The Blessings of the Lord For the Worshiper

We have many visitors during the night, the reason I did not have many posts this week. 

Do you know what I meant visitors? 

They are the white small moths came from the rice field that enter into our house when the light is on. They can find a whole where they can enter in. 

The tiny hairs of these butterflies are falling while they are flying and very itchy into our skin and I am very allergic with it. That is why it was early in the evening to sleep. 

My wife today bought screen for the windows so that these tiny creatures cannot enter in our house.

The mother of one of the Pastors here in our town has been to be with the Lord and they need our prayers. The schedule of the burial will be on October 18, 2014.   Please pray for the finances and God's sustaining grace for this family.

Today we have our Chaplaincy meeting with all Values Formation Officers and  we will discuss our present task in every Barangay/village. 

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Originally written by Pastor Alberto Rendon - Copyright © 2014

Abraham Was Blessed By the Lord In All Things

The message I shared last Sunday was very interesting because it speaks of our faith in God and in his word that brings God's blessings into our lives. 

Genesis 24:1  "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things."

According to our text that Abraham was very old already and yet he was blessed in all things. This is what we want to see in our lives, that even when we are old enough we will experience God's fullness blessings. But how could we have that? 

The principle in the life of Abraham, I believe is the same principle that will work for us today, because according to the Bible that Abraham walked by faith and we are also told in the Bible that we are to walk by faith. 

Let's find out the secret of Abraham how he was blessed even he was in his old age.  If we will look deeper into the life of Abraham we will see that he was as worshiper of God. From place to place he built an altar to worship God. He has that heart for God and because of that he longs to worship God. 

To worship God is giving God the honor of everything we have received. It is not just to thank God only, but to give Him the credit in everything we have,  acknowledging that without Him we are nothing.  

The Bible says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. " James 1:17

We also find out that Abraham was obedient to his God. But his obedience is not that of respect only, but it was the result of his intimacy with God. Many of us our obedience is the result of respect which sometimes does not come from the heart. Obedience that comes from intimacy is another thing from the obedience that comes from respect. 




The Word Of God In Worship

True worship involves fellowship between God and you. It is the given time to give God the honor and credit due to His name and a time to listen from Him of what he is saying. It is the time that we meditate on the goodness of God and His precious word.  That is what God said to Joshua to meditate his word day and night. That could be done during worship. 

The secret of obedience that comes from the heart is intimacy with God. This is what it means walking by faith. In the time of Abraham, there was no law written as their guide to obey God. Abraham has no law to follow, however the Bible says Abraham obeyed God. Where does he get the guide to obey God? It was not from the written law of God, but he got it from his intimacy with God. 

Worship is an outward appearance of intimacy with God, it is a way of coming closer to God, the more we worship God, the more we become closer to Him. Then that is the time that you get God's guidance for you to do. That's how Abraham live in his life until his death, he was closed with God. He was closed to the source of blessings and no wonder he got God's blessings even in his very old age. 

When we worship God, He will use His written words the Bible to remind us of His will as our guide to walk with Him in our daily life if we choose to walk by faith.  And when we are in His presence during our worship we can be blessed with His word that gives us the fresh Rhema Words or spoken words as our direction. Then when we obey those spoken words that's the time the all blessings will follow. That's how the life of Abraham was.

The fact, there was no Bible in the time of Abraham nor a written word of God for Him that time, it was a personal spoken words of God that He heard and he obeyed by faith. Then and there he was out of anything that would destroy his life and even the blessings he has, that's the reason that in his very old age he was blessed abundantly. In other words Abraham was safe with his family because he  chose to listened to God and decided to obey God to direct his life. All of these were revealed through his intimacy with God. And the key is worship.

The Private Worship

Abraham used to worship God alone. He has a private worship to his creator. 

Today average of the believers are used to gather together for worship once a week and this is what we should do. There is a public worship as well as there should be a private worship. And I hope every Christian should learn to worship God privately. 




The public worship has a limitation because it depends to the worship leader, while the private worship has no limit that when you are used to worship God privately, you will enjoy the sweet intimacy with God. And this is the best place and time to worship God - the private worship. This is what Abraham used to be.

The public worship is awesome where we have the fellowship with the brethren, but we know that it has a limitation it is because public worship is more on celebration and is not so much in adoration.  Public worship is controlled by program while private worship is controlled by your heart.  Once we have the heart for God we will really long to worship God and most of the time in private. That is what Abraham did, it is because he has the heart for God. 

Those who have the heart for God is always thirsty for His presence and hungry for His word.  Unless we have the heart for God, worship is not important in our life, to be with God in his holy presence in worship is not so much important, to meditate God's word is not our priority. The reason why we do not seek God first, because we think that He is not important in our life. 

When we have made God as our first need in our life it is the starting point to have the heart for Him. God is the treasure that we ever need. Jesus said, where your treasure is there your heart will be also.  Abraham made God his treasure, the reason that God is always in his mind and wherever he went he built an altar to worship God.