To You We Ascribe All Credit and Glory
Give to your servants words to speak Your truth,
The message You have place in our hearts, the message clear as any crystal chime.
Lord we cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, You oh Lord are Holy.
Matthew 6:1-24 Intrinsic Reward v Extrinsic Reward – Nestling the Lord’s Pray
Lord, Let me breathe your Word. May every day start with my trusting You for my needs. May your provisions for my life’s needs lead me to explore the needs of my spirit, needs for which You have also prepared a provision.
דָּבַר, daw-bar’; To Speak – Communicative Prayer
דָּבַר, daw-bar’; to speak,, to submit – answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use, utter, *well, *work.
Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love
In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man. In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature. In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif. Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.