Touched By God Ministry

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Thursday, July 01, 2004
A Place For The Lord

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produced by "Touched By God Ministry"





"News about Jesus spread fast, and crowds of people were coming to hear Him
teach and to be healed of their sicknesses: but Jesus often withdrew to lonely
places and prayed" (Luke 5:15,16).

Many of us share a remarkable testimony. I have spoken with several who can
confirm my own experience. It is this: while sitting or standing within the
church service many of us have had the sense that Jesus is quite lonely, in
spite of all the praise, worship, and things which are done in His Name. I
recently found a book published nearly twenty years ago in which the author
claims to have experienced the same feeling. It is as if Jesus is on the outside
looking in. After much prayer we have come to understand that most of what is
done in the name of "church" is not for the Lord at all, but it is for us.

Perhaps this explains why Jesus often withdrew Himself to a lonely place, and
why perhaps He is withdrawing Himself from much of what is being done "in His
Name". If someone asks why we do not participate more often in meetings or in
gatherings, all we can say is that, most of the time, the Lord's Need is not
being met in those places.

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THE REMNANT PRINCIPLE - 4
by Chip Brogden

http://www.watchman.net/articles/daniel4.html

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"He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself" (Philippians 3:21b).

What a mighty God we serve! Exactly how the Lord goes about bringing all things
into submission unto Himself is... how can we describe it? It is an art. It is a
science. There is a process at work in this universe. Do you see it? It is a
process through which the Lord is continually refining, purging, molding,
chastening, disciplining, judging, and conforming all things. This process is
working itself out on every level, from galaxies, to nations, to the innermost
recesses of the souls of men, right down to the very last disciple and sinner.

Throw yourself onto the Rock and be broken; or wait for it to fall on you and be
ground into powder (cf. Luke 20:18, Daniel 2:34,35). Either way, sooner or
later, the Rock w

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