Re: POWER of PRAYER- No Matter Which Faith You Follow=GOD is With You
Bring Them Home to Glory
The heavenly Father wasn't willing to lose his beloved creatures to the powers of hell, so he formed a rescue plan for us. "Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: 'I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.'" (Psalm 89:19, ESV). The Father said to his Son, "Humankind is going to grow weak and miserable because of their sin, helpless to find their way back to me. I appoint you as my holy one to help bring them back into my favor."
We hear the Son's own covenant words: "I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart" (Psalm 40:8). Everything Jesus did on earth was in fulfillment of his terms of the covenant: "For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment; what to say and what to speak" (John 12:49).
The Bible states the terms of this covenant clearly. Jesus was to divest himself of all heavenly glory, taking on a human body: "...who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:6-7). He was to endure reproaches and suffering: "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3). After all this, he was to submit himself into the hands of wicked men; and in great agony, he lay down his life as an offering for humankind's sin. In making atonement, he would have to endure God's wrath for a season.
God then laid out the type of ministry his Son would undertake to redeem humankind. He told Jesus, "Your ministry is going to be that of a priest. I've known all my children from the foundation of the world, and now I give them as a flock for you to shepherd." Jesus testified on earth, "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out" (John 6:37).
This is our great hope and glory in Christ! Let us rest in that today.
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I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4
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