Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be white as snow…
Isaiah 1:18
Saved yet stuck?
Born again, yet, have you ever felt powerless in the face of tribulations in this world, even though the Bible promises that
He who is in us is greater than He who is in the world?
““Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
John 14:1-3
Place called there is here to journey with you to help you discover your ‘there’.
When you have Christ magnified in your life, you will inevitably discover that Christ is in your ‘there’.
For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
-Mark 4:26
As the word in Mark 4:26 says, the farmer himself does not know how the seed should sprout and grow after they are sown. So it was with us, we did not know how, but as we soaked in the faithful teachings of God’s word day and night, night and day, our lives were transformed.
And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free
-John 8:32
Jesus explained to his disciples that he who hears the word need to understand it (Matthew 13:19) so that the word will not be snatched away from his heart. Yet, so many struggle with understanding the word of God. The Bible says people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). But the gospel is meant to be simple and to be believed! How can we get there?
Place called ‘there’
Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, saying, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
So he (Elijah) went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. – 1 Kings 17:5
Elijah went and did according to the word of the LORD, even though he did not have full revelation of what “there” looked like. He went. He did. And provision was ‘there’.
Besides Elijah, there were many in the Bible that had ‘there’ encounters with the Lord.
Abraham talked to God ‘there’
at the altars he built to the Lord.
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” Andthere he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east;there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:7-8 NKJV
The Lord blessed Jacob ‘there’
after a wrestling match.
And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.
Genesis 32:28-29 NKJV
The Lord told Jacob He will make him
a great nation ‘there’.
“So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.” So He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.”
Genesis 46:1-3 NKJV
The Lord gave Joseph favour
while he was ‘there’ in a prison.
And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39:20-21 KJV
The Lord met Moses while
he was ‘there’ in the wilderness.
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Exodus 3:2 NIV
God appeared to Solomon after he sought God ‘there’ at the tabernacle of the Lord.
Now the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the Lord; Solomon and the assembly sought Him there. And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask! What shall I give you?”
2 Chronicles 1:5-7 NKJV
Jeremiah heard God ‘there’
at the Potter’s house.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.
Jeremiah 18:1-2 NKJV
Ezekiel prophesied ‘there’
in the open valley of dry bones.
The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
Ezekiel 37:1-4 NKJV
The Samaritan Woman met Jesus ‘there’
and received living water.
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
John 4:6-7 NKJV
Paul was told to go ‘there’ during
the Damascus road experience.
“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus,” he replied. “I am the one you are opposing. Now get up and go into the city. There you will be told what you must do.”
Acts 9:5-6 NIrV
Jehovah Shammah
THE LORD IS ‘THERE‘
Ezekiel 48:35 NKJV
Are you ‘there’ yet?
Where is your ‘there’?
Do you know that the Lord is ‘there’ (Ezekiel 48:35)? Jehovah Shammah is one of the names of God that appears only once in the Bible and indicates that God has not abandoned Jerusalem, leaving it in ruins, but that there will be a restoration. In all the instances of the ‘there’ encounters of the characters in the Bible, the Lord was ‘there’ with them; they knew their God and carried out great exploits (Daniel 11:32). Wherever you are in your stage of life, the Lord desires to have a relationship with you.
Ministry of Reconciliation
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them,
and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
– II Corinthians 5:18,19
Reconciliation opens the door to relationship.
Place called there is here to journey with you to help you discover your ‘there’.
It is a ministry of reconciliation that wants to help you to build a strong relationship with our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and from that identity and place,
discover how you can minister the word of reconciliation to others.
And at the heart of everything we do is one person –
Jesus
But God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
– Romans 5:8
For so many, their lives was one in which there was “no Jesus”. But so many are transformed after they got to “know Jesus”.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
– Colossians 1:13
Our hearts’ desire is that you know Jesus too.
You may ask “How do I get to know Jesus?”
What is eternal life?
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ who You have sent. -John 17:3