Leadership Which Can Impart and Transmit Reassurance and Confidence in a Courageous Sensitive Way!
There are many people who would like to be assured and reassured that they are established in God, and that is a possibility which can so easily become a reality.
Almighty God shall strengthen you, and establish you, so that you cannot be shaken, but it depends upon trusting in the Lord, and that means trusting in Jesus Christ.
How would you like to exercise your leadership in such a helpful way and how many people are looking for this type of leadership in these trying times? There is a longing for this reality which is to come and we taste something of this in Psalm 125.
Over these past weeks I have been reading and studying these fifteen Psalms of Ascent and in Psalm 125 there is a sure sound note of security.
If you would like to experience spiritual security learn and understand what God is saying to us in these Psalms.
Psalm 125 is all about Zion, or about Jerusalem, or about heaven, all depending from which perspective you read it but we today can read this Psalm in the light of our experience of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
This Psalm is profoundly spiritual.
This was not just a physical pilgrimage, but it was also a spiritual pilgrimage.
There has been a real progress and it has been a very real progressing.
In our spiritual lives, there has to be progress.
When we trust in the Lord God Almighty, we can become like Mount Zion, and even when attacked at times, or when under the fire of the enemy, or facing all the deceit and undermining, we are able to endure and able to persevere, knowing that God is preserving us.
Now, that is valuable priceless knowledge which cannot be found or embraced from any other source in the whole world.
These people were on a pilgrimage, and for many of them it was greatly inconvenient, and they came to worship together, in Jerusalem, at the Feasts and Festivals, and to fellowship with one another, and for some it was a hazardous as well as an inconvenient journey.
This was the earthly Jerusalem, and not the heavenly Jerusalem.
Foes would be surrounding them.
Even in Jerusalem there were difficulties.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem so the Lord surrounds His people.
It has been a tremendous privilege and joy to visit Jerusalem on various occasions.
Jerusalem is like a saucer, physically speaking, and when inside we have that sense of physical security.
This is so true of the Church of Jesus Christ.
When inside the Church of Jesus Christ, we have that sense of physical and spiritual and emotional security.
Fear can be removed.
We know that when the situation becomes hot and tough, there are people who will appear and stand by us and with us and for us.
The disciple of Jesus Christ, Peter, who was 'born again' in Jerusalem and who led that vibrant young Church taught that the God of all grace who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong.
Peter knew what it was to be in prison for his faith in Jesus Christ and yet he gave such strong courageous leadership to the disciples over a period of thirty years.
This world of ours today needs such strong leadership - a leadership which can impart or transmit assurance and reassurance and confidence in a courageous sensitive way.
If I am able to help and teach and assist in any way I would be most pleased and willing so to do! Might Almighty God be calling you to exercise your leadership skills in such an encouraging and positive dimension? It is certainly possible if you are willing to learn the basic essential lessons.
Almighty God shall strengthen you, and establish you, so that you cannot be shaken, but it depends upon trusting in the Lord, and that means trusting in Jesus Christ.
How would you like to exercise your leadership in such a helpful way and how many people are looking for this type of leadership in these trying times? There is a longing for this reality which is to come and we taste something of this in Psalm 125.
Over these past weeks I have been reading and studying these fifteen Psalms of Ascent and in Psalm 125 there is a sure sound note of security.
If you would like to experience spiritual security learn and understand what God is saying to us in these Psalms.
Psalm 125 is all about Zion, or about Jerusalem, or about heaven, all depending from which perspective you read it but we today can read this Psalm in the light of our experience of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
This Psalm is profoundly spiritual.
This was not just a physical pilgrimage, but it was also a spiritual pilgrimage.
There has been a real progress and it has been a very real progressing.
In our spiritual lives, there has to be progress.
When we trust in the Lord God Almighty, we can become like Mount Zion, and even when attacked at times, or when under the fire of the enemy, or facing all the deceit and undermining, we are able to endure and able to persevere, knowing that God is preserving us.
Now, that is valuable priceless knowledge which cannot be found or embraced from any other source in the whole world.
These people were on a pilgrimage, and for many of them it was greatly inconvenient, and they came to worship together, in Jerusalem, at the Feasts and Festivals, and to fellowship with one another, and for some it was a hazardous as well as an inconvenient journey.
This was the earthly Jerusalem, and not the heavenly Jerusalem.
Foes would be surrounding them.
Even in Jerusalem there were difficulties.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem so the Lord surrounds His people.
It has been a tremendous privilege and joy to visit Jerusalem on various occasions.
Jerusalem is like a saucer, physically speaking, and when inside we have that sense of physical security.
This is so true of the Church of Jesus Christ.
When inside the Church of Jesus Christ, we have that sense of physical and spiritual and emotional security.
Fear can be removed.
We know that when the situation becomes hot and tough, there are people who will appear and stand by us and with us and for us.
The disciple of Jesus Christ, Peter, who was 'born again' in Jerusalem and who led that vibrant young Church taught that the God of all grace who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong.
Peter knew what it was to be in prison for his faith in Jesus Christ and yet he gave such strong courageous leadership to the disciples over a period of thirty years.
This world of ours today needs such strong leadership - a leadership which can impart or transmit assurance and reassurance and confidence in a courageous sensitive way.
If I am able to help and teach and assist in any way I would be most pleased and willing so to do! Might Almighty God be calling you to exercise your leadership skills in such an encouraging and positive dimension? It is certainly possible if you are willing to learn the basic essential lessons.
