Friday Writings in WFM.......3/25/16

Friday Writings in WFM.......3/25/16

Good morning and welcome to Women's Focus Ministries

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Names of God

Jehovah
Lord

This is my name forever,
The name you shall call Me
from generation to generation.
Exodus 3:15

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Friday Devotional

In the beginning was the Word,

 and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him;

and without him was not

any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life

was the light of men.

John 1 1-4
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"The Word" in this passage is translated from the Greek logos, which means "spokesman," "word," or "revelatory thought." It is a name there used for an individual Personage. But who or what is this Logos? Notice the explanation in verse 14: 

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,

(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)

full of grace and truth."

When he was born as Jesus Christ, he was flesh and blood, materialistic, and could be seen, touched, and felt. But what was he? As God—as the Logos? That is answered in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit," and spirit is invisible. We know what was his form and shape as the human Jesus. But of what form and shape was He as the Word? 

The Word, then, is a Personage who was made flesh—begotten by God, who through this later begetter became his Father. Yet at that prehistoric time of the first verse of John 1, the Word was not (yet) the Son of God. He divested himself of his glory as a Spirit divinity to be begotten as a human person. He was made God's Son, through being begotten or sired by God and born of the virgin Mary.

So here we find revealed originally two Personages. One is God. And with God in that prehistoric time was another Personage who also was God—one who later was begotten and born as Jesus Christ. But these two Personages were spirit, which is invisible to human eyes unless supernaturally manifested. Yet, at the time described in verse one, Jesus was not the Son of God, and God was not His Father.

Shared by 

Corinne Mustafa

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What Size Is God?

Max Lucado
God's Roadmap For New Beginnings
Let The Journey Begin

What is impossible with man is possible with God. (Matt. 19:26)

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is His resume. The universe is His calling card. You want to know who God is? See what He had done. You want to know His power? Take a look at His creation. Curious about His strength? Pay a visit to His home address: 1 Billion Starry Sky Avenue.....

He is untainted by the atmosphere of sin. Unbridled by the time line of history. Unhindered by the weariness of the body.

What controls you doesn't control Him. What troubles you doesn't trouble Him. What fatigues you doesn't fatigue Him. Is an eagle disturbed by traffic? No. He rises above it. Is the whale perturbed by a hurricane? Of course not, he plunges beneath it. Is the lion flustered by the mouse standing directly in his way? No. He steps over it.

How much more is God able to soar above, plunge beneath, and step over the troubles of the earth!

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Prayers are lifted up daily for 

you by the Devotional Writers 

and the Monthly Writing Staff

of Women's Focus Ministries.

Thank you Jesus 

for what  you did for us
on Good Friday