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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Giving is not motivated by trying to convince people how "smart" and "responsible" and "enjoyable" it is to give...(rather we are to be) savoring and seeking the kingdom of God. Only the greater treasures of the kingdom of God can free us from clinging to the competing treasures of this world. Only the deeper satisfaction that comes from spending ourselves for others can defeat the sinfully natural impulse to use others for our own ends. And giving up ourselves for others can take place only when our own security needs have already been met in the Christ who spent Himself for us (2 Cor. 8:9). Hence, rather than focusing merely on more effective ways to advertise the benefits and obligations of giving, we need to pray for the pouring out of God's Spirit on His people. Instead of bigger fund-raising campaigns, we need a bigger picture of God.
Scott Hafemann

So the meaning of away from the presence of the Lord does not mean that God is absent in every sense, but in those senses [His love which produces His pleasures forevermore/fullness of joy]. God will be terribly present in another sense. All reality continues to say: In Him we live and move and have our being. And it is still in hell that no one can hide from the Lord or escape the terrible countenance of His anger. So God's power is present in hell as the One who sustains our being and the One who enforces justice and the One who maintains suffering. He is present in all the ways men do not want Him to be present and none of the ways that believers enjoy His presence.
John Piper

    • Bible – russian – Синодальный перевод Псалтырь 147

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    Псалтырь 147
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    Аллилуия.
    1 Хвали, Иерусалим, Господа; хвали, Сион, Бога твоего,
    2 ибо Он укрепляет вереи ворот твоих, благословляет сынов твоих среди тебя;
    3 утверждает в пределах твоих мир; туком пшеницы насыщает тебя;
    4 посылает слово Свое на землю; быстро течет слово Его;
    5 дает снег, как волну; сыплет иней, как пепел;
    6 бросает град Свой кусками; перед морозом Его кто устоит?
    7 Пошлет слово Свое, и все растает; подует ветром Своим, и потекут воды.
    8 Он возвестил слово Свое Иакову, уставы Свои и суды Свои Израилю.
    9 Не сделал Он того никакому другому народу, и судов Его они не знают. Аллилуия.
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