VACATION AT LAST!

We're leaving tomorrow for Newport, Oregon, for a granddaughter's wedding. Rex just parked the motor home in front of the house, ready to load up in the morning. We'll return a week from tomorrow. I'll have my laptop with me but don't know if the RV resorts where we'll stay will have computer hookups. I won't have my scrapbooks with me, anyway. So no more blogs till Aug. 18th or so.

However, Rex and I very unexpectedly read something in our devotions last night I want to share -- sort of a "wind up" of what we've been discussing recently about who we are in Christ and about making a positive confession. So I'm going to quote some thoughts from E. W. Kenyon's book, "In His Presence", a book about prayer. In case you're not familiar with this author, he lived in the early 1900's and had a Methodist and Baptist background. Some of his mentors include the great missionary Adoniram Judson, A. J. Maxwell, and Andrew Murray with whom you're no doubt familiar.

Kenyon says, "One cannot conceive of anything that will cripple faith and put the believer in bondage more quickly and surely than underestimating what He (Christ) is, and what we are in Him."

"We should meditate on the fact that we are partakers of the divine nature. I John 5:13"

"If we say over and over again to our hearts: 'I am a partaker of God's very nature. I have in me His faith nature. This makes me a child of faith. I have been begotten of the Living Word through the Holy Spirit. The real me was recreated in Christ. I have the very nature of the Father and the Father is love, so I have in me the love nature of the Father'."

"Repeat it over and over again. Hold it as a constant affirmation before your mind that you are what He says you are; that you are a partaker of His very nature as He has declared."

It no doubt seems that I have been going overboard on this subject of who we are in Christ, and you're probably getting tired of hearing it. But it's such an important concept and so seldom taught, that I just can't emphasize it enough! Copy that above paragraph of affirmation on a 3 x 5 card, carry it with you constantly, affirm it many times a day and see how it strengthens your faith!

And with that ends our discussions about who we are in Christ! Our next blogs will go on to other topics.

Preacher's Kid