Anna’s Testimony
......36 There was also a prophetess, Anna.......,. She was well along in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, (but he died) 37) and she was a widow about 84 years of age. She did not leave the temple courtyard, but served God there night and day with fasting and prayers. 38 At that very moment ( after Simeon had prophesied words concerning the baby Jesus) she came in and began to thank God also and to speak about Jesus there to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem....scroll down.
.......Anna had a true heart for God. Her passion and zeal for the Lord was clearly evident by her prayers and fasting's day and night in the courtyard of the Lord's Temple. She stayed in God's presence. She was not going to let this world, no person, no worldly pleasure, or no thing get in between her and God and their sweet fellowship.
......Anna, she was addicted to His presence blessing. God tasted so delicious to her soul that nothing could compare to the sweetness of God in the soul. She loved God's presence so much that she never wanted to be away from His temple, nor from His sweet and rewarding presence. She was addicted to serving the Lord with gladness. It was a love relationship between her and Jehovah that very few in Israel had ever experienced in the old covenant. (David surely did and a few others, but only a few). O taste and see that the Lord is good and she was tasting His good in her soul, even for many decades and years.
...... She drew near to God every day of her life and He certainly had drawn near to her. God was so close to her heart that when Jesus as a baby was in the temple, she heard God say, THIS IS THE PROMISED CHILD to redeem Israel.
......God wants us all to be so close to His heart that we to hear His voice clearly and know His movements on the earth each day. (That closeness is attainable. We see it in the bible). Even to the degree that each day we hear in the heart and we receive from the Lord His move, His instructions, and His movements for us each day.
..... Jesus had that level of fellowship with the Father going on inside him every day. Anna was also so dear and so close to the heart of God that she to heard God say, This is My Promised One, the hope of Israel. And so did many others in the New Testament testify to the things of God that they had seen and had clearly heard even as to touch the Lords holes in his hands and feet and put their finger into his risen side and as to hear HIM SAY INSTRUCTIONS to them in their inner hearing and in their outer hearing often.
......Family let us draw nigh to God and He promises to draw near to us. How can we do this deno? Well we read and study his word with other believers and we do often the things Anna did. Stay night and day serving the Lord. Stay in God's presence and work. Pray and fast often..Do it because we love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and body...With every part of her being, and with all her time on earth, Anna was serving God. Anna was about God's business doing her part and God made a memorial of her devotional love for Him and wrote it in HIS BOOK.
......Friends, the work of the Lord needs us. God craves our attention and love and our service in Christ our risen Lord's kingdoms work. He craves our devotional love, for it is in devotion and not just emotion that the true of our love for Jesus is found sincere and real.......deno.......share freely..+++
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