GOD'S PROVISION FOR FELLOWSHIPPING WITH HIM.
Good morning steemians, yesterday morning we talked about FELLOWSHIPPING WITH GOD, today we shall be discussing His provision for our communion/fellowship with Him. Before I set the ball rolling, I would like to appreciate the master minder of this platform @sirknight for His efforts introducing the gospel on Steemit.
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We shall be taking our text from 2corithians 6:14.
2 Corinthians 6
[14]Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? To commune or fellowship with God you have to do away with the things of this world and persons that can stand as obstacle between you an God, as such, unbelievers.
HOW DO WE COMMUNE WITH HIM.
1.) He has given us the access.
Hebrews 4
[16]Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. He has given us the freedom to move closer to Him all by ourselves. In the old testament only the priest enters the Holies of Holies but now it is opened to us all. 2.) The first thing God has provided for us to work and meet His will is His word.
Hebrews 4
[12]For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
John 1
[1]IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Isa. 9:6.]. Galatians 4:6-7, Romans 4:5.
3.) He has also provided the spirit that helps us know the mind of God.
Romans 8:15-16
[15]For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
[16]The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.
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4.)He has also given us His Name as a means of communing/fellowshiping with Him. John 16:23-26
[23]And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me [you will need to ask Me no questions]. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].
[24]Up to this time you have not asked a [single] thing in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.
[25]I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings); the hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly (without reserve).
[26]At that time you will ask (pray) in My Name; and I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf [for it will be unnecessary]. There are various means He has provided for us through which we can commune with Him.
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WHAT AMONGST THE ABOVE DO YOU COMMUNE WITH GOD WITH? He is ever willing and ready to accept us, draw nigh to Him and He will dwell in you