Deepening Our Relationship With God_TBRC04/05/2008 A.D.
In this edition of Teachingbible Radio, Pastor Landis Fisher was teaching a New Years message of how to make the coming year more effective for Christ. Learning to grow from our mistakes and through true spiritual practices like prayer, meditation on God’s Word, and gut honesty about our true condition in the sight of a Holy God are just a few nuggets of truth in this lesson! The entire message is available for download in our ministry archives for free!
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 90:1 – 17 (KJV)
Psa 90:1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psa 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psa 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psa 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psa 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psa 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psa 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psa 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Psa 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psa 90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psa 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Psa 90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Psa 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
New Testament Scripture Reading: James 1:5 – 8 (KJV)
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
#1) Those who are saved have been blessed with the gift of proper self evaluation and therefore are guaranteed to succeed in all that God has spoken in His holy Word if they consume it and apply it diligently. #2) Each one desiring to have a better relationship with the living God, must make a proper assessment of where they are in their walk and a high priority commitment to advance with no more compromise, knowing full well that our three enemies will pursue even more aggressively the more that we do.
#3) We are ultimately responsible for the distance between us and God in that He desires a closeness at all times that never changes because He is love and remains the same regardless of our vacillations and instabilities.
