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Welcoming the Spirit to Meet Your Need

But I need Thee greatly need Thee

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit
Though I cannot tell Thee how
But I need Thee greatly need Thee
Come O come and fill me now

Fill Me Now 1879
By: Elwood H. Stokes (1815-1897)

Listen to this modern version of this classic hymn as you prepare to ponder the lyrics. Please make certain to enjoy the podcast below.

Here is podcast content always available as part of an extensive archive of resources. We have lots of tools and options designed to help you be Resonant!  Check them out today and please consider becoming a Subscriber to support our mission of providing these tools to everyone with access to the internet!!

Everyone enjoy this podcast and transcript below!  It features meditative music and moments to contemplate the Scriptures and reflections shared.

Transcript may be found below, at the end of the blog.

As we continue our journey through this penitent text and hymn, make each stanza your own by praying through it. Let’s think about this.

Great Need

We come with open, empty hands.

This admission does not come easy for most of us. We have needs. It is rather difficult for most of us to readily admit we have need of assistance beyond our own capacities. In short, we are not naturally a humble bunch.

To admit that we need help, that we need some intervention can be a challenging thing to acknowledge, no matter the scenario. This is especially true at the root of our deepest need, peace with God. The Holy Spirit is the One who meets that need by revealing to us our need of a Savior and the reality that Jesus wants to be that for us.

Among all our other needs, even the most spiritual ones, this is the most crucial. We need strength to live daily for God’s glory. We need patience to deal with the difficult people in our lives. We need peace in the midst of our conflicts. But most of all we need need the Spirit of God to dwell in us marking us as those who belong to Christ.

But I need Thee greatly need Thee

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. Romans 8:9 ESV

We need the Spirit because He is the one who imparts Christ to us. It is imperative for our salvation that we have Christ and thanks be to God the Spirit makes Him ours and us His. Ask Him to help you live in the Spirit instead of the flesh, then make that choice again every day.

RESONATE!
Have you ever acknowledged this deepest of needs, your need for a Savior? If you have, rejoice that it was the Spirit in you that allowed you to do so, and that same Spirit who revealed Christ to you. If not, do so today. Pray, “Spirit, I confess my need of a Savior and pray you will make me His and He mine.” 

The Gift

Come O come and fill me now

God fills those open empty hands with light and love, with Himself.

When we acknowledge our need to God, whether for a Savior or for any other need which He reveals to us, He delights to fill that need. He reveals it so that He can meet it and in doing so allow us the privilege of knowing Him more. The need becomes a way for us to come to know God and His goodness to us.

If you have a need in your life today do not hesitate to bring it to God. Bring it in your open hand and give it to Him. Then wait patiently to see what He will do with it.

Allow that practice to remind you of your greatest need to routinely come to Him for filling. That filling enables you to live or abide in Him and He in you. This is the work of the Spirit. Thanks be to God!

Come O come and fill me now

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 1 John 4:13ESV

He has given us of His Spirit so we abide in Him. We must make that choice every day, the choice to live in Him as He lives in us. It seems so simple and in many ways it is, but we make it difficult. Ask the Spirit to help you make abiding in Him simpler every day.

RESONATE!
Are you abiding or living with a continual awareness of God’s presence? The Holy Spirit and He alone is the one that will help you cultivate that kind of awareness. That is precisely why it is so important to routinely pray simple prayers that acknowledge your need and ask Him to meet it. Pray, “Spirit, come, o come and fill me now.”

Jesus, thank You for the gift of your Spirit. He reveals You to me and helps me realize how much I need You. Help me to welcome His work in my life every day. In Jesus name. Amen.

Continual Thinking!

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Podcast 29.2 Transcript

Welcome to Thursday Thoughts at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s think about this.

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. 1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV

The Spirit can fill us and graciously chooses to do so, according to His will. He imparts to us the very Presence of God when He fills us. This is such a remarkable and undeserved transaction, a grace we could never merit yet is freely bestowed. Thank Him for filling and empowering you.

Though I cannot tell Thee how

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 ESV

We do not know how He fills us or why He chooses to do so the way He does, yet we marvel at the kindness. What we should pray for is more of Him, but we often get caught in smaller interests. Still He prays for us for what we truly need. Spirit, intercede for me today.

But I need Thee greatly need Thee

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. Romans 8:9 ESV

We need the Spirit because He is the one who imparts Christ to us. It is imperative for our salvation that we have Christ and thanks be to God the Spirit makes Him ours and us His. Ask Him to help you live in the Spirit instead of the flesh, then make that choice again every day.

Come O come and fill me now

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 1 John 4:13 ESV

He has given us of His Spirit so we abide in Him. We must make that choice every day, the choice to live in Him as He lives in us. It seems so simple and in many ways it is, but we make it difficult. Ask the Spirit to help you make abiding in Him simpler every day.

Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has come to your mind, or listen to what He is saying to you, then I will read our text once more, with the refrain

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit
Though I cannot tell Thee how
But I need Thee greatly need Thee
Come O come and fill me now

Take the mindfulness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond.  Until next time, Be Resonant.

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Breath of God

Welcome to Wednesday Wanderings with Dr. Sherri–a time we set aside to wander in the Presence of Jesus and ponder His truths. When you are ready, prepare your mind, body, and soul to have a transformational encounter with Jesus.

PREPARATION: In our last Wandering with Dr. Sherri, we examined  Found Faultless. This week we will examine Just Breathe.  When you are ready, you may begin the dialogue with Jesus and state: “Jesus, I invite you to help me to leisurely wander into your Presence. Prepare my heart to receive, and illuminate my spiritual senses to encounter you.”

 PROMISE: Job 33:4 Amplified Bible

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of [a]the Almighty gives me life [which inspires me].

The Holy Spirit is the Breath of God that created me and creates within me.

PSALM: Fill Me Now 1879
Words and music by: Elwood H Stokes (1815-1897)

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit
Though I cannot tell thee how
But I need Thee greatly need Thee
Come O Come and fill me now
Stokes introduces us to the grace of The Holy Spirit and emphasizes the gift of being filled. He greatly needs to be filled with what?

PARABLE:  I don’t like swimming underwater. If I am honest, its not that I don’t like it. It is that I don’t know afraid of the requirement to be underwater and hold my breath. For a trauma survivor, holding your breath is an unnatural occurrence. You walk around in a state of fear unknowingly holding your breath. Afraid that life, some uncontrollable incident, a trauma, a hurt, a habit, or a hang-up will come along and leave you breathless. You misuse your breath and hold it in fear that your breath will be taken away. That is an oxymoron. I learned this when I went to adult swimming lessons a few years ago. The instructor taught me to take a breath before I went underwater and held my breath. I learned that my breath is my greatest resource in swimming.

Because it was God’s breath that gave me life and His breath that inspires my life, the Holy Spirit, the Breath of God is my greatest supernatural resource. I realize that my fear of water is similar to my fears in life. I am holding my breath in life, afraid that I won’t meet the many tasks of the day. Procrastinating and not doing the genius thing – the God-given world-changing assignment within me because I am afraid that I won’t do it to perfection. So I hold my breath. I pause. I stay stagnant. I put off for tomorrow the wonderful creation God wants me to do today. Hours change to days. Days turn to weeks. Weeks turn to years. Years turn to decades. Until I wake up and realize the strength, the courage, the wisdom I need is living and breathing within me. So… like Stokes, I ask the Holy Spirit to breathe on me and in me and to fill me NOW. I take a deep breath in. I ask for the desire and the power to inspire me to do God’s work.

I breathe out realizing God’s creative Presence and Power lives within me. Then marvelous things happen. Not because I am marvelous but because the wondrous working Breath of God graciously fills me dissipating my paralyzing fears.   There is no room for being paralyzed by fear when the Holy Spirit is filling you with the gracious, creating power of God. He is the air I breathe. I am filled with the gracious, creative power of God. That inspires me and is  “WHY” I can do “WHAT”  God assigned me to do. 

Soul care training exercise:  Where are you holding your breath in life? What are you delaying that the Breath of God is inspiring you to do? 

  • Reflect and let the Holy Spirit reveal to you what creative, God-genius assignment you are being called to do?
    • Notice without judgment and with a curious awareness what comes to your mind. Invite God into your sanctified imagination. Ask Him to bring to your attention where fear has stopped you from using the creative, empowering, and inspiring power of God to do God’s work?
  • Next scan your mind and notice what the Holy Spirit is sharing that you need to know, hear, or do to move forward.
  • Finally, Focus on your breath. As you breathe in, invite the Holy Spirit to fill you NOW with the creative, empower, inspiring, Presence of God and breathe out His love.

PRAYER: Holy Spirit, Breath of God, fill me NOW with your life-giving breath. Breathe into the dead dreams and hopes within me. Let your Presence and Power be life in me. I can’t tell you how, but I know you will give me just what I need. 

PRAISE: Now that you have emptied your mind of the clutter and wandered with Jesus, take a closing moment to fill the Breath of God living within you. Then take the mindfulness of God’s breath of life moving and being within you in these last few minutes of wandering into the next ones and beyond.

Until next time, be Resonant.

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I Can Not Explain It, But I Know It Happens

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit
Though I cannot tell Thee how
But I need Thee greatly need Thee
Come O come and fill me now

Fill Me Now 1879
By: Elwood H. Stokes (1815-1897)

Listen to this worshipful version of this hymn as you prepare to ponder the lyrics. Please make certain to enjoy the video below.

Below is video content always available as part of an extensive archive of resources. We have lots of tools and options designed to help you be Resonant!  Check them out today and please consider becoming a Subscriber to support our mission of providing these tools to everyone with access to the internet!!

Everyone, enjoy this video, and the transcript below.

Transcript may be found below, at the end of the blog.

As we continue our journey through this classic hymn, ask yourself again today upon what are you truly building your hope. Let’s tune our hearts.

Full

He can fill us. This is a simple acknowledgement but a very important one. If we are going to pursue the fullness of God through the filling of His Spirit, it is imperative that we believe it is possible. This should not be simply a mental acknowledgment but a deep-rooted faith.

Think of your faith life in terms of heart, soul, mind, and strength, the totality of you. Imagine you are a glass like the one pictured. The Spirit can fill that glass with the refreshing water of His presence. He has the ability and desire to do so.

Whatever was in the glass before, He gently displaces without changing the form of the glass. The Spirit does this in you. That act is one of unmistakeable grace.

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. 1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV

The Spirit can fill us and graciously chooses to do so, according to His will. He imparts to us the very Presence of God when He fills us. This is such a remarkable and undeserved transaction, a grace we could never merit yet is freely bestowed. Thank Him for filling and empowering you.

There is no question of the Spirit’s ability to fill those who have yielded their lives to God and His ways. Equally, there is no question that His doing so is an act of grace, giving us what we do not deserve. Thank the Spirit for His ability and willingness to graciously fill you.

Spirit, thank You for graciously filling me.

RESONATE!
Take a few moments and thank the Spirit. He wants to fill you and keep you filled. Will you ask Him right not to do that work? Simply pray, “Spirit, come and fill me.”

A Mystery, Not a Secret

Though I can not tell Thee how

The inability to explain this life-altering reality and our need of it is not based so much on an unwillingness, but rather, the genuine lack of understanding exactly how it happens. We know He can fill us, we simply do not know how He does. It is simultaneously a certainty and a mystery.

It is not a secret. On the contrary, we should be quick to point to His influence when anyone observes a change in us. And if we allow Him to exercise this mystery in us, there will be discernible changes in our words and actions.

Though I cannot tell Thee how

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26 ESV

We do not know how He fills us or why He chooses to do so the way He does, yet we marvel at the kindness. What we should pray for is more of Him, but we often get caught in smaller interests. Still He prays for us for what we truly need. Spirit, intercede for me today.

It is a mystery, this filling work of the Holy Spirit. We can not measure it but the effect of it is certainly perceptible. We can not watch it and yet the impact can be witnessed. We struggle to explain or define it though we know it is true. Praise the Spirit for doing the unexplainable.

Spirit, I praise You for doing the unexplainable.

RESONATE!
Take a few moments and reflect on this mystery. Now give Him praise for doing it in you. 

Spirit, thank You for filling me. Thank you that even though I can not explain it, I have felt the reality of it. Teach me to long for that work every moment of every day.  In Jesus’ name. Amen!

Continuous Tuning!

Keep coming back, and we will work to help you remove the things that may hinder your longing for His return by cultivating an awareness of God’s presence. We will help you tune your heart to live out your worship by providing resources like this to help you acknowledge the greatness of God as you become more Resonant, 7 days a week.

Like what you’re finding here?  Fill out the form to the right to get an email with each fresh post and updates of new tools to help you be Resonant.

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Video 29.2 Transcript

Welcome to Tuesday Tunings at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s tune our hearts.

Thou canst fill me gracious Spirit
Though I cannot tell Thee how
But I need Thee greatly need Thee
Come O come and fill me now

There is no question of the Spirit’s ability to fill those who have yielded their lives to God and His ways. Equally, there is no question that His doing so is an act of grace, giving us what we do not deserve. Thank the Spirit for His ability and willingness to graciously fill you.

Spirit, thank You for graciously filling me.

It is a mystery, this filling work of the Holy Spirit. We can not measure it, but the effect of it is certainly perceptible. We can not watch it, and yet the impact can be witnessed. We struggle to explain or define it, though we know it is true. Praise the Spirit for doing the unexplainable.

Spirit, I praise You for doing the unexplainable.

One of the greatest truths in the history of mankind, we need God. We need His presence, and the peace and power which flow from it. Without Him, we are weak and frail. We must routinely acknowledge our great need of Him. Do it now.

Spirit, I need You.

Again this is the prayer we must learn to pray willingly and often. We invite Him to come, to make His presence known to us, meeting us where we are, as we are. We ask Him to fill us, saturating our souls with Himself, moment by moment. Pray that prayer again now.

Spirit, come and fill me now.

Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has surfaced in your heart, or just listen to what He is saying to you, then we will sing once more.

Sing

Take the awareness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond.  Until next time, Be Resonant.

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Bathed in Fire

Hover o’er me Holy Spirit

Hover o’er me Holy Spirit
Bathe my trembling heart and brow
Fill me with Thy hallow’d presence
Come O come and fill me now

Fill Me Now 1879
By: Elwood H. Stokes (1815-1897)

Listen to this worshipful version of this hymn as you prepare to ponder the lyrics. Please make certain to enjoy the video below.

Below is video content always available as part of an extensive archive of resources. We have lots of tools and options designed to help you be Resonant!  Check them out today and please consider becoming a Subscriber to support our mission of providing these tools to everyone with access to the internet!!

Everyone, enjoy this video, and the transcript below.

Transcript may be found below, at the end of the blog.

As we continue our journey through this classic hymn, ask yourself again today upon what are you truly building your hope. Let’s tune our hearts.

Fire

As we ponder this prayer for filling over the next few weeks open your heart to the work of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes because we are afraid of what the Spirit may do we choose no fire over false fire. We prefer powerless safety over what we perceive as the potential danger of fire from on high.

Even this first line opens the door to that risk. If you are going to pray this prayer at all it must be done earnestly. Keep that in mind as you consider each line, and whether or not you will ask God to do it in you.

Hover o’er me Holy Spirit

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. Acts 2:3 ESV

The Spirit came to the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. Like flames of fire He hovered over each one of them. He wants to come and hover over each of us as well, but we must position ourselves like the early disciples. Are you waiting on the Holy Spirit?

Those first disciples experienced tongues of fire resting above each of them. This will likely not be your experience, so be careful not to long for it, and miss His presence. He wants to hover over your life. Invite Him to come and hover over you.

RESONATE!
Take a few moments and ask the Spirit to hover over you. Confess you are not longing for an experience as mush as an encounter with God. Quiet yourself before Him and ask Him to begin to prepare you to be filled by removing an preconceived notions of what that make look or sound like. 

Bathed

Bathe my trembling heart and brow

I can not even fathom what that experience must have been like. They had been through so much since the crucifixion of Jesus: His resurrection and ascension, His command to return to Jerusalem and wait, weeks of hoping and praying, and now this. How must they have felt?

I am certain I would have been trembling as the wind rushed into that room and the flames of the Spirit hovered over each of their heads. Though our experience may be different from theirs it is no less miraculous. God chooses to bathe our hearts and minds with His very presence. Like them, we are never the same.

Jesus had instructed them that power would come upon them. Were they praying for power? He had told them they would be witnesses. Were they praying for those opportunities? Probably both and so much more. Then the Spirit bathed them in His presence. How we long for that same power and to be witnesses like them so that others may know the love of God.

Bathe my trembling heart and brow

…God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:5b ESV

He wants to do more than hover over us, He wants to bathe us in His presence, cleansing and purifying us so we are prepared to serve Him. His Spirit ushers His transforming love into our hearts and changes us.

When the Spirit begins to reveal Himself to us, it is an overwhelming feeling and concept, engaging both the heart and the mind. We may find ourselves trembling in His presence as He envelopes us. Ask the Spirit to bathe your heart and brow.

Spirit, bathe my trembling heart and brow.

RESONATE!
Take a few moments and quiet your heart and mind. Then pray this simple prayer, “Spirit, bathe my trembling heart and brow.” Remember, you are not looking for tongues of fire, but the unmistakeable presence of God.

Spirit, thank You for coming at Pentecost. You demonstrated Your willingness to be with us then, and we believe You still want to. Help us prepare for your coming by praying and waiting like those first disciples.  In Jesus’ name. Amen!

Kindled Tuning!

Keep coming back, and we will work to help you remove the things that may hinder your longing for His return by cultivating an awareness of God’s presence. We will help you tune your heart to live out your worship by providing resources like this to help you acknowledge the greatness of God as you become more Resonant, 7 days a week.

Like what you’re finding here?  Fill out the form to the right to get an email with each fresh post and updates of new tools to help you be Resonant.

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Video 29.1 Transcript

Welcome to Tuesday Tunings at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s tune our hearts.

Hover o’er me Holy Spirit
Bathe my trembling heart and brow
Fill me with Thy hallow’d presence
Come O come and fill me now

Those first disciples experienced tongues of fire resting above each of them. This will likely not be your experience, so be careful not to long for it, and miss His presence. He wants to hover over your life. Invite Him to come and hover over you.

Spirit, come and hover over me.

When the Spirit begins to reveal Himself to us, it is an overwhelming feeling and concept, engaging both the heart and the mind. We may find ourselves trembling in His presence as He envelopes us. Ask the Spirit to bathe your heart and brow.

Spirit, bathe my trembling heart and brow.

Oh, to be filled with the fullness of God. That is what the Spirit does when He fills us. He consumes us with an awareness of the holy presence of God. He is without fault or blemish and to be filled with that perfection is life-changing. Beg for that filling today.

Spirit, fill me with Your holy presence.

It is not a demanding request, but one of desperation. It is not a command, but a gentle query. Come, and fill me now. Have you ever prayed such a prayer? “Spirit please come and fill me now.” If so, you can pray it again. If not, will you consider doing it today?

Spirit, come, o come and fill me now.

Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has surfaced in your heart, or just listen to what He is saying to you, then we will sing once more.

Sing

Take the awareness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond.  Until next time, Be Resonant.

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Standing in Christ Before the Throne

Dressed in His righteousness alone

When He shall come with trumpet sound
O may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne

The Solid Rock 1834
By: Edward Mote (1797-1874)

Listen to this modern version of this classic hymn as you prepare to ponder the lyrics. Please make certain to enjoy the podcast below.

Here is podcast content always available as part of an extensive archive of resources. We have lots of tools and options designed to help you be Resonant!  Check them out today and please consider becoming a Subscriber to support our mission of providing these tools to everyone with access to the internet!!

Everyone enjoy this podcast and transcript below!  It features meditative music and moments to contemplate the Scriptures and reflections shared.

Transcript may be found below, at the end of the blog.

As we continue our journey through this penitent text and hymn, make each stanza your own by praying through it. Let’s think about this.

Dressed Up

Getting dressed up for special occasions is fun. Having those special clothes on that you may only wear that one time immediately sets the occasion off from daily living. For instance, this time of year there are caps and gowns donned for graduation ceremonies.

When we think of getting dressed in righteousness, we approach it with this mindset. We are going to put something on. But there is obviously something more fundamentally transformative in this instance. We are not just covering one thing up with something different. This covering intrinsically changes the one who put it on.

We will put on the very righteousness of Jesus Christ. It has already transformed our standing, but in those moments the working out of our salvation complete, we will be transformed in our experience. We will still be ourselves, but we will also be fully in Jesus.

Dressed in His righteousness alone

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— Philippians 3:9 ESV

We will rejoice that day, not because of our rightness but because Jesus covered us with His righteousness. That righteousness comes through faith in Christ. Ask the Spirit to reveal if you are in Him, trusting in His righteousness alone to make you right with our Holy God.

If you have tried to live in Christ you have come to realize that you can not do it in your own strength. It is impossible. The only way to achieve that righteous living is for Christ to dress you daily in His righteousness. Even still that is only a foretaste of what is in store on the day of His return.

RESONATE!
While we look forward to the glorious day of His appearing and the righteousness we will experience that day, we long to live in it every day.  Ask the Father to clothe you with the righteousness of Christ today. Pray, “Father, clothe me with the righteousness of Christ.“

Stand Up

Faultless to stand before the throne

So other worldly will the end of all things be, when all creation will give praise to our King, it is difficult for us to fathom. When we think of standing before His throne we imagine a chair, but maybe it will be very different than what we have in mind. Just as different as being dressed in His righteousness will be from every other uniform or attire we have worn so will be that throne from every other we have ever seen.

Even still, to think of being faultless or blameless is almost inconceivable. If we are honest with ourselves we are aware of our imperfections. To think they will not simply be covered with the righteousness of Christ, but will actually be eradicated. To our deepest core, we will be without blemish. All the work of Christ.

Faultless to stand before the throne

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy… Jude 1:24ESV

If you are trusting Jesus alone then you are trusting the One who is able to help you stand before the throne because you will be dressed in His righteousness. That makes you blameless, faultless, by no merit of your own. Give Him praise for that incredible work.

Faultless. How well do you know yourself? If you have any self-awareness at all and any knowledge of who Christ is, you know the only way to be faultless is for Christ to cover all your faults. Thanks be to God that is exactly what He does, now and forever more.

RESONATE!
Take a few moments and thank Jesus for His work of making you faultless. You could never have done that yet He graciously does it for you. Pray, “Jesus, thank You for making me faultless.”

Jesus, thank You for dressing me in righteousness and making me faultless. I could never have accomplished either, yet you graciously accomplish both for me. In Jesus name. Amen.

Faultless Thinking!

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Podcast 28.4 Transcript

Welcome to Thursday Thoughts at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s think about this.

When He shall come with trumpet sound

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV

Oh what a glorious day that will be when we finally see Jesus returning for us. The sound of that trumpet will be the most awe-inspiring thing we have ever heard. Then we will look up to see the most wonderful sight we will have ever seen. Ask Jesus to help you be ready. 

O may I then in Him be found

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV

For many it will be an awful day because they will not be prepared, having built their lives on something other than the Rock of Christ. That is the only way to be certain you will be with the Lord, build your life on Him and His truths. Pray for those who are not prepared.

Dressed in His righteousness alone

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— Philippians 3:9 ESV

We will rejoice that day, not because of our rightness but because Jesus covered us with His righteousness. That righteousness comes through faith in Christ. Ask the Spirit to reveal if you are in Him, trusting in His righteousness alone to make you right with our Holy God.

Faultless to stand before the throne

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy… Jude 1:24 ESV

If you are trusting Jesus alone then you are trusting the One who is able to help you stand before the throne because you will be dressed in His righteousness. That makes you blameless, faultless, by no merit of your own. Give Him praise for that incredible work.

Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has come to your mind, or listen to what He is saying to you, then I will read our text once more, with the refrain.

When He shall come with trumpet sound
O may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne

Take the mindfulness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond.  Until next time, Be Resonant.

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