[CS-FSLUG] NI: "Resting in an Awesome Room"

[Fred A. Miller]

Some here have recently go through some stressfull times recently. I thought 
this might help some with direction and comfort - for all of us.

Blessings,

Fred
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A WORD WITH YOU
By Ron Hutchcraft
#4889 - "Resting in an Awesome Room"
Ephesians 3:12

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        There's nothing I appreciate more than a good night's sleep, maybe 
because sleep is something I don't get a lot of. Frankly, if the bed is 
decent, I don't care too much about the surroundings. A night's sleep is a 
night's sleep and the whole time I'm asleep I don't know where I am anyway, 
right? So much for my philosophy of sleep. Apparently, some nights' sleep are 
a big deal to some people, especially if it means sleeping in the historic 
Lincoln bedroom in the White House. There's been a lot of, shall we say, 
discussion about major contributions to Presidential campaigns and those who 
have given a lot, being given the privilege to spend the night at 1600 
Pennsylvania Avenue; or as one senator called it, Motel 1600. I guess if any 
place to sleep is special, being in the White House, just down the hall and 
the President and the First Lady, that would be it. People come away from 
that experience, even rich and powerful people who have seen and done it all, 
really impressed by being in that historic, powerful place for just a night. 
I've never stayed at the White House, but wait until you hear where I just 
came from!

        I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about 
"Resting in an Awesome Room."

        Well, the friends of the President sleeping in the White House. That's 
nothing. The friends of Jesus have access to the Throne Room from which a 
hundred billion galaxies are governed! And they can rest there whenever they 
want, for as long as they want! That's where I just came from - the Throne 
Room of the living God. Actually, I joined two brothers 2,000 miles away by 
phone, and together we went into that awesome room to ask God to open some 
closed doors and move some large mountains. The access to this powerful place 
is called, of course, prayer.

        Ephesians 3:12, our word for today from the Word of God, "In Christ 
Jesus and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and 
confidence." Because Jesus removed the sin-wall between us and God on the 
cross, we who belong to Him may walk right into God's Throne Room and talk to 
Him boldly about anything.

        Paul goes on in this passage to express his awe at who he's with when 
he's praying: "I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in 
heaven and on earth derives its name." Because he focuses on the majesty of 
the God, of the person he's with, he dares to pray for God-sized things, 
culminating with this lid-blowing truth. "He is able to do immeasurably more 
than all we ask or imagine according to His power that is at work in us."

        People who have access to the White House know how special a privilege 
that is. Do you have that same feeling about prayer? When you pray, are you 
conscious of the awesome One you are with; the awesome place you are? It all 
begins in His Throne Room; it all runs right from there. So, when you come to 
God, come with amazement over this awe-inspiring God you're with. With 
expectancy that He will do God-sized things, not man-sized. By the way, 
when's the last time you trusted Him for something so big only He could do 
it? Come with specifics, too. God's told you to come to Him with specific 
requests and needs.

        Bottom line, prayer is focusing all the unlimited power of the living 
God on one specific person or situation right here on earth. With that kind 
of access to the central power of God, there's no excuse for that worry, 
those moods, that spiritual mediocrity, all that stress you're carrying. You 
can turn loose all the power and love of the Most High God on that stuff!

        We don't have to give anything to have the privilege of finding rest 
in the awesome Throne Room of God. Jesus did all the giving. So, if you ever 
meet someone who's excited because they have stayed at the White House, you 
can say to them, "Well, you should hear where I've just been, because I can 
go to God's Throne Room anytime!"

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