{"id":440,"date":"2012-03-20T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:35:22","slug":"personalize-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2012\/03\/20\/personalize-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalize Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>\u2018The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.us\/ps18.2.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Ps.18:2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">God does not just want to be the Alpha and Omega to you, He desires to be your Alpha and Omega. It is impossible to have God to yourself alone but you can choose to personalize your every interaction with Him. Personalize His Word, personalize His praise and worship. Paul admonishes us to look for every opportunity to sing to God from our heart. Do not just call Him God, call <!--more-->Him my God; that is what God wants. David wrote nine personalized revelations about God in <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.us\/ps18.2.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Psalm 18:2<\/a>. David could have said \u2018our Rock\u2019 or \u2018the place of safety\u2019 but David said \u2018my\u2019. Learn from David how to relate with God. Learn from God who constantly calls us His own. If you take the sacrifice of Jesus alone, it\u2019s more than enough to personalize Him. Jesus does not stop there; He is constantly interceding for you. The Bible says God has our names engraved in the palm of His hand. How personal is that. At some point in your Christian walk, you experience God as your Father. When everybody abandons you, your Father does not abandon you. When everyone condemns you, your<strong> <\/strong>Father because He is your Father comes to you and holds you. \u2018There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus\u2019. \u2018But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.us\/ps3.3.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Ps.3:3. <\/a>Again, David, the deeper his experiences with God the more personal he gets in praising God and acknowledging God\u2019s personal touch. What is God to you, can you say the Lord is my Shepard, my Rock, my Defense, my High Tower, my Buckler, my Shield, and\/or my God. This is what God wants for you. God wants to draw you into a relationship where like David, your communication with Him and of Him will be personalized; where without a shadow of confusion you too can say \u2018my God\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong> [Song]: Everything (2x), Lord You are everything to me (2x)My Treasure, my Priority, who can compare with You. Great is the measure of Your Royalty. O Morning Start, You truly are everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety\u2019 Ps.18:2 &nbsp; God does not just want to be the Alpha and Omega to you, He desires to be your Alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationship","category-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}