3 days and 3 nights in the grave and then there was a time of resurrection when his physical body was changed into a glorious spirit body again his experience in the flesh taught him everything about what it is to be human he was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin heb 4 15 he also learned obedience by the things which he suffered in the flesh heb 5 8 during his physical life the one sent showed and told us what is expected of us in our physical lives how to relate to our father in heaven how to communicate with him and how to use his example to arrive at real life if we follow this template romans 8 16 19 tells us exactly what the future holds the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of god and if children then heirs heirs of god and joint heirs with christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together for i consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of god rom 8 16 19 when we take the great baptist jesus christ up on his promise to baptize with the holy spirit click here to review the baptism for life posts he plants the earnest of the spirit 2 cor 1 22 within us it s like a little bit of god s own dna and we spend the rest of our lives going through a process of spiritual dna replacement growing little by little from glory to glory in a biblical spiritual metamorphosis from the old man to the new when we then die we become like a chrysalis resting waiting to burst forth into a glorious new life for all of our remaining years after conversion we are like a voracious feeding caterpillar devouring god s word and growing in the grace and knowledge of jesus christ 2 pet 3 18 in our caterpillar stage we should be working out our own salvation with fear and trembling phil 2 12 living as though our actions have eternal consequences studying the word and living it so that when we die and come to that chrysalis stage of life we are sealed with the holy spirit of promise as it says in ephesisans 1 13 and when god seals a promise there is no force in earth or heaven that can stop it precious in the sight of the lord is the death of his saints psa 116 15 this verse from the psalms gives us an assurance about good men and women who live their lives well those in the chrysalis stage awaiting their transformation into a spiritual butterfly are precious to god and so the death of a close friend who has fought the good fight finished the race and kept the faith as paul said he d done in 2 timothy 4 7 serves as an inspiration to re commit ourselves to the real goal of life being re created in god s image leave a comment christ in your image july 13 2015 christianity bible christianity in his image jesus christ sacrifice submission victory dan last week we began a series of posts based on a book by dr paul brand and philip yancey entitled in his image in that post we talked about our ability to properly discern the body of christ when you and i think of the concept of what we are and being transformed into that type of magnificent being from glory to glory there is a disconnect for many of us because we feel so ordinary in the society around us so driven by media hype and adoration of those few beautiful people at the top most of us feel very inferior to those chosen few selected from the gene pool of humanity for fame beauty and fortune yet the entire plan of god for mankind does not focus on that top rung of human society rather the one sent as the representative of the godhead to mankind purposely aimed his entire ministry at the oppressed inferiors of the human realm and not at the rich or famous or powerful or beautiful the spirit of the lord god is upon me because the lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord and the day of vengeance of our god to comfort all who mourn to console those who mourn in zion to give them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of the lord that he may be glorified isa 61 1 3 we might think that that in itself is a magnanimous thing for so great a being to do to invest his time and effort in a ministry aimed at comforting the poor oppressed and depressed dregs of humanity down here but what speaks to us even more loudly than his preaching is that to better serve us he became one of us but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death even the death of the cross phil 2 7 8 so he purposefully divested himself of the very things human beings so earnestly covet fame fortune power glory honor pride and beauty to become an ordinary man since you and i are human and we think of him as a perfect being we can still fall into the trap of thinking that he gave himself some physical advantage as well as the perfection of the spirit we know he had but there is no indication of that in the descriptions we re given for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant a nd as a root out of dry ground he has no form or comeliness a nd when we see him t here is no beauty that we should desire him isa 53 2 the hebrew word for form is to ar h8389 a masculine noun meaning form appearance beauty it refers to the contours and outward form of something the word comeliness is hadar h1926 hadar and it means glory splendor majesty elsewhere it is used to describe the impressive character of god and his magnificent beauty christ s human physical body did not have any of that to attract people to him in fact because he was nothing special physically it was easy for human beings to despise and reject him and he was more fully able to identify with the human condition because of this he knew the sorrow and grief of being ostracized ignored and mocked as unimportant and even ugly people often are he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows vs 4 if you or i could choose any form we wanted to as a human man or woman what would it be well this great being the greatest spiritual man to ever live in a physical body chose to live that life in an ordinary unimpressive body specifically so that he could truly identify with the least of us seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast our confession for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need heb 4 14 16 this being came to earth in a lowly form in our image so that he could identify with the real human condition of you and i the magnificent word the son of god the one sent the king of kings literally chose to walk a mile in your shoes so the he could more intimately know you and serve your needs who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death and was heard because of his godly fear though he was a son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered and having been perfected he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him heb 5 7 9 in every case christ identified with the lowly in life healing the paralytic the blind the demon possessed and the infirm masses in parables he held up lazerus against the rich man and the grief stricken repentant tax collector against the self glorified publican always the least of these are the ones he identifies with as my brethren however unworthy we might consider ourselves and we are all unworthy of him he has made every effort to fully identify with us in the human condition taking physical form in our unimpressive likeness so that we could identify more fully with him and come to believe in the impossible prospect that we ordinary people could really be created in his image leave a comment in his image july 6 2015 christianity baptism bible body of christ christianity churches god greek in his image jesus christ life temple dan i d like to do something in today s blog post that i ve never done before to recommend a book entitled in his image by dr paul brand and philip yancey as a christian i m always seeking a better understanding of my god his christ and the body that they have called me to be a part of in fact discerning the body of christ is critical to our remaining a healthy part of that body as we mature in the faith which was once delivered his body so let s start out in the scriptures with 1 cor 11 23 32 we always read this on the passover and if we re not careful we can stick it back up on the passover shelf until next year and just forget about it read vs 29 for i received from the lord that which i also delivered to you that the lord jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in the same manner he also took the cup after supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord s death till he comes therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the lord but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup for he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself not discerning the lord...