Tommy's Devotional: Alpha and Omega

Monday, September 1, 2008

God both is and at the same time desires to be the Alpha and Omega. He is because of the very meaning of that term. The term "Alpha and Omega" refers to being the beginning and the end. Revelation 1:8 explains it as meaning, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Therefore if He ever was the Alpha and Omega, He also always will be. Regardless of what I do, say, believe, etc., He will always be the Alpha and Omega.

Why then do I submit to you that He desires to be the Alpha and Omega. If He is in very essence Alpha and Omega, how then could He at the same time desire to be something He already is? Answer: because there are times that He is not Alpha and Omega. When it comes to His very essence, He always is, but when it comes to our relation to Him, He sometimes is not. I ask you: Is He really the Alpha and Omega of your life. Is He the first thing on your mind in the morning and the last at night? Is He what consumes your thoughts and actions throughout the day? Is He the consuming motivation behind your existence?

With these questions in mind, I submit to you: God both is and at the same time desires to be the Alpha and Omega. God desires to be the Alpha and Omega of our hearts. He passionately longs to be our consuming motivation for existence. Our reason for living! May He always be the Alpha and Omega of our hearts. Especially since we always are the Alpha and Omega of His.

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“I will guarantee you that after the crucifixion of Jesus there were 120 mighty hungry folks at Jerusalem. That if they had not been exceedingly hungry they would not have gotten so gloriously filled. It was because they were hungry that they were filled.”

“We are sometimes inclined to think of God as mechanical. As if God just set a date for this or that to occur, but my opinion is that one of the works of the Holy Ghost is to prepare the hearts of men in advance by putting within them a strong hunger for that event that has been promised by God until it comes to pass. The more I study history and prophecy, the more I am convinced that when Jesus was born into the world he was born as an answer to a tremendous heart cry on the part of the world.”
-John G. Lake

“The reason we live without revival is because we are willing to live without it.”
-Leonard Ravenhill

“You have to get to the point where you are in actual pain. Where hunger becomes a pain and there is a vacuum big enough for God to fill.”
-A. W. Tozer

“Revival is not a miracle. A revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat is a miracle. If fact, if you follow the natural laws and you plant your seeds properly, you prepare the ground properly, water it properly and everything works out properly you will have a harvest by natural law. How much more definite and sure is spiritual law. If you will follow God’s spiritual law a revival will come.”

“You have two basic means. The Gospel to influence men and prayer to influence God. What you have to do is constant prayer, secret prayer, prevailing prayer. Unless prayer is offered with the agony of desire it’s not effectual prayer. Persistent prayer, fasting prayer, private prayer, public prayer and speaking the word will bring revival.”

“Here’s when a revival is needed: when there is a want of brotherly love and Christian confidence among believers, then a revival is needed. When there are dissensions and jealousies and evil speakings among believers, then there is a great need for revival. Religion cannot prosper with such things in the church and nothing can put an end to them like a revival. Revival is needed when there is a worldly spirit in the church. Revival is needed when a church finds it’s members falling into gross and scandalous sins.”
-Charles Finney

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