10 Jan “So That You May Know Him Better”
Pastor Vincent - 24 October 2013
Pray To Receive Transcending Power
Do you like to pray? Are you always bringing your problems and heart's most concerned to God, wanting to receive answers from Him? Do you often find that the spirit remains unchanged even after praying, and you find it pointless to continue praying? Actually, we often pray with the wrong focus and according to how we feel. Man is created by God and only when we meditate on the Words that gives life that we will experience transformation in the spirit. Prayer has to start from the truth, and only when you look into the words can you receive answers in life. And a person who enjoys prayer (communion with God) is truly one who does not pray out of habits but rather, she wakes up each day realizing that she needs to pray for she needs God. This is humility - her spirit is teachable, she hears the loving voice of God and she learns to trust God and follow His guidance. Word and prayer go hand in hand, know the word and in your prayers, confirm the word until it becomes your second nature - when the word is in your sub-consciousness, you are in a state of continued prayer. Man is created by God and only when we meditate on the Words that gives life that we will experience transformation in the spirit. Prayer has to start from the truth, and only when you look into the words can you receive answers in life. And a person who enjoys prayer (communion with God) is truly one who does not pray out of habits but rather, she wakes up each day realizing that she needs to pray for she needs God. This is humility - her spirit is teachable, she hears the loving voice of God and she learns to trust God and follow His guidance. May the Lord give us breakthrough in our prayer life.
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<Eph 1:15-17>: 15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Theology
1) Meaning:
* Suffix: logy (Thought, Word, Study, or Logic)
* Theo: God
* Theology: Thought/Word/Study/Logic of GOD
2) Theology is needed because there is NO WAY to use our common understanding to comprehend God.
3) The knowledge of God, also encompasses all the knowledges that is in Him.
* Theology (i.e. the study of God) is the Queen of all sciences. ~ Thomas Aquinas
* Theology must be studied with the lens where the God of the Bible is the creator of all sciences.
Systematic Theology
* Generally, people dislike the word: “Systematic”.
* Post-modern Era and liberal culture work against systematic study of things.
* Legitimate concern: Forcing and squeezing the Bible into a preconceived system?
* 3 important assumptions of Systematic Theology
1) God has revealed Himself through the writings of the Prophets and the Apostles (i.e. the Bible).
2) God is not confused, but reveal Himself in intelligible way to the human mind.
3) God reveal Himself with the following qualities:
* Unity
* Coherency
* Consistency
* Systematic Theology brings together all parts of the bible, and fits them together in unity, coherency and consistency.
* Equip us with the know-how to draw from all sources, and esp credible ones.
* Train us to make good discernment of what are the erroneous and credible teachings.
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