Post by Les Brewer on Dec 19, 2023 19:47:33 GMT
*_THE LORD IS MY PORTION; THE GREATEST OF ALL THINGS!!!_*
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
— Lamentations 3:24.
Looking at the scriptures, God's principle of making a man succeed and to become prosperous is His divine Presence with that man. The call of God and succeeding in ministry actually begins and ends with these words; "I will be with you" from the Lord God Almighty Himself.
Joseph was a prosperous man according to scriptures not because of his physical possession as at then, in fact this report was in his earlier days as a slave in Egypt where he has nothing because even his coat of divers colours was taken away, his prosperity was the divine presence with him(Gen.39:2).
Moses refused to move an inch without the divine presence of the Lord. Even the presence of an angel would not suffice Moses but tarried until he secured the divine presence of God (Exod.33:14-17).
My soul making the Lord my portion and having His divine Presence is very important and critical for me at the moment where some of the fathers of faith have departed from possessing the divine presence to physical possession, where we have the competition of who is the wealthiest man of God than the carrier of grace and divine presence.
The Lord is my portion is the goal! It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant, but Jehovah Himself.
He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him for ours; if your heart cry is also to have Him as your portion. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing—
“Lov'd of my God for Him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of Him ere time began,
I choose Him in return.”
The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all- sufficient for us. It is not easy to satisfy man’s desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the horse-leech in his heart cries, “Give, give.” But all that we can wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, “Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.” Well may we “delight ourselves in the Lord” who makes us to drink of the river of His pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling-place. “The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage.” Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, “We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”
For "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."
May we receive grace to wait upon the Lord and make Him our portion forever!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
— Lamentations 3:24.
Looking at the scriptures, God's principle of making a man succeed and to become prosperous is His divine Presence with that man. The call of God and succeeding in ministry actually begins and ends with these words; "I will be with you" from the Lord God Almighty Himself.
Joseph was a prosperous man according to scriptures not because of his physical possession as at then, in fact this report was in his earlier days as a slave in Egypt where he has nothing because even his coat of divers colours was taken away, his prosperity was the divine presence with him(Gen.39:2).
Moses refused to move an inch without the divine presence of the Lord. Even the presence of an angel would not suffice Moses but tarried until he secured the divine presence of God (Exod.33:14-17).
My soul making the Lord my portion and having His divine Presence is very important and critical for me at the moment where some of the fathers of faith have departed from possessing the divine presence to physical possession, where we have the competition of who is the wealthiest man of God than the carrier of grace and divine presence.
The Lord is my portion is the goal! It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant, but Jehovah Himself.
He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him for ours; if your heart cry is also to have Him as your portion. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing—
“Lov'd of my God for Him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of Him ere time began,
I choose Him in return.”
The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all- sufficient for us. It is not easy to satisfy man’s desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the horse-leech in his heart cries, “Give, give.” But all that we can wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, “Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.” Well may we “delight ourselves in the Lord” who makes us to drink of the river of His pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling-place. “The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage.” Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, “We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”
For "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."
May we receive grace to wait upon the Lord and make Him our portion forever!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
