PRIDE AND PRESUMPTION
According to James, planning and leaving God out of it is not only presumptuous, it is evil. Deference to God in all our ways is deterrence to pride and presumption.
According to James, planning and leaving God out of it is not only presumptuous, it is evil. Deference to God in all our ways is deterrence to pride and presumption.
Genuine legacy comes not by seeking one for ourselves, but by promoting a cause larger than us. More specifically, an abiding legacy comes from God.
As we look into the scriptures, we notice that those who are anxious would press the panic button thereby complicating their situations.
However, the throne is not only known or described as the throne of grace, it is also the throne of His holiness.
Paul made it clear that the power present in believers is the exact one that God the Father exercised in raising Him from the dead.
Every purpose requires power to drive it. A purpose without the requisite power is dead on arrival.
Nothing gets accomplished until it is first purposed by someone. In other words, no purpose no progress.
There is nothing to suggest that New Testament priests are to do anything less than bless people. Believers ought to be agent of blessing to one another and to their world.
There is something like a glue that held all these together, and that was God’s presence in his endeavours. No doubt, he posted an incredible profile; but they would be inconclusive and inconsequential had God not been on his side.
The ladder in Jacob’s vision had its base on the earth and the top of it reached the heaven. Angels were seen ascending and descending on it. The ladder was supernatural, because no ingenuity of man could produce that feat.