Greeting, Seeing And Worshiping The One, True, And Only God

Good morning, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,[i] the Alpha and the Omega[ii] – the great I AM[iii] – the Covenant-making God of Abraham,[iv] Isaac and Jacob,[v] the One[vi] and only True,[vii] ever-living, Creator-God,[viii] eternal King,[ix] the God of the living[x] and the Author of my salvation.[xi] You have graced[xii] me to believe that You exist and that You reward anyone who seeks You out.[xiii] *

Because of your great and unselfish love for me, Father-God, You, who are rich in mercy, chose to make me alive with the risen Christ – reborn of You[xiv]** – even when I was still a sinner[xv] and dead in transgressions.[xvi] You delivered me out of the authority of Darkness and translated me into the Kingdom of Your beloved Son, Jesus the Christ.[xvii] He is now my Ransom[xviii] and my Resurrection,[xix] my Wisdom, my righteousness and sanctification, my Redeemer[xx] – my very life.[xxi]

You are a holy,[xxii] all-good,[xxiii] Almighty,[xxiv] all-knowing,[xxv] all-loving,[xxvi] forever merciful,[xxvii] trustworthy, faithful and true,[xxviii] ever-present,[xxix] infinite and unchangeable,[xxx] Triune[xxxi] God by nature and I boast only in You, Lord.[xxxii] Please teach me what is best for me and direct me in the way that I should go.[xxxiii]

Lord, I thank You and praise You and adore You and worship You and I love You with the love of the Holy Spirit poured into my new heart.[xxxiv] Therefore, I gladly and whole-heartedly serve You, O Mighty One of all Glory and Majesty,[xxxv] the Lord, my God.[xxxvi] To You, sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb, belong all blessing and honor and glory and power forever and ever.[xxxvii] Amen!

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 [i] Matthew 28:19 “Therefore, go and disciple all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Also see John. 14:26, John 15:26,

1 Corinthians 3:18 and 2 Corinthians 2:12.

[ii] Revelation 1:8 “’I am the Alpha and Omega, (the) Beginning and (the) Ending’, says the Lord, ‘the One who is, and who was and Who (is) coming, the Almighty.’”

[iii] Exodus 3:14 “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Also see John 8:58.

[iv] Genesis 15:18a “’On the day the Lord made a Covenant with Abram and said ‘To your decedents I give this land.’” Also see Hebrews 10:16.

[v] Exodus. 3:6 “Then he said, ‘I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ At this, Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.” Also see Matthew 22:32.

23 Mark 12:29 “And Jesus answered him:’The Lord our God is one Lord.’”

[vii] John 17:3 “And this is everlasting life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.”

[viii] Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Also see John 1:3 and Ephesians 3:9.                                

[ix] Jeremiah 10:10 “But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God, the eternal King.” Also see 2 Corinthians 6:16 and 1 Timothy 4:10.

[x]. Luke 20:38 “He is not the God of the dead but of the living for to Him all are alive.”

[xi] Hebrews 2:10b “…bringing many sons to glory, to perfect (Jesus) as the Author of their salvation through sufferings.”

[xii] Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, which is not of yourselves, it is a gift from God.”

[xiii] Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith (it is) impossible to please (God). For it is right (that) the (one) drawing near to God should believe that He is, and (that) He becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking Him out.” Also see Romans 1:17 and Jeremiah 29:13.

* Note: “Seek” in this case means to “hunger for” and “to worship” in the Greek.

[xiv] 1 John 5:1 “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” Also see John 3:3 and 7 and 1 John 4:7.

**Note: The term “born again” is discussed in greater detail in Chapter Four.

[xv] Romans 5:8 ‘But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

[xvi] Ephesians 2:4 and John 15:16a “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace that you have been saved. You have not chosen me, but I chose you out and planted you ….” Also see John 17:23, Romans 1:7, Ephesians 2:1 and Colossians 3:12

[xvii] Colossians 1:13 “Who has delivered us from the authority of Darkness and translated (us) into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

[xviii] Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life (as) a ransom in the place of many.” Also see 1 Timothy 2:6.

[xix] John 11:25 “’Jesus said to her, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life. The (one) believing in Me, though he die, he shall live.’”

[xx] I Corinthians 1:30 “It is because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God both righteousness and holiness and redemption.”

[xxi] Colossians 3:4 “When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

[xxii] Leviticus 19:2 “…Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.”

[xxiii] Luke 18:19 “…Jesus answered, ‘No one is good – except God alone.’”

[xxiv] Genesis 17:1 “…I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.” Also see Jeremiah 32:17 and  27 and Revelation 1:8.

[xxv] I John 3:20 “… that if our heart accuses us, (we know) that God is greater than our heart and (He) knows all things.”

[xxvi] I John 4:16 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love….” Also see I John 4:10.

[xxvii] Psalms 136:1 “O give thanks to the Lord, for (He is) good; His mercy (is) forever.”

[xxviii] I Corinthians 1:9 and Revelation 19:11 “God, Who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.” “And I saw heaven having been opened. And, behold! A white horse, and He sitting on it having been called Faithful and True. And He judges and wars in righteousness.”

[xxix] Jeremiah 23:24 and Hebrews 13:5 “’Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?’ declares the Lord. ‘Do I not fill heaven and earth?’. “’…for He (God) has said ‘I will never leave you nor in any way will I forsake (you).’” Also see Psalm 139:1-13.

[xxx] Malachi 3:6 and Hebrews 13:8 “For I the Lord do not change….” . “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today even to the ages (forever).” Also see 1 Kings 8:27 Numbers 23:19 and Hebrews 1:12.

[xxxi] Matthew 28:19 “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” Also see Matthew 3:16-17.

[xxxii] Psalm 44:8 “In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise Your name forever.” Also see Ps. 34:2 and Galatians 6:14.

50 Isaiah 48:17 “… I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you what is best for you, Who directs you in the way you should go.” Also see Proverbs 3:6.

[xxxiv] Romans 5:5b “… for God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.”

[xxxv] Psalm 45:3 “Gird thy sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty.”

[xxxvi] Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God in your midst is mighty. He will save you and delight over you with joy. He will renew you in His love and rejoice over you with singing.” Also see Mark 12:29 and  John 20:28.

[xxxvii] Revelation 5:13 “And every creature which is in heaven, and in the earth, and underneath the earth, and the things that are on the sea, and the things in all of them, I heard saying: To Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb (be) blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.”

Coming next week: Chapter 2: Standing on the Authority of the Bible as the Living, Inerrant and Enduring Word of God