Glimpses of God
So Send I You
To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he
doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Psalm 68:33
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them
that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters. Who is blind, but my
servant? Or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is
perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the
beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his
Spirit, hath sent me. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it
shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that
I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. And when I
looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language,
but to the house of Israel; Not to many people of a strange speech and of an
hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. And I will restore to you
the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and
the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the
nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his
eye. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to
their servants: and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. And many
nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I
will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath
sent me unto thee.
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall
also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto
you. And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord,
and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall
come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners
out of the pit wherein is no water. And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of
hosts.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and
the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of
the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of
hosts. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
labourers into his harvest.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise
as serpents, and harmless as doves. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he
that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. For this is he, of whom it is
written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy
way before thee. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he
not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and
whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. And if any
man say unto you, Why do ye this? Say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and
straightway he will send him hither.
And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence
of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised, And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom
of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee,
saying, Art thou he that should come? Or look we for another?
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,
which shall prepare thy way before thee. And he sent them to preach the kingdom
of God, and to heal the sick. And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this
child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that
sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are
few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth
labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs
among wolves.
He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he
that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. Therefore also said the wisdom of
God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay
and persecute: I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it be
already kindled? And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were
bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world
through him might be saved. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
finish his work. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the
Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent
him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on
him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just;
because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. But I have greater
witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to
finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent
me. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not
his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on
him whom he hath sent. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but
the will of him that sent me. And this is the will of him that sent me, that
every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth
me, even he shall live by me.
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the
Father that sent me. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent
me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth
me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. For I have given unto
them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known
surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send
me.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. I
in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me.
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me,
even so send I you.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Unto you
first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning
away every one of you from his iniquities.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? The
same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which
appeared to him in the bush. The word which God sent unto the children of
Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you
feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. Delivering thee from the
people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, Be it known therefore
unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they
will hear it.
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of
good things!
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. But when the
fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall
be heirs of salvation?
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the
angels desire to look into.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen
and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his
servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by
his angel unto his servant John: Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches
which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto
Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and
shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that
dwelt on the earth.
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of
the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must
shortly be done.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I
am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Glimpses of God © by Joyce C. Lock