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  • A Temporary Throne – 6

    A Temporary Throne – 6

     CHAPTER 6

    PRAYER:

    An interlude of refreshment…

    Matthew 11: 27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
    28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
    29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

    The LORD told me to close this book for a moment of rest. Prayer is rest. Prayer is refreshment. The rest is the same as the rest for which Hannah gave thanks to the Lord for returning her strength. It is by God’s answer that we receive the rest of God.

    PRAYER is the conversation between a PERSONAL GOD, with the man of His Creation. PRAYER is more than asking: PRAYER is LISTENING to GOD.

    Revelation 14: ESV “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
    “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

    I pray to God: for you, personally. [Let us pray: …]

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 5

    A Temporary Throne – 5

    CHAPTER 5

    SUM, ERGO SUM, ROGER!

    I lay there in awe and wonderment! I immediately understood the WORD the LORD had spoken to me.

    Latin: From former thoughts of a man, who after doubting the existence of every man from the beginning of time and questioning everything of God’s Creation had concluded in his own thinking: “I think; therefore, I am.”

    I had been wondering how real my experience was. I had thought: Is this real? Or is this only a dream?

    That was the point of life to which the philosopher had reasoned himself. The thinker’s conclusion was that man exists with certainty, because man can certainly think.

    When Moses had encountered God in the burning bush that was not consumed, it did not make sense (to a created man). When Moses later asked God how to explain who God IS to Israel, this was God’s reply:

    Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

    I knew (if I know anything at all) that some translations of the Bible read: “I AM THAT I AM,” in Hebrew literally, “hayah hayah.”

    Yĕhovah ‘elohiym THE LORD GOD had spoken to me saying:

    I AM, THEREFORE I AM, ROGER.

    And for His MOST PERSONAL purpose, THE LORD GOD had addressed HIS NAME to me personally!

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 4

    A Temporary Throne – 4

    CHAPTER 4

    PRAYER SPEAKS TO GOD: person to PERSON.

    After my reply, “Here I am, Lord,” I remembered:

    The purpose of a PRAYER of Samuel’s mother Hannah had been to glorify God — as had been the purpose of a latter prayer from a just announced virgin mother-to-be of the Son of Man.

    Samuel 2: And Hannah prayed and said:
    “My heart rejoices in the Lord;
    My horn [strength] is exalted in the Lord.
    6 “The Lord kills and makes alive;
    He brings down to the grave and brings up.
    8 He raises the poor from the dust
    And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
    To set them among princes
    And make them inherit the throne of glory.

    Here I lay, in a conversation with the LORD MOST HIGH, which THE LORD had initiated. I gave the ONLY answer I knew: the answer of obedience.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.