Love you all, praying for you.
PRISM just keeps amazing me. I just love when God lets you see something you’ve never quite seen before. He alters your perspective with His Word. He upsets the apple cart of your assumptions, changes how you view things. That’s what God does through your PRISM time – those five things you can do every day in His Word - He changes you! To change you - He first changes your mind. Psalms 118:19 – Open for me the gates of righteousness, I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter. I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation. The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the LORD has made let us rejoice and be glad in it. What a full passage. David is saying – I’m going to do this, you should do this too – let’s go! God’s Word always changes our perspective and in the same breath – invites us to change our behavior, our habits, so He can give the results – that we need, that He longs to give us. He wants to be our salvation – not just forever, but in this life right now - today. Open for me the gates of righteousness. I always thought righteousness was an impossible standard to achieve or maintain – as if the gates of a city are the final destination. But righteousness isn’t something to attain – it’s something to transition through to get to what’s inside! When you enter His gates – His righteousness- you enter God’s presence and His plans for you – you get to where He is – you get to hear what He says – what’s on His heart to do – and what’s in His heart for you. And everywhere He is – is every good thing you could ever want or need. In His gates, under His protection, in His house, where unending truth, love and blessing flows. Open for me… God is the one who opens the gates of righteousness. This is PRISM – when He reveals truth for you to walk in through His Word – He’s opening the gates of righteousness for you! You now have a choice – enter in, or stay on the outside; accept, or decline. Every time you enter His gates of righteousness – with thanksgiving and praise – you’re on the inside – where He is. If you choose unrighteousness – you choose to exit the gates – of His presence and His blessing. If you choose sin or disobedience, you leave. But inside those gates – it’s a different city, a different kingdom, a different kind of people live there – praisers and obeyers – the best people to be around anyway! Inside those gates, it’s a different economy, a different lifestyle. When the Queen of Sheba visited Solomon she noticed it - “How happy your servants must be.” Inside the gates of righteousness is where the blessed are, the favored of the LORD are... What is righteousness? I John 3:7 - Dear children, let no-one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. Righteousness is right standing with God through Jesus - and also right doing. Doing what He says is right, not what the world says is right. The gates of Righteousness that He opens through His Word – it’s the invitation to enter. And you enter with Praise and Thanksgiving. Why because every time you obey what He says – it automatically results in Praise. The more you obey, the more He does, and you can’t help but praise. Praying that you would see righteousness not as an impossible standard, but an invitation – the gates to His presence where everything good awaits you. We are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus – not because of what we do, but because of what He did for us - that's the right standing - of righteousness. See the Relationship Topic - Salvation First. But when God opens through PRISM - His Word - those gates of righteousness – He shows us the next step - that's the right doing - of righteousness. It’s not a standard to reach – it’s a gate to enter. Praying that PRISM will open the gates for you – that PiVAT will let you enter that next step He tells you - with praise! Praying that you would overcome every day in your Daily Call. The City Gates are where the wise, the accomplished, the humble and successful - the persons of renown gather - inside those gates – the gates of righteousness – they are the praisers and the obeyers. They are the one with whom God wants you to overcome with daily. Praying that God will keep you in those gates – in the place where He is – and the place where He can give you all the good that He has stored up for you. Love you all, dad
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