Truth Be Told: A Blog by Pastor Bill Alderson

As the deer pants for [ arag – strongly, audibly longs for] the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God? My tears [singular - weeping] have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng [ sak – multitude] and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you in despair [ hamah – distress], O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope [ yahal – wait, hope] in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help [ yeshua – deliverance, salvation] of His presence. O my God, my soul is in despair [ sachah – brought low] within me; therefore, I remember You from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep [ tehom – depth, a wave or surge] cal...

  “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold.              Psalm 46:10-11 Many great Christian believers do not find the fullness of a relationship with Christ as one who abides in Christ early in their walk with God, but it usually comes after years of trying to be the man or woman God wants him or her to be without being fully enveloped in the life of Christ – the exchanged life. Most often, the revelation comes after a period of the believer falling short of his expectation of how he should be living. One such example is Hudson Taylor. One of the greatest missionaries of the modern Christian age is (James) Hudson Taylor, who spent 51 years in China and was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and began 125 schools, which directly resulted in 18,000 Christia...