Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Your Testimonies Testify and Stand by Cross Examination.

"I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation." Psalm 119: 99

Your testimonies are faithful and true. Your testifiers are awesome and so worthy of our remembrance.
Firstly we think of Jesus. Your express Image.
Secondly there are so many others like Daniel, Ezekiel, Paul, David, Moses, Abraham, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Hosea and so many more like Stephen, Nicolas and Rahab to consider.  So many that we need to remember and see how their testimonies STAND the test of time, the court of world examination, standing for truth, love and the eternal promises beginning with life giving, salvation.

Your testimonies cannot fail and are never false.

Your testimonies are for everyone that ever lives and gives their lives to You by believing in Jesus.

Your testimonies cover all and every examination, especially "cross" examination.

Your testimony is Jesus. His cross divides all of us from sin and is our measuring stick, our Ruler by which we align our values.

Your testifiers now include us. We who love Jesus today, and seek to share His gospel every day in every way.

Oh Father God, we meditate right now on Your testimonies. You have given us such great yet flawed human beings to imitate, who have glorified You, testifying by their lives and by their deaths of Your greatness. The cross of Christ is the divider, offender and decider of all that is faithful and true. The world cannot erase the cross or the power of salvation over sin and death once and for all. The power of the cross stands. We testify, forgiven, saved and every ready to share with the spiritually dead and dying. We testify of the living, everlasting, unconditional, impartial love of Christ and of His presence.
You are love, peace, joy, hope, mercy, triumph, all powerful, all mighty, ever present, the One who was and is and is to come. We worship You. We praise You. We seek to spread Your good news throughout our lives, every day, in every way possible. Show us always, those prepared hearts You've placed along our paths to invite to Christ. Thanks that this is the job of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us and faithfully helps us always in all ways!  We pray for the persecuted church, for miraculous interventions, interruptions of the oozing evil which surrounds them. Cause them to know You are with them in the furnace of affliction, in the crucifixion and even the beheadings. We picture Stephen's shining face during his murder. We cannot accurately fathom all of this, but we can faithfully keep it all in the power of prayer as You make us prayer aware. We hope our prayers interrupt awful evil as You intervene perhaps to even save the terrorists. We recall Paul was a terrorist that You completely turned around. We pray peace to Israel and we thank You for how great, salvation. Amen.



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