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Dear Friends,
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Donald Anderson
PO Box 6611
Tyler, TX 75711-6611
903-939-1201 (office)
1.877.326.7729 (toll free)
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Wonderful Counselor, Our Mighty God Scripture For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NASB) Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. Psalms 1:1,2 (NIV) You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Psalm 73:24 (NIV) Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Romans 11:33,34 (NASB) |
|  Wonderful Counselor, Our Mighty God |
| We can trust the infinite wisdom of God to counsel us in every area of our lives. When our daughter Donna attended Talbot seminary in California, one of her counseling class assignments was to write a paper on God the Wonderful Counselor. She came to appreciate our God and this aspect of His character, and so have I. So many of the scriptures speak of God as our counselor. Psalm 16:7-9, 11: "I will bless the Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. ...Thou wilt make known to me the path of life" (NASB) Indeed, most of God's counseling comes to us through scripture. Psalm 33:11: "The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation" (NASB). Other favorite verses about our mighty counselor include Psalm 73:24: "With Thy counsel Thou wilt guide me and afterward receive me to glory." Isaiah 28:29: "This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great" (NASB). Proverbs 19:20,21: "Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord, it will stand" (NASB). A wonderful quality of God the counselor is that when He gives counsel, He also provides the enabling power to follow it. He can heal any hurt. Every bit of shame or guilt uncovered, He is able to wash away or cover under His precious blood. He truly is a WONDERFUL counselor!
Spend time praising God as your wonderful counselor and thank Him for His counsel. |
Consider these passages that bid us be silent so that God can do the talking: "Be still, and know that I am God" (Ps. 46:10) really says, "Submit that I may empower your life and triumph over your circumstances!"
"The LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him" (Hab. 2:20) is an invitation to wait in quietness as the power issues from Zion. Furthermore, it invites us to get in a position to watch God, shut down our own nervous systems, and allow him to act. At the end of our helplessness, it is God who defends us, and the salvation is from God.
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Walking With Saints: Through the Best and Worst Times of Our Lives
In Jeremiah 9:23 God says, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches." In those three phrases God names his great competitors for the boast of the human heart. Each one - wisdom, might, and riches - tempts us to take satisfaction in ourselves - our intelligence, our strength, our material resources. Each one lures us away from trusting God as the superior satisfaction above them all. It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, he'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and he chose your heart. And the Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem? Face it, friend. He's crazy about you.
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A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm
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1. Praise: But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Psalm 33:11 (NIV)
2. Praise: All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom. Isaiah 28:29 (NIV)
3. Pray: Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Proverbs 13:11 (NIV)
4. Praise: ...also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
Ephesians 1:11 (NASB)
5. Pray: Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:20, 21 (NIV)
6. Praise: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)
7. Pray: ...turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, ...For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:2, 6 (NIV)
8. Praise: For God's direction for the future of BTR.
9. Pray: Philippines radio & OnePlace.com broadcast.
Prayer: Lord, teach me Your way, and I will walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name. I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.
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In the name of our Wonderful Counselor,
Pearl Anderson
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
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