'Relating to God' Tagged Posts
The Secret of the Lord
“The Secret of the Lord” June 3, 2017 The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him… —Psalm 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God tell us any…
Are You Obsessed by Something?
Are You Obsessed by Something? By Oswald Chambers – June 2, 2017 Who is the man that fears the Lord? —Psalm 25:12 Are you obsessed by something? You will probably say, “No, by nothing,” but all of us are obsessed by something— usually by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our own experience of the Christian life. But the psalmist says that we are to be obsessed by God. The abiding awareness of the Christian life is to be…
Untroubled Relationship
Untroubled Relationship By Oswald Chambers – May 29, 2017 In that day you will ask in My name…for the Father Himself loves you… —John 16:26-27 “In that day you will ask in My name…,” that is, in My nature. Not “You will use My name as some magic word,” but— “You will be so intimate with Me that you will be one with Me.” “That day” is not a day in the next life, but a day meant for here…
The Evidence of New Birth
The Evidence of the New Birth from Utmost.org – August 15, 2016 You must be born again. —John 3:7 The answer to Nicodemus’ question, “How can a man be born when he is old?” is: Only when he is willing to die to everything in his life, including his rights, his virtues, and his religion, and becomes willing to receive into himself a new life that he has never before experienced (John 3:4). This new life exhibits itself in our conscious…
Daily Devotional – Establishing Peace
Establishing Peace By Billy Graham • July 22, 2016 Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. —Romans 5:1 Before the Big Four Conference in Geneva I watched President Eisenhower kneel in a chapel and ask God for divine guidance in the deliberations to follow. I felt sure that God would answer his earnest prayer. I believe that He did, for President Eisenhower during those days displayed the spirit of a true peacemaker on…
Daily Devotional – Time for Us
Time for Us By Billy Graham • July 10, 2016 Do not worry about your life . . . —Matthew 6:25 (NIV) Some people ask, “Do you think God has time for me? You don’t know how mixed up my life is, how confused it is; the pressures, the tension at home, the business problems, so many things I couldn’t possibly tell you about, including the sins in my life that I somehow cannot seem to give up.” Yes, God…
Prayer Is a Conversation By Billy Graham • June 30, 2016 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. —Matthew 21:22 Prayer is a two-way conversation; it is our talking to God, and His talking to us. As a Christian, you have a heavenly Father who hears and answers prayer. Jesus said, “All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Every man or woman whose life has counted for the church…
Daily Devotional – Have You Come to “When” Yet?
Have You Come to “When” Yet? – From Utmost.org June 20, 2016 The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. —Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is actually a sign that I am rebelling against the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I…
Daily Devotional –
Look Deeply By Billy Graham June 16 , 2016 Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your Word. —Psalm 119:18 (TLB) Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve. If you have any uncertainty about the inspiration of the Bible, go back and look at it again. Look at it in the light of a person who has been staring…
Daily Devotional – And After that What’s next to do?
And After That What’s Next To Do? – from Utmost.org June 10, 2016 …seek, and you will find… —Luke 11:9 Seek if you have not found. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss…” (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, “you ask amiss”; that is, you ask out of your desire for self-fulfillment. The more you fulfill yourself the less you will seek God. “…seek, and you will find….” Get to…
Daily Devotional – Reconciliation
Reconciliation By Billy Graham June 7, 2016 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son . . . —Romans 5:10 The word “reconcile” means literally “bring into a changed relationship.” It means to bring together two parties who should have been together all along. The Bible speaks of the human race as enemies of God. You may say that you are no “enemy” of God, but according to Scripture we are…
Daily Devotional – Untroubled Relationship
Untroubled Relationship – from Utmost.org May 29, 2016 In that day you will ask in My name…for the Father Himself loves you… —John 16:26-27 “In that day you will ask in My name…,” that is, in My nature. Not “You will use My name as some magic word,” but— “You will be so intimate with Me that you will be one with Me.” “That day” is not a day in the next life, but a day meant for here and…