Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Declare Yahweh Mekaddesh


Matthew 6:9-13

 Pray, then, in this way:‘Our Father who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done,On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]
We live in a fallen world, and it is always more pronounced to us in the United States during an election year. We hear all the negatives about candidates, and never know who to believe, the accused or the accuser. It is frustrating.  But the one thing we must remember is that we must no matter  what the world is doing or saying, is that God has called us as Christians to BE HOLY. He is holy, therefore we are to be holy.
Too hard a task?  Indeed it is without Him!  It is impossible without Him. But we have a privilege as Christians!  Because of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, we have the Holy Spirit ready and willing to bring our requests right to the feet of God the Father through Jesus (Yeshua) We must remember that we have Him,  Yahweh Mekaddesh. He makes you Holy.  
Remember this:
"Holy is the way God is.  To be holy He does not conform to a standard.  He is that standard. He is absolutely holy with an infinite, incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is. Because He is holy, His attributes are holy; that is, whatever we think of as belonging to God must be thought of as holy."
                    ~ A,. W. Tozer 

Remember you (we) are the bride of Christ. We have been bought with a price. We have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to guide us and to protect us and to comfort us. He is at work in us to to will and to work for His good pleasure. What He has begun in us, He will compete. Remember that someday soon we will see Him face to face! In all His glory we will see Him! We must remember that all that seems so important to us, now will soon pass away, and those who know Christ, and are saved through His grace will be have the wonderful privilege of declaring Yahweh Mekaddesh, singing in the throne room for all eternity, 
"Holy holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is  and is to come" ~ Revelation 4:8b


Revelation 4
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Scene in Heaven4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “ Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. 3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.The Throne and Worship of the Creator5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. 7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.”9 And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,11 Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.”

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