{"id":3362,"date":"2010-11-06T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2010-11-06T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:14:57","slug":"intimate-theology-11-06-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Theology 11-06-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Intimate Theology<\/h2>\n<p><!-- module-wrapper-id --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-790\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>November 06, 2010<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"key-verse-box\">Do you believe this? \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/nkjv\/John%2011.26\">John 11:26<\/a><\/div>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JiHSDcx_3IE&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JiHSDcx_3IE&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Martha believed in the power available to Jesus Christ; she believed that if He had been there He could have healed her brother; she also believed that Jesus had a special intimacy with God, and that whatever He asked of God, God would do. But\u2014 she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha\u2019s theology had its fulfillment in the future. But Jesus continued to attract and draw her in until her belief became an intimate possession. It then slowly emerged into a personal inheritance\u2014 \u201cYes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ . . .\u201d (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+11:27');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+11:27\">John 11:27<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Is the Lord dealing with you in the same way? Is Jesus teaching you to have a personal intimacy with Himself? Allow Him to drive His question home to you\u2014 \u201cDo you believe <em>this<\/em>?\u201d Are you facing an area of doubt in your life? Have you come, like Martha, to a crossroads of overwhelming circumstances where your theology is about to become a very personal belief? This happens only when a personal problem brings the awareness of our personal need.<\/p>\n<p>To believe is to commit. In the area of intellectual learning I commit myself mentally, and reject anything not related to that belief. In the realm of personal belief I commit myself morally to my convictions and refuse to compromise. But in intimate personal belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ and make a determination to be dominated by Him alone.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me, \u201cDo you believe this?\u201d I find that faith is as natural as breathing. And I am staggered when I think how foolish I have been in not trusting Him earlier<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>November 6, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>The lyric from this song says it best\u2026. \u201dSavior please\u2026. keep saving me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026\u201dI began a good work within you and I will complete it. Yours is but to surrender. And all things will work toward this effort\u2026.your surrender, until; you become invisible and all that remains is Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intimate Theology November 06, 2010 \u00a0 Do you believe this? \u2014John 11:26 \u00a0 Martha believed in the power available to Jesus Christ; she believed that if He had been there He could have healed her brother; she also believed that Jesus had a special intimacy with God, and that whatever He asked of God, God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}