Thoughts for Consideration
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When God makes His approach to us He is expecting us to do something, God expects us to move toward Him. It is not God’s intentions for us to draw away from His draw and touch in our life. His desire is to give His children good gifts. To accomplish His work in our lives He has put a desire in us to want to know Him. “Deep calleth unto deep at the noise Your spouts; all Your waves and billows have gone over me.” (Psalm 42:7) God has placed a deep call within man a desire to know and become like Him. A deep and continual call into the unsearchable areas of our heart. Without this desire in us what reason would man have to want to know God? Due to the disobedience of Adam man has no desire to know God. Adam hide in the bushes when God called to him and today man is still hiding from God, but like Adam man cannot hide. Jeremiah 19:9 tells us, “man’s heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” Now when God says “all things” God means all things, not some things or a few things. God means what He says. Of “all things” that are in man’s heart being “deceitful” or intentionally lying and misleading is the greatest of things. The word “desperately” means there is no hope of changing. Without God there is no hope only God can change our heart. Without God, man is deceitful and hopeless. But when we answer His call that reaches deep into our heart and soul we began to humble ourselves before God and then we began to have hope. We will never be able to have hope for things in God unless we humble ourselves. We will never be able to behold God’s glory unless we humble ourselves before Him and man. We will not be able to see Him. Moses could see He who was invisible because he was a gentle and humble man, the most humblest (Numbers 12:3) according to God. Moses saw God, walked and talked with Him. Moses even had God physically touch him. “So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away MY hand and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:22-23) Most Believers do not see God because they are not humble. James 4:6 tell us, “God resist the proud but gives grace (or salvation) to the humble.” Most Believers do not receive grace because they are not humble. Unless we humble ourselves we will never see and receive from God, we will never behold God’s glory. Prayer: Oh God work in our heart so that we may be humble before You.
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When I think of the depth of this book my teacher and mentor Charles Haun comes to mind. As we would move from duty station to duty station, Charles would find time to stop and spend time with us. When he would open up the word of God at our family devotions or at the church we were attending, “Did not our heart burn within us . . ” (Luke 24:32). I will never forget our last conversation. I could hear his failing health in his voice. So I asked if he had any words of wisdom for me. He kind of paused and said, “Just give them Jesus and your will do fine.” And then he said, “Just go along for the ride, I love you” then hung up. Well now, I thought I understood his words that day, but 12 years later I am just now coming to realize the impact of his word in my life and ministry. You know we can work and do all for God and never know Him. How could this be? In God is not what we have done that counts, but how we do things. What is our intentions and motives? When we allow God to work this process of the word in us, whereby we come to know Him, we also come to the realization our good works cannot save us. It is these “Thoughts (along the process mentioned in this book) for Consideration” we get to come to know God. It is these “thoughts” that is the heart and life of God to us and the world. Take heart and take heed the road is long, not for the faint, courage is required and most of all obedience and integrity will be the measure of success or failure.
About the Author
There is within us a call to places we do not know and an insatiable hunger to know God and His ways. This book is one answer along the way of His call. Ordained, the author is the Founder of Beholding His Glory, an international Bible teaching ministry and was senior Pastor of Christliche Gemeinde Stuttgart a Spirit-filled, international, non-denominational church located in a small town outside the city of Stuttgart, Germany. Pastor Dave has ministered on four continents and in many foreign lands including: England, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Moldova, Ukraine, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, and India to name only a few. In August 2000, Pastor Dave retired at the rank of Lieutenant Commander from the United States Navy. His career spanned over 24 years from E2 to 04. He proudly served as a Hospital Corpsman in Naval Hospitals working in clinics, dispensaries, the operating room, and with the United States Marine Corps deployed in combat and ashore. As an Officer he served as a Joint Medical Planner in the Medical Service Corps also deployed in combat and ashore at many Service and Joint Headquarters. His formal educational background includes; receiving a Bachelors of Science from Southern Illinois University in Hospital Management in 1987 and a Masters of Science in Human Resource Management from Golden Gate University in 1993. He is married to his “sweet heart” the former Karen Marie Kreiss from Dunellen, NJ. They have four children: David, Daniel, Constance, Joshua, and three grandchildren: Abigail, Caleb, and John. The one thing most important to know about the author is he loves God and his family with all of his heart, mind, and spirit. Everything else is secondary.