Augustine said: “Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” When Jesus commanded us to ask in faith, He also gave us an invitation — an invitation to draw near to the Faithful One.
Did you know that the cumulative weight of something as small as a cell-phone carried for 100 miles would add up to 70,000 pounds? This puts a whole new perspective on “setting aside every weight” in order to run the race set before us! We are thrilled to have ultramarathoner Arlen Glick join us on this delightful episode.
As we allow God’s Word to renew our minds and change our hearts, our “temples” are cleansed. As we allow Him to deal with anything that would hinder us, we will begin to live and operate as houses of prayer!
Why did Jesus come in and so abruptly cleanse the Temple? Jesus came in to cleansed out the things that were in competition with God’s purpose for the Temple.
What is a house of prayer? It is a place of fellowship, communication and intimacy with God. God desired that His physical temple be a place of communion with Himself, a place where He could fellowship with man.
There are some beautiful parallels between God’s temple in Jerusalem and His temple within the heart and life of every believer. God’s heart for every believer is that they become a temple in which He dwells — where communion between God and man takes place!
Not only did Jesus Christ humble Himself to take on humanity, but He went beyond that and “took upon Him the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:7).
Have you noticed how easy it is to serve with a motivation to be accepted or recognized by others? This is something we need to watch out for and ask God to purify us from.