KJV Dramatized Audio

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Oslo Gospel Choir - This Is The Lord's Doing

Today is the day of our grandson's birth and it is marvelous.!

Thank you Jesus.

 

 

 

You Deserve The Glory

64 years

Dear God, 
Today , I have finished my sixty-fourth year and I thank you with all my heart that you have been my shelter and shield over the years. Without you Lord there would be no life worth living. 
I will soon start a new way of life, and I have been concerned and sometimes desperate when I think about the years ahead. But I know that  the years ahead are also your years and I have to let go of my anxiety and place it all in your hands.  
  
Faith is tested in different ways and  recently it feels like I've been walking a long uphill road where I have become more and more exhausted and now have to stop and rest.
You have led me to a serious road where things I believe in have been put to the test and I have become silent to be able to see what you want me to understand.
You have touched things I have long forgotten; you have shown me that after all these years together  with you Lord, it is still necessary to be watchful and careful i my walk in faith, so I can  know what is true and what is in harmony with your Word.

I have realized now, that the  seriousness of your guidance in my journey of faith, is related to a thought at the beginning of 2014. I felt my faith needed to be deepened  and in your infinite wisdom you  placed  me in emotional storms right from the start.You have reminded me this year, that I must deepen my  roots in you to be able to live my faith and not just talk of faith.
To trust you Lord is a lifelong lesson, and I I'm still learning.

Yesterday when I was going home from work Lord, you gave me an image of a memory I had forgotten ...
     A little girl is sitting alone on a firewood box beside the stove in a small country church. She is holding her song book upside down because she can not read yet, but she sings solemnly with the others and listens to the Word of God. It is an image from the old chapel where her faith first was founded. Now sixty-four years later I'm sitting on a bench beside that girl; watching her, with her white bow in her hair and her innocent look; and I'm thinking how  little she knew about  life and what she would be faced with.

I think you wanted me to remember this image so I would also remember that it is your constant love that has been, and still is, walking alongside me on my path through life.

I thank you Lord for my salvation through Jesus Christ, 
I thank you for your guidance though the Holy Spirit 
and I thank you for being my God and my Father.

In the name of the Father, 
The Son and The Holy Spirit
Amen.
                                                                    

The True Pattern by pastor Francis Frangipane

The True Pattern
It is one thing to be able to discern what is false, but it is of much greater value to know the pattern of the true. Thus the apostle Paul uses chapter 3 of Philippians to reveal his attitude of heart. In so doing, he gives us the pattern of what we should look for in a leader.
After presenting his remarkable pedigree in versus 5 and 6 -- an Israelite by birth; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness defined in the Law, found blameless -- Paul then renounces the very things he attained, saying: "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ" (v. 7). For the mature man or woman, no position or esteem among men can replace the "surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus [our] Lord." Even the most amazing of achievements are reduced to "rubbish in order that [we] may gain Christ" (v. 8).

Paul separates himself further from the Mosaic Law, revealing that his quest is to "be found in [Christ], not having a righteousness of [his] own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ" (v. 9). Having been saved from the consequences of the Law, and having received a new source of "righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith," Paul is liberated to pursue his true destiny: Christlikeness!

We began this study last week with Paul's admonition to "observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us" (v. 17). In verses 10-11 the Lord reveals the divine template for the new creation man: Christlikeness. With this vision in his mind, Paul continues demonstrating the true pattern as a quest for intimacy and conforming to Christ. He wrote:
"That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead."
There is a difference between knowing a collection of religious truths and actually knowing Christ. Truth is in Jesus; He Himself in the way, the truth and the life. To know Him is eternal life, and to live in fellowship with Him is to partake of the nectar of Heaven.
Yet knowing Christ also means knowing the fellowship of His sufferings as we lay down our lives for the redemption of others. For those suffering for Jesus, remember: participation in His sufferings is part of knowing Him.
Paul did not embrace death as an entity by itself; he embraced Christ's death, which is not only the death of self but also the triumph of love. It is this surrender to "death for Jesus' sake" that allows "the life of Jesus [to] be manifested in our mortal flesh" (2 Cor. 4:11).
Paul continued in Philippians, "Not that I have already . . . become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:12). Again we are looking at the pattern God seeks for each of us. A mature Christian is one who lives in pursuit of God!

Paul continues, saying "One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (vv.13–14).

What specifically did Paul choose to "forget"? He let go of the wounds, forgave the offenses, and released to God the disappointments of yesterday. Nothing in Paul's past would be larger than Christ in his future. He pressed toward the prize of possessing Christ.

Many teachers will come and go throughout your life. They will have different styles and unique gifts and graces. But you are looking for the attitudes Paul described in this chapter. Look for those who are pressing toward the prize of Christlikeness. As for the others, pray for them, stand with them and, as you are led by the Lord, encourage them in love and prayer. But remember: Paul set the pattern for us. In these times of deception, accusation and false discernment, let us observe those who walk after the pattern of Paul. Let us discern the influence of Jesus in those who lead us. As we clearly see the Lord, let us follow those who follow Christ

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The preceding excerpt is adapted from the book The Days of His Presence, by Pastor Frangipane. This book with associated audio resources are currently on sale at www.arrowbookstore.com.

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