Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 3 words

Hello everyone,
How are you doing on this day? I hope well. Happy Happy Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, it is Thanksgiving Day here in the States and I pray we make the Lord's testimonies as our heritage even today and forevermore.

3 letter words, yet so ... muah! In high school, we would use such terms as chasis, burns, just to signify that these words are 'the bomb.' These words, from John 15v4 are ... drum rolls:

"ABIDE IN ME..." Simply put - Abide in Me that is Abide in Jesus. The Amplified Bible says - "DWELL IN ME..." Simply put - stay, remain, abide, dwell, make Him your abode. Its strange that people ask, where do you live - and you say, oh, I live in... You hardly say I abide in Cambridge or I dwell in Cambridge. The place where we physically live, we could leave it for holidays, for school, and sometimes are not so sure we will always be there - perhaps flood, or storm or inability to pay the mortgage forces you away.

Abiding is seemingly more different. It means to be for always, and always and always. To dwell means the same. And Jesus says for us to ABIDE in Him. He being like an outer shell which we swim on the inside of - regardless of tempestous times or things beckoning us to come out of that shell, Jesus says to DWELL in Him. Regardless of what we are feeling on the inside of us, Jesus says to ABIDE in Him. Please ABIDE in Him - there is no hope outside of Him.

Have a blessed day.

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Verse for thought:
"For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring." Acts 17v28

"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" Ephesians 2v6

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Our Father in Heaven,
We say thank You Father, thank You for life, thank You for joy, thank You for peace, thank You Jesus, thank You Holy Spirit of God. We thank You o Lord because we can abide in You, O Prince of peace and Lord of lords. How great to be able to abide in You. We truly are grateful. Lord, we lift up our lives into Your hands and say Lord, have Your way in Jesus name, amen.