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Isaiah 50:4- “The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary…”
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    • DNA of God

      Posted at 2:20 pm by wonderfuljesus8, on April 2, 2021

      2 Peter 1:3-4- “As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” NKJV

      Creator of the Universe

      My husband and I took a cruise to Hawaii for our 25th anniversary. It was fabulous! Every morning I would find him sitting on the balcony, reading his Bible or praying. He found it to be so relaxing. Not being an early riser, I would join him and enjoy the serenity of the morning. For some reason, although I believe God is truly omnipresent, He felt closer to me on the waters of the Pacific.

      Paul understood the majesty of creation because he wrote:

      For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse

      Romans 1:20 NKJV

      As I conclude my discussion on these verses in 2 Peter, I want to look at the remainder of the verse: “partakers of the divine nature”. Peter clearly states that we, believers in Christ, can partake of the divine nature and power of God. Religion persuades us to believe that we are mere mortals, subject to whatever whims God may have because we can never know what He will do. Yet, Peter wrote just the opposite in these verses: we can know God, we can partake of His power, His glory, and His nature, and it is what He wants us to do!

      Let us go back to the beginning.

      Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

      Genesis 1:26 NKJV

      God didn’t make Adam a god, although He made Adam in His image. Adam was a genius. He named all the animals of the garden. He was perfect and without sin. He talked openly and freely with God. He had dominion over everything in the garden. His life was a life of peace, joy, fulfillment, godliness, and holiness. He was like God! Until he allowed sin in. As we choose to become Christians, we are spiritually restored to the state that Adam was in, with the intent for us to be more like God and less like man. Not because man is so horrible, but because God is that good to us!

      How can we partake of the divine nature of God? Let’s understand what partaker means. According to the Vine’s, one of my favorite resources, it means “a partner, or sharer”. So we don’t get ownership of His nature, He invites us to share in His nature. Therefore, the first thing we most do is, we must be born again! I know! I keep repeating it, but it is ever so true! We must be born again! Once we are born again, we are able to escape the corruption that is in the world. Peter wrote that when we are born again we are called out of darkness into His marvelous light! Paul penned that we are delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son. This is the first step in partaking of His divine nature. If we are going to share in His nature, it starts with salvation!

      Going back to other parts of the verse, as we get to know Him and embrace His exceedingly great and precious promises, we can share in His nature. We can forgive, because He is a forgiver by nature, and empowers us to forgive. We can love, because He is love, and His divine power enables us to love the unlovely. How many times have you found yourself loving when others didn’t understand it? It His nature you were partaking! Who did you forgive, that you didn’t think it was possible for you to forgive? It was the Divine Nature of the Almighty (DNA) inside of you!

      I was in a situation where I overheard a conversation. There was a misunderstanding that caused several people to be at odds with one another. The person I overheard was expressing the hurt that they felt over the situation, but more importantly, the desire to get things out in the open so they could move on. I heard that person’s wisdom in handling the situation. I heard that person speak of making things right so they could move forward unhindered. Forgiveness was extended, and that person even took responsibility for the mix up. When the conversation was over, I told that person, I had just witnessed Jesus! It was the greatest testimony that individual could have shared with me about the genuineness of the faith she had in Him (the Divine Nature of the Almighty God in operation)!

      Sunday I went to visit at my former church. When I got there, one of the members was really excited to see me. She had prayed the night before, telling God that she wished she could see me at church so that I could pray for her. God manifests His healing nature at different times when I pray, especially in the area of pain. Sure enough, I was there. She was so excited! I prayed for her briefly and went my way. Later that night, there was no change. (I generally check up on people I pray for). When she told me that, I just said, “Check yourself in the morning”. Sure enough, the next morning was a different story. Did I heal her? No! But God allowed us to share in His nature as healing was manifested in her body, because He’s the Healer! The Great Physician! (Again, the Divine Nature of the Almighty God working as we laid hold to the exceedingly great and precious promise in regards to healing).

      And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

      Mark 16:17-18 NKJV

      The part of His divine nature we struggle most with is His supernatural power. We fail to realize that anything we do with Him is supernatural. Forgiveness, love, giving, kindness, serving. Therefore, we tend to separate that part of His divine nature from the other part of His divine nature: releasing power!

      As we live this life in Christ, and He lives His life in us, I can assure you that He doesn’t want to be stifled. His greatest joy is seeing the kingdom become a reality in our lives. He left us with many precious promises that we might realize the greatness of the love and grace He has for us, the power He has made available to us, that we can partake of Him! It’s really time for us to dare to believe that every promise in His word belongs to us! As we step out in faith and begin to take Him at His word, we will begin to see things happen. When it doesn’t work, trouble shoot and try again; but don’t ever give up! He purposefully shared His divine nature with us that we may know Him more completely!

      It’s the Passover/Easter season! A time to rejoice in all that Calvary, and more precisely, the resurrection affords us! I end with Paul’s prayer for every believer:

      “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come! Amen and Amen! Wonderful Jesus!

      Ephesians 1:17-21 NKJV
      Posted in 2 Peter 1:3-4, Divine Nature, God, Jesus, Knowing God | 0 Comments | Tagged Creation, Deliverance, divine nature of God, Easter, Forgiveness, Healing, new life, Passover, Paul, power of God, Salvation
    • There is No Other God!

      Posted at 10:00 am by wonderfuljesus8, on August 18, 2020

      Isaiah 45:18 – “For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord , and there is no other.” NKJV

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      If I could do a blog in pictures, showing the beauty of the earth, there would be no country, no place, left out. The world is absolutely beautiful because of the God who created it. Every corner of the Earth declares His glory as the Creator and as God.

      As I was in prayer today, I felt impressed upon, by the Holy Spirit to blog about God. I immediately thought about the truth that the Old Testament, to me, is the revealing of God, to humanity. Since 66 books can’t do Him justice, I know one blog entry can’t touch Him, but I will try!

      In Genesis, we see God as our Creator. He created the world in which we live, in six days. As Creator God, we see His love for color in the greens of the forests, the blues of the waters and the skies, the grays and browns and purples of the mountains, the browns and black in the hills, the multiple colors of the soils of the Earth. We see His diversity and creativity in the mountain peaks, the valleys, the deserts, the volcanoes, the caves, the rivers and oceans, the waterfalls, and so much more! He didn’t make everything flat, or everything hilly, or everything the same. He made different landscapes and regions for the multi-faceted race of people He had in mind.

      This place called Earth was made by God, for us! Genesis doesn’t tell us when He created the Earth, just that He did, fashioning it with all that was needed for mankind to live. The perfect amount of oxygen for sustaining us, the perfect balance in the atmosphere so that we can walk on land and not float around it. Natural resources around the world, to provide food, lodging, recreation, and livelihoods. He thought of it all, because He is God. It is a stable place to live on with so much to offer us!

      He established the Earth! He’s the Founder! It wasn’t man’s idea to form the Earth, but God’s, and yet we live as if there is no need for Him. Many founders are forgotten because they pass away and become a memory. But not God! He is always and forever! When He is forgotten, it is because man has chosen to ignore Him and all that He has done. But the Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.

      Paul penned this concept of creation in Romans 1:

      “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,” NKJV

      The beauty of nature, the majesty of the landforms, the very air that we breathe, all declare the glory of our God! We are all without excuse when we fail to acknowledge the truth that He is God and there is none beside Him!

      Isaiah pointed out that God didn’t create the earth in vain. He used the word “tohuw” which also means “without form”. In other words, God didn’t make the earth without form, He made it perfect. Yet, in Genesis, the Earth is without form and void, same word. It is empty, desolate, and unstable. There is no life and there is no light to be found. Something happened to make it that way, because that was not how God created it.

      Some theologians believe that it was the falling of Satan from heaven that made the Earth this way. They say the place that God had created with such love and beauty was not “tohuw”, or “without form and void”. Some say, that when Satan fell to Earth, everything was destroyed, including the dinosaurs! Science isn’t my thing, so I can’t say for certain! But I understand that the Earth was beautiful, then it wasn’t, and then it was again. God recreated the beauty of the Earth and He did it for us to inhabit.

      Creation itself speaks of the truth that God is God and besides Him there is no other! We are to go into the world to proclaim the gospel, but wherever we go, and whenever we arrive, know that creation has already spoken to the hearts and soul of mankind everywhere that there is a God. They may not know who He is, so it is our responsibility to tell them of the One true God! He’s worth knowing, worth loving, worth living for, and if need be, worth dying for. Everything He has done, He has done with us in mind. Our well-being is uppermost in His heart.

      No wonder Jesus said, “Consider the lilies!” If God took such special care in adorning nature, He will take even greater care in providing for us! He’s already demonstrated that with His creation of the world! There’s nothing too big or too small for our God. This is He, who created the chicken without an egg! This is He, who made a man without him first being an infant! This is He, who made mountains that are yet standing! And this is He, who loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to die on the cross for us! What an amazing God He is! And there is none other like Him! Wonderful Jesus!

      Posted in Creation, God | 4 Comments | Tagged Creation, Evangelism, God, heaven and the earth, love, provision, supernatural, the Creator, the Glory of the Lord
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