DEPEND ON EL SHADDAI

At the risk of doing this too often, I just totally love how our author, Catherine Martin talks about depending on El Shaddai, and think it is very much worth my just copy and pasting what she wrote today. I am not being lazy, I just love what she has to say and want to share her words with you. This book is so good, I truly encourage you to buy a copy if you have not done so already. Here is the link for the book: TRUSTING IN THE NAMES OF GOD FROM PAGE 135 OF THE BOOK, I QUOTE:

DEPEND ON EL SHADDAI
"Perhaps no other name inspires a greater faith and trust than El Shaddai. Knowing El Shaddai will light the fire of devotion in your heart. Drawing near to El Shaddai will make you a radical disciple in your generation. Loving El Shaddai will set you apart from many in your culture as you dare to do mighty things in His power and strength. You will be like Billy Graham, who loved God so much he dared to preach to stadiums of thousands. You will be like George Mueller, a nineteenth -century evangelist and philanthropist, who believed God for millions of dollars to build orphanages in England. You will be like King David, who as a young boy, dared to slay a giant. No obstacles will defeat you. Nothing will be impossible for you, because you know El Shaddai, the one who is greater than any difficulty.
When El Shaddai calls you to Himself, He will inspire you to great tasks and sometimes even great suffering and sorrows. Adoniram Judson, credited as the first American missionary to go overseas, was clear about his call to go to Burma. His task was a great one and included translating the first Burmese Bible, enabling those in Burma to read, and study God's word, changing their lives forever. But Judson's hardships were many, including the loss of children and two wives as well as devastating illnesses. He found God to be equal to the magnitude of  the task, loss, or illness. At the end of his life, within days of his death, he wrote this:

Lying here on my bed, when I could not talk, I have had such views of the loving condensations of Christ and the glories of heaven as I believe are seldom granted to mortal man . . . I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world. Yet when Christ calls me home, I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from his school. Perhaps I feel something like the young bride, when she contemplates resigning the pleasant associations of her childhood for a yet dearer home ~ though only a very little like her, for there is no doubt resting on my future . . . I feel so strong in Christ.

Gods sufficiency is always more than a match for our urgency.

El Shaddai will inspire us to great prayer.

I know the greatest joy of my life is my time talking with El Shaddai. I love prayer time. It is the best and most important time of my day. And I love that I can go through every day all day long just talking with God. I get my greatest joy, (and believe me, with all my kids, grand kids and the most amazing husband on earth, I have a lot of  joys), from my time spent with El Shaddai. Please join me in reading the following verses from Scripture:

Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Philippians 4:6-7
'Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.'
Hebrews 11:6
'And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.'
1 John 5:4
'For whatever is ]born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world ~ our faith.'

When you trust in El Shaddai, you will learn never to give up as you watch God match your need with His sufficiency regardless of the depth of the challenge. ~ Catherine Martin ~