"Okay Then"

"I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts." (Psalms 119:63)

  Not that it matters, but I had the feeling there were many out there that might have misunderstood yesterday's post. The Scripture that speaks to the "Strong Tower" reference is found in Proverbs 18:10, and the basic thing that Solomon is speaking of is the Name of the LORD, as this: "The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." To put this into some kind of an illustration, I would reference when Jesus told Peter, "Upon this Rock I will build my church." There is nothing about what Jesus said that meant Peter would be the Rock, the Rock is what Peter said and how it was that he was able to understand and say it. This is the biggest difference between all other religions and the Christian faith, knowing who Jesus is and having the Spirit within us to confirm it! Obviously, there are many different types of churches that confess to be part of the Christian faith; many of which, are Christian in name only, because when it comes to believing the Bible and the fact that Jesus is God, they are completely off the reservation. As to yesterday's post, and the fact that prayer takes us anywhere whatsoever, I know for a fact that it does! I know that I can enter in; I know that He is living in me; and I know that there is power we can experience when we pray, that is not of this world. It is that which I am speaking of, the way we pray, when the reality sets into our hearts and minds that we are not "Dwellers of this earth!" That is my illustration of the "Strong Tower," and what it actually looks like; because there is nothing that is part of this earth that can touch us, if indeed we are not attached to this earth! This is something I believe can only be made aware to us through prayer. We can learn about it in the Bible through Scriptures, we can be explained about it from teachers and preachers; but we can never actually realize the true impact that it has on our relationship with this world, unless we see it from the proper perspective. Much the same way Peter saw Jesus, if only for the moment, it was something that was not of this world that he experienced; a revelation, if you will, that, as Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." (Mathew 16:17) Again, the "precepts" of God are His law, plural! Every single letter and exclamation mark that is written in the Holy Bible, it is all one big picture that cannot be denied or taken away from or added to. If we are looking for companionship with believers, we must not deny the Written Word...

"We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of Life. This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us. We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy." (1 John 1:1-4) NLT