Wednesday, April 12, 2006

You can do the "Holy Thing" that God has commissioned you.

 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

You can do the "Holy Thing" that God has commissioned you. Can?, Can!, Can't it, Yes I Can. A Can in the sky. A can unlabeled in the sky. A can unlabeled in the sky is accelerated.  Yes you can! Have you have been trying something recently? Don't underestimate your abilities and talents. I can and I will. Perhaps , it is something in your past that you need to preserve. It may be a Godly promise, dream or vision, or aspiration. Courage is proportionate to your passion. Philippians 4:13 (Amplified Bible) 13I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]. 

It is time to start, restart, and begin the secret "thing" that God has placed in your heart. You Can?, Can!, Can't it, Yes you Can. The can is the Alabaster Box. It is precious. It is your complete inheritance. But you must pour it out. Matthew 26:7 (Amplified Bible) 7 A woman came up to Him with an alabaster flask of very precious perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at table.  The pouring ointment upon the head of Christ was a token of the highest respect. Where there is true love in the heart to Jesus Christ, nothing will be thought too good to bestow upon him. The more Christ's servants and their services are cavilled at, the more he manifests his acceptance. Measure your can! How much does your can weigh? Some brethren people pray by the yard, but true prayer is measured by weight - not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it that a fine oration of great length. - C H Spurgeon.

Easton's Bible Dictionary Alabaster [N] [S]occurs only in the New Testament in connection with the box of "ointment of spikenard very precious," with the contents of which a woman anointed the head of Jesus as he sat at supper in the house of Simon the leper (Matthew 26:7; Mark 14:3; Luke 7:37). These boxes were made from a stone found near Alabastron in Egypt, and from this circumstance the Greeks gave them the name of the city where they were made. The name was then given to the stone of which they were made; and finally to all perfume vessels, of whatever material they were formed. The woman "broke" the vessel; i.e., she broke off, as was usually done, the long and narrow neck so as to reach the contents. This stone resembles marble, but is softer in its texture, and hence very easily wrought into boxes. Mark says (14:5) that this box of ointment was worth more than 300 pence, i.e., denarii, each of the value of sevenpence halfpenny of our money, and therefore worth about 10 pounds. But if we take the denarius as the day's wage of a labourer (Matthew 20:2), say two shillings of our money, then the whole would be worth about 30 pounds, so costly was Mary's offering.

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