Fellowshipping & Praise the Lord with Doc329 (15)

Friends of Jesus
True friendship is what we see as we read Revelation 15:2-3. "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints."

Notice that on this sea there is not a ripple; no confusion, no contention or harshness, there is perfect love one for another.
What is this mark he speaks of?

It is the mark spoken of in Ezekiel 9:4, "And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."

The mark of the beast spoken of here is having the spirit of the beast, i.e., that our delight is in the things of this life, and if so, then you are still at enmity against God. That is the mark of the beast

One gains victory over the mark of the beast when the enmity against God is replaced with the Spirit of Christ who mourns over the abominations that come over the earth. The mark of the beast is the delight in things of this world. That is the enmity against God. Moses had the victory over the chariots and horsemen of Egypt, which is the symbol of the world and the power of sin.
So wherein is our lovely Saviour most delighted? His sole object is His Father's glory!

John 15:7-14 says, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit [The fruit of love and repentance are the object spoken of here.]; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandmentt
What is our Savior’s highest commandment?,


That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
We find our love for Jesus sorts us out from the world as we see in the following verses. John 15:17-20 says, "These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you,
The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."
See! You are not going to have the love of the world. The love is among those who love God. They are the friends of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are the ones with whom we can have fellowship because the fellowship of this world is enmity against God. .

God wants a relationship with us more intimate, more permanent and more exclusive than the most wonderful marriage any human couple could ever experience. When we learn that he wants us to love, honor and obey him, however, we tend to back off in horror before discovering that in every way we benefit from this relationship and it is God, not us, who gets the raw end.

He loves you more than you love yourself and has your best interests at heart even more than you do. He alone has infinite understanding and, as demonstrated by Jesus suffering on the cross for you, he is utterly unselfish and would sacrifice anything for your eternal happiness. To disregard the advice of someone of infinite intelligence who wants only your best, makes as much sense as deliberately harming yourself.
Any time we fail to love, honor and obey the God who is devoted to our welfare, we ruin that part of our lives, relative to what we would otherwise have enjoyed and achieved.

I think you would agree that a true believer would act like God is right next to him all the time, because that is indeed just where God is.
And God is just waiting for you to talk to him, waiting just for those few brief moments when you acknowledge him, think about him, and show him some love and respect. Your God is just waiting for you to talk to him and he desperately wants to talk to you, not in words, but through your mind and your heart.
But before God can begin to talk to you, something must happen. You have to be receptive to God's words. You have to begin to communicate with God and listen for God to speak. You have to begin to get your heart in the right mind set. And most importantly you cannot go on ignoring God.

Rember
The Lord is with you in everything you do. He is waiting for you to feel his presence more and more in your life.
He wants to have a close relationship with you. Just open your heart to him.
He will hold your hand and walk with you all your life. You have the most powerful hand in this earth and in the heavens.
Take heart! Stretch out your hand to Jesus!

Happiness comes to those who sing for joy to the Lord. "Sing to God, praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds,
his name is the Lord and rejoice before Him." (Psa 68:4) When we lift up our voices in praise to His name, joy fills our hearts.

Real happiness is a fruit given to us as a result of letting the Spirit of God control our thoughts, emotions and activities.
Worship begins the cycle of happiness