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  07-01 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part One: The Iron Rod of Jesus 07-02 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Two: Narrow Mindedness 07-03 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Three: Changing Things 07-04 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Four: You Are Your Own Reaping 07-05 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Five: Falling into Place 07-06 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Six: Almost Hopeless? 07-07 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seven: Helping, Not Hurting 07-08 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eight: The Most Miserable People On Earth 07-09 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nine: 100% 07-10 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Ten: Choosing Pastors 07-11 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eleven: How Not To Be Happy 07-12 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twelve: What You Are Known For 07-13 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirteen: Controlling Your Body 07-14 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fourteen: What Really Matters 07-15 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fifteen: You Have To Sin? 07-16 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Sixteen: Need The Bible? 07-17 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seventeen: Knowing What Time It Is 07-18 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eighteen: Self-willed 07-19 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nineteen: A World Like You 07-20 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty: The Mind Of Christ, the Servant of God 07-21 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty One: Second Opinions 07-22 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Two: Don’t Blame the Liar 07-23 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Three: Always Pray 07-24 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Four: Salvation 07-25 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Five: Who Is Who 07-26 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Six: Getting the Point 07-27 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Seven: Bad Places 07-28 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Eight: Recognizing God’s Voice 07-29 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Nine: Our Righteousness 07-30 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty: Leaking Joy and Strength 07-31 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty One: Only One Real Victim

 

Thought for the Morning
7-29

Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Nine:
Our Righteousness

“About four years ago, I put a piece of notebook paper in my Bible on which to write down things said during the meetings that really stood out to me.”
Rebekah Joy

“The best you’ve ever done in your life without God is no good.”

~ from Uncle Bob’s testimony

When we receive understanding from God, we realize that all human thoughts are worthless in helping us come to know God, and all human ways of serving God amount to nothing. He is so completely not one of us that, as He said through Isaiah, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. As far above earth as heaven is, so are my thoughts above your thoughts, and my ways above your ways.”

Isaiah caught a glimpse of this truth and cried out, “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6).

The pride of man’s flesh resists the revelation that all human religious spectacles are useless exercises in vanity and that God accepts none of them. Those who know God confess this truth, both in word and by example. Since the days of the late Roman Empire, any saint of God who humbly dared not to participate in or endorse man’s vain ceremonies and creeds has been criticized as misanthropic and “a setter forth of strange gods”. But to refuse man’s godless ways of serving God is but to confess the surpassing glory of God; it is not to hate mankind; nor is it to be arrogant and contentious. It is only to be good in the sight of God.

All that God really asks of His children is to love Him with all our hearts and to treat one another right. Many are familiar with the Scriptures that reveal this simple will of God to us, but whenever anyone dares to actually live according to those two simple, holy rules, it provokes hypocrites to great wrath and bitterness, for it exposes them for who they really are.

Jesus warned us not to be like the many who mouth the words of God but whose hearts are far from Him. If you are determined to listen to the Lord and serve God sincerely in the light of His Spirit, be prepared to be condemned as heretics and fools by those who do not. If you have the faith to abandon your own righteousness, steel your heart to be misunderstood, and either pitied or be hated by those who have no such faith. To them, the righteousness of God is an embarrassment. But to the wise, it is salvation itself.