#101 Attributes of God - Introduction - Part 2 - 86 Seconds Video Devotional - Gary Wilkerson

The last few weeks we've been telling you about the series we're doing on the attributes,
the nature and the character of God. This, for me, comes from a very dear place in my heart.
When I was 19 years old, I went to a conference and I heard this verse read. It's in Chapter 9
of Jeremiah and the 23rd verse. It says, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let not the wise man boast in
his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
but let him who boasts boast in this...'"

Strange that the Bible would give us permission to boast. It sounds like it's prideful or haughty
or arrogant, but it's not. It's a boast in something other than yourself. It's not a boast in your own strength. It's not a boast in your own power, not a boast in the resources. In ancient Israel, they
called it not trusting in the chariots of Egypt, not trusting in the horses and the power of man,
but we can boast. There can be this great boast.

There can be this great joy in our heart that says we "'boast in this, that he understands and
knows me, that I am a God who practices steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth.
For in these things I delight,' declares the Lord." He mentions just a few of the many attributes
that God has there, and that we can boast in knowing these things. God has made these things known and I want to talk to about 21 different attributes of God over the next few months.
I believe it's going to enrich your faith, challenge your heart and cause you to have a yearning
and a hunger for a holy, mighty, wonderful God.
Do we really know the mind of God? Do we really know the character, nature, attributes, and the very heart of God? To go back to something means we would have to have known it in the first place. Over the next few months I want to take some time with you and dig into the very depths of the heart of God. 1 Corinthians, Chapter two says, "we can know the things of God, yea, even the deep things of God."

Isn't that profound that you don't have to live with a superficial knowledge of the Holy one. That you don't have to just kind of get little trinkets, little tidbits from the outskirts of His grace and His mercy. You can know Him in depth and in power. I want you to join me as we look at 21 different attributes over the next few months, and that's going to give us a deep knowledge of God.

And if we'll use that knowledge of God to build our faith we'll be like Daniel. "but the people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits." I pray these 86 second messages will make you strong in the Lord, powerful, Holy, full of love and grace and truth so that you could be a young man, young woman, old man, old woman raised up in this hour to be a vessel for God's purposes.