![the four characteristics of our meeting on the genuine ground of oneness [in the picture: Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. John 17:17]](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/john-17-17-sanctify-in-truth1.jpg?fit=300%2C195&ssl=1)
In the Old Testament God has specifically chosen a place where His people would worship Him, and He designed a specific way for the people of Israel to come to Him. He even interdicted them to worship Him with His offerings wherever they wanted – in Deut. 12:5 we see that God chose a place […]
Father, Your name be sanctified! Your kingdom come and Your will be done!
June 11, 2012 by 4 Comments
This week we are getting into the matter of Taking the Lead to be a Man of Prayer. The Lord Jesus was a Man of Prayer – He was not just a praying person, but He was a Man of Prayer. The example of prayer given as a pattern by the Lord Jesus increases our […]
to love the Lord with the first love is to repent and do the first works
May 16, 2012 by 2 Comments
What does it mean to love the Lord with the first love? What does it mean to give the Lord the preeminence in all things? What does it mean to give the Lord the first place? When we first see the Lord and are captured by His beauty, we love Him with the first love. […]
offering up a sacrifice of praise to God through Christ and with Christ
May 12, 2012 by 4 Comments
What does it mean to praise the Lord? Does it mean to simply say it? Does it mean that only in the meetings of the church we raise our voices and we say, Praise God? This morning I was encouraged to see further than to worship God and to praise God means to simply present […]
the principle of praise and the four levels of praise in our experience
May 8, 2012 by 4 Comments
The first mention of a certain matter in the Bible sets the principle of that matter for the whole Bible. The first major mentioning of praising the Lord in the Bible is in Exo. 15:1-18 where the people of Israel, after crossing the Red Sea and seeing Pharaoh and his armies being swallowed by the […]
seeing the preciousness of Zion and Jerusalem, and fully trusting in the Lord
April 19, 2012 by 7 Comments
There is a specific group of Psalms – from 120 to 134 – that is called, Songs of Ascents. These do not speak of the law but they relate to the matter of captivity. The law brings you to captivity if you try to keep it in yourself with your own strength; the people of […]
this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!
April 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Praise the Lord – this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it (Psa. 118:24)! This day is none other than the resurrection day, the Lord’s day, the day on which Christ resurrected and was set by God as the cornerstone for God’s building (Acts 20:7; 1 […]
![Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers. Rom. 8:29](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Because-those-whom-He-foreknew-He-also-predestinated-to-be-conformed-to-the-image-of-His-Son-that-He-might-be-the-Firstborn-among-many-brothers-3.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
![That God has fully fulfilled this [promise] to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, "You are My Son; this day have I begotten You. Acts 13:33](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/That-God-has-fully-fulfilled-this-promise-to-us-their-children-in-raising-up-Jesus-as-it-is-also-written-in-the-second-Psalm-You-are-My-Son-this-day-have-I-begotten-You.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
