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This is titled part one because we are going to go through this title for a while with various subtitles (the subtitle for this is “31 Attributes of God”). The purpose of this is give you a better understanding of God. We hope that this would in some way cause you to be captivated by the nature of God and it would encourage you to seek to develop a deeper understanding of and a reverent fear of God (After all the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom ..Proverbs 9:10).

Below are 31 Attributes of God, if you chose to you could memorise one each day, you would know 31 Attributes of God in a month.

Memorising portions of scripture is Good for your soul, Psalm 119:11 says “Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” (How can it be in your heart if it’s not in your head ? I would be interested to see the answers you guys give to this ) Comment below if you’re up for the challenge of memorising these, one a day isn’t that hard, you could simply write it on a piece of paper and look at it periodically through the day.

I know you’re all extremely intelligent so it should be a breeze. You can chose to subscribe to our mailing list to see what part two of these series would be on or you could just check back regularly (I trust most of you do that anyway ). We pray that you would really get a deeper understanding of who God is through what we would be sharing with you during the coming weeks…Have fun

these attributes where gotten from  Journal Junkies.

1. God is accessible: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

2. God is approachable: Come near to God and he will come near to you. (James 4:8)

3. God is compassionate: The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. (Psalm 145:9)

4. God is divine: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. (Romans 1:20)

5. God is eternal: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8)

6. God is faithful: For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. (Psalm 100:5)

7. God is fatherly: Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? (Hebrews 12:17)

8. God is flawless: Every word of God is flawless. (Psalm 30:5)

9. God is friendly: “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. (James 2:23)

10. God is giving: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

11. God is good: Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Psalm 34:8)

12. God is gracious: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace. (Romans 3:23,24)

13. God is great: I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods. (Psalm 135:5)

14. God is holy: They were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory”. (Isaiah 6:3)

15. God is impartial: For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. (Deuteronomy 10:17)

16. God is Jealous: Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. (Exodus 34:14)

17. God is just: He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. (Deuteronomy 32:4)

18. God is light: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5)

19. God is love: But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8)

20. God is merciful: Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6:36)

21. God is omnipresent: Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? (Psalm 139:7)

22. God is perfect: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48)

23. God is personal: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)

24. God is powerful: Summon your power, O God; show us your strength, O God, as you have done before. (Psalm 68:28)

25. God is righteous: The LORD our God is righteous in everything he does. (Daniel 9:14)

26. God is sovereign: How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with – our own ears. (2 Samuel 7:22)

27. God is steadfast: He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. (Psalm 62:2)

28. God is true: God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? – Does he promise and not fulfil? (Numbers 23:19)

29. God is unchangeable: “I the LORD do not change.” (Malachi 3:6)

30. God is unequalled: “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. (Isaiah 40:25)

31. God is victorious: “He will swallow up death for ever.” (Isaiah 25:8)

All You Need is A Glimpse of God!

God Bless,

Fred.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Once upon a time, there was a man who looked upon Christmas as a lot of humbug.

He wasn’t a Scrooge. He was a very kind and decent person, generous to his family, upright in all his dealings with other men. But he didn’t believe all that stuff about an incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas. And he was too honest to pretend that he did.

“I am truly sorry to distress you,” he told his wife, who was a faithful churchgoer, “but I simply cannot understand this claim that God became man. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”

On Christmas Eve, his wife and children went to church for the midnight service. He declined to accompany them. “I’d feel like a hypocrite,” he explained. “I’d much rather stay at home. But I’ll wait up for you.”

Shortly after his family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window and watched the flurries getting heavier and heavier.

“If we must have a Christmas,” he reflected, “it’s nice to have a white one.”

He went back to his chair by the fireside and began to read his newspaper. A few minutes later, he was startled by a thudding sound. It was quickly followed by another, then another. He thought that someone must be throwing snow balls at his living room window.

When he went to the front door to investigate, he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They had been caught in the storm, and in a desperate search for shelter had tried to fly through his window.

I can’t let those poor creatures lie there and freeze, he thought. But how can I help them?

Then he remembered the barn where the children’s pony was stabled. It would provide a warm shelter. He quickly put on his coat and galoshes and tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on the light. But the birds didn’t come in.

Food will bring them in, he thought. So he hurried back to the house for bread crumbs, which he sprinkled on the snow to make a trail into the barn. To his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs and continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around and waving his arms. They scattered in every direction – except into the warm, lighted barn.

“They find me a strange and terrifying creature,” he said to himself, “and I can’t seem to think of any way to let them know they can trust me. If only I could be a bird myself for a few minutes, perhaps I could lead them to safety.”

Just at that moment, the church bells began to ring. He stood silently for a while, listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. Then he sank to his knees in the snow.

“Now I understand,” he whispered. “Now I see why you had to do it.”

NB: I must thank my friend adam for sharing this with me, and I hope its blessed you and shown you our fathers great love for us. His website is christintech.org

Super Quick Devotion – Daily Help : Charles Spurgeon

O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfill his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Full many there be who have been tried till at last they have been driven to exercise faith in God, and the moment of their faith has been the instant of their deliverance.

‘Who are you ?’

It’s a question I ask a lot of people, the normal reply is that the person being questioned states their name, for example if the individuals name was Martin, the individual would say my name is martin. Then a further question follows, ‘who is martin?’ and then what I find is that the individual becomes a bit stuck in answering that question, however looking into the question a bit deeper, defining who a person is ultimately means considering the characteristics that make up the person, such as looks, character, dress code, language, ethnicity, sex, age e.t.c.

Looking at these factors, only a little number of them are beyond the individuals control, i.e. age, sex and ethnicity, everything else is subject to change, a fact to keep in mind is that the factors that are beyond our control are entities that are not distinct to any individual i.e. there are a lot of males and females; this means it does not specify who you are but simply put’s you in a category!

Moving on, when you consider the other factors you see that they are factors that are really moulded by your environment , for example, a person who has been brought up in France would speak French, dress like a French man, eat French food, and have the ethnic values of a French person. If charactersitics are the things that makes you yourself, does this say that the environment a person grows up in ultimately makes him who he/she is? If this has such a powerful effect in determining who the person is, how then can they say they know who they are, because in actual fact who they are is simply what the environment has made them?

If the person grew up in a different place, and they spoke different, ate different, behaved differently and lived a different life style, then they would be a totally different person! How then does a person look at themself and search deep within and say this is who I am, regardless of where I have grown up I would still be this same person? I asked myself this questions years ago, and then I started to search deep within me to discover who I was, and then I met some one called Jesus. He taught me a lot of things, including the inability for a man to live a life free from sin, i.e lies, lust, hate e.t.c and this bothered me also. I thought to myself, ‘if a person can not live a life without these things even if he choses to then this is a problem because it simply means man has no control over these things’. Because of that, it has been accepted as fine, and has been included in who a man is! At this point I said in my heart ‘If there is a God and there is a heaven and a hell, how can a person who:

1 – Does not know who he is

2 – Tells lies so i a liar

3 – Hates (according to the bible if you hate you have committed murder)

get into heaven?’.

I really wondered how a person who is a liar, a thief, a murderer in his heart and does not even know who he really is get into a place for holy and righteous people called heaven! I realised that if there was a heaven, it was humanly impossible to get into it. Another question that bothered me hugely was ‘how can a person really know who he is?’

Someone told me about Jesus! And he said Jesus paid the price for my sins and if I accepted him as my saviour I would be included in the bunch he died for. Then I got told that he was God’s son and that God knew things that worried my heart, which is the inability for man to live without sin! And so he sent Jesus (Yeshua meaning salvation or saviour) as a sacrifice to pay for all the sins that we have committed and all the sins we are going to commit, and this was a way to get to heaven.

I also learned that when he paid on the cross for our sins he left his spirit which dwells in us upon request giving us the ability to conquer sin and live free from being ruled by this thing described by the bible as sin! This can also help us to discover who we really are, and today I stand hand on heart and admit that I really did think I knew who I was, I would argue about it day and night, but that was just natural pride and now I really know who I am and I thank God for showing me who I really am.

Why don’t you ask God to show you who you really are? Or are you going to be stubborn like I was and go on pretending you know who you are just because things are good? Come on! Drop the pride and come to Jesus so he can show you who you are and most importantly save you from this thing that rules human beings called sin!

Thanks for reading.