God is With You
God is With You
"Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." Zechariah 8:23
On this day, October 5, in the Year of our Lord 1703, Jonathan Edwards was born to the Reverend and Mrs. Timothy Edwards. The young Jonathan quickly distinguished himself as a child prodigy, learning to read Latin by the age of six and writing remarkable treatises on insects, botany and science by the age of eleven. He earned his master’s degree at Yale in 1722, and would go on to be one of the greatest revivalists and Christian theologians in North America.
At age seventeen, he encountered the manifest presence of Christ. God’s holiness would be revealed to him as “a ravishing, divine beauty.” “[I wish] to lie low before Christ, as in the dust, that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child.”
In 1734, the manifest presence of Christ flooded his local church, and by the spring of 1734, he saw thirty-plus sudden and remarkable conversions each week. He kept a careful written record in A Faithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God (1734), and later he wrote his masterpiece, Treatise on Religious Affections (1746).
Today, take time in prayer to redig revival wells.
Father God, today, I want your manifest presence to be so conspicuously with us that people will take hold of me and say to me, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” Lord, do it again today!
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
"Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." Zechariah 8:23
On this day, October 5, in the Year of our Lord 1703, Jonathan Edwards was born to the Reverend and Mrs. Timothy Edwards. The young Jonathan quickly distinguished himself as a child prodigy, learning to read Latin by the age of six and writing remarkable treatises on insects, botany and science by the age of eleven. He earned his master’s degree at Yale in 1722, and would go on to be one of the greatest revivalists and Christian theologians in North America.
At age seventeen, he encountered the manifest presence of Christ. God’s holiness would be revealed to him as “a ravishing, divine beauty.” “[I wish] to lie low before Christ, as in the dust, that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child.”
In 1734, the manifest presence of Christ flooded his local church, and by the spring of 1734, he saw thirty-plus sudden and remarkable conversions each week. He kept a careful written record in A Faithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God (1734), and later he wrote his masterpiece, Treatise on Religious Affections (1746).
Today, take time in prayer to redig revival wells.
Father God, today, I want your manifest presence to be so conspicuously with us that people will take hold of me and say to me, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” Lord, do it again today!
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
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