We Serve an Omniscient God
One of His Names is El Shaddai, which means God Almighty. This Name speaks of His power.
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Lord, Help Us With Our Unbelief
Mark 9:23-24
23 Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.
24 And immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.
Jesus said, all things are possible to those who believe, then the father of the child cried out, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.
I remember reading this verse years ago, but I never asked God for understanding. Well, the other day, I asked the Lord, if we believe, then how can there be unbelief? He immediately reminded me of Rom 8:3, which says, God sent His Son to do what the law couldn't do, because of the weakness of our flesh.
That's it, we have unbelief because our flesh is weak, though we are following Christ, we are still following the ways of the world. Our flesh or carnal nature is of Adam and it wants the things of the world, because it's of the world . Ephesians 2 says, we were dead in the trespasses and sins, in which we once walked, following the course of the world, following the prince of the power of the air, aka the devil. We once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of our body and the mind, by nature, we were children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. It also says in Ephesians, a few verses later, that we who were once far off, have been brought near by the Blood of Christ.
God covered our unbelief with His grace, through the Blood of His Son. Jesus is the perfect and spotless Lamb, chosen by God, to be the perfect and final sacrifice. Though we still have a carnal nature to contend with, God, in His infinite love, reconciled us to Himself.
Eph 2:19, 22 ESV
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
We are now citizens in the Household of God. How cool is that? We are being built together into a dwelling place for God. Jesus told His disciples that He was going to prepare a place for them. He said in His Father's house are many mansions. Verse 22 says, we are being built together into a dwelling place for God. We are being built into His Father's house, where there are many mansions, we are the mansions that Jesus is building us into. All for God's glory! Hallelujah!
John 14:2 ESV
2 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.
Jesus is preparing a place for us, by preparing us to be a place for God.
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Simple Obedience
We are always tempted by the enemy, God turns these temptations into tests. As hard and difficult as they sometimes are, we must always put God first. We say, to God be the glory, this should be our way of life, not just some cute little thing we say. God's glory is EVERYTHING and is what we should be seeking, ALWAYS. We are the hands and feet of the Lord, everything He does own earth, He does in and through us. There are many different parts of the body, yet only one body. Each part of the body compliments the other and when operating in unity, works like a well oiled machine, actually, like a body. When one part of the body hurts, the rest feel it, when one part of the body makes a mistake, the rest suffers. Our goal should be, to do what He says. If something drastic happens, though the rest of the body feels it and suffers from it, they must keep doing there part or else the body will stop. For example: If someone breaks a finger, the hand will feel it and be tender, the other fingers will feel it and be cautious, but they must keep doing their part.
We are children of God, when one of us falls or suffers an attack, the rest will feel the pain and suffer loss, but we must keep going. Many will pray and some will intercede, because it's their calling, it's their job. The other parts of the body can't take a day off, because one got hurt. This is simple obedience, to do what God says. This is an elementary doctrine, to obey God.
This is what I want, simple obedience. I want to do what God says, always. I don't care about some great calling or gift. I want God to use me how He will, when He will. I want to be someone God can count on. When He tells me to do something, be it great or small, I want to be one who will do it. I want to obey God. I believe I have some obedience, though, I'm far from where I want to be and where, I believe, He wants me to be.. I'm trusting God to bring to the place He wants me and it'll be by His power, not mine.
I pray God will bring us all to the place, where our desires are simple and selfless, they are to obey God and everything He says. Amen.
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A Man After God’s Heart
Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ (ESV)
To begin with, I want to be a man after God's heart. I want God to think of me and say, "In Wesley, I have found a man after My heart." My wife says, I'm already a man after God's heart, well, she's biased, I mean, hey, she's my wife and she loves me. Thank you Honey, I love you, too. To be a man (or woman) after God's heart, means everything we do, is His will and we're obedient to His Word. Well, I'm not that guy, yet, of course, with that logic, I'll never be one and I should quit now. This kind of thinking, also makes the sacrifice of Christ useless, because, that's saying we don't need His grace. So, I'll just keep wanting to be that man and leave the rest to God, He is Almighty and has the power to bring me to that place and this I'm thankful for. AMEN!!!
Ok, so why do we go to church?
Is it to escape hell, this is a good reason, or is it to serve God, this is a much better reason. Is it to meet girls/guys, not good, maybe for business or appearances sake, also, not good. Is it because it's expected of us or maybe, your spouse or parents make you, etc, etc, etc. The reasons why people go to church are many, but there is only One true reason for going to church, to have intimate relationship with God. Hey, if you go to church for any reason other than intimacy with God, don't stop, because He's has the power to bring you to this place and I pray He will.
Other reasons, may cost you eternally and you may hear from Jesus say, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matt 7:23)
I pray God will, in His infinite mercy, bring you to a place of total surrender, so that you will endure to the end, and be saved, so He can use you and your name will be written in the Lambs book of Life.
People have opinions of how christians should look, dress, behave, etc.
To begin with, we should look and behave like the One we're following, Jesus. If we don't, then we need to check ourselves and examine our motives. We can fool each other and we do, but no one can fool God. He knows our hearts and intents, so don't think going to church is a way into heaven, but don't quit either, like I said, God is powerful enough to change you.
I've wondered what people think, when they see me? I wonder, because I want to be like Christ and I know we preach more with our actions, than with our words. I wonder, if anyone wants what I have or wants to be like me, the Christ in me. All who believe in Jesus are His witnesses, but I want to be a good witness to Christ. I want people to see my good works and glorify my Father in Heaven (Matt 5:16).
People think I'm funny, of course God isn't glorified by that, I sure hope He likes to laugh though. I can see me making Him laugh and His response would be ROFL. ROFL means, rolling on floor laughing.
I'd love to make God laugh. Hopefully, I already do.
God bless.
We Were Told to Humble Ourselves and Pray
What do you do, when you can't see anything good in your circumstances? God's Word says, we're to thank Him and praise Him in everything. Paul said, he's learned to be contempt with much and with nothing. I know what this sounds like to many of you, I know the thoughts in your minds, because they've been in mine. Hey this is a day by day battle for me. I've asked God many times, how I'm supposed to be thankful, when I didn't know what I'm going to eat or where I'm going to sleep.
Now is a time for us to be on our faces before God. We need to listen to Him, say nothing and think nothing, just listen. Then do what He says. If He tells us to pray for a person or a place or the government, then we pray as He says. This is what 2Chronicles 7:14 is talking about.
2Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (ESV)
"If My people called by My Name", that's us, the ones who are saved. Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're saved, you must have a relationship with the Lord.
We are to "humble ourselves". He wants us to be humble, not arrogant. His Word says, He resists the proud. Our reason for living is to give God the glory through our works and in our praise.
We are told to "pray." Prayer is how we communicate with God, it's how we talk to Him and He talks to us. Our reasons for prayer aren't only to confess our sins, to ask for things, and pray for others, it's also, to hear what He wants to say to us.Our prayers need to be Holy Spirit led. As we spend time with Him in prayer, He is changing us, little by little and the sin in our life becomes less and less.
He also wants us to "seek His face". He wants us to have such a hunger to be with Him, that we'll quietly sit just waiting to hear Him speak and He wants us to do this everyday. He wants our love and our adoration, He wants our worship.
He wants us to "turn from our wicked ways". He wants us to begin living a repentant life, the ultimate goal being no sin in our lives. It isn't impossible for us to stop sinning, but it takes more power than we have. God knew the weakness of the flesh, for this reason He sent His Son. We need to learn to deny ourselves and follow His will to become a new person, a son of God.
In His Word, He tells us what to do and what not to do. We need to spend time with Him in prayer and reading and meditating on His Word. The days are hard and are getting harder. Many people have lost their jobs and their homes, they don't know what to do, they need relief. We should be praying for them, because the day may come when we'll be in the say situation and we'll desperately need relief too.
Father, we need You. Please have mercy on us, because of our stubbornness. We aren't doing what You've told us to do and we're suffering because of it. Please, let us turn from our wicked ways and humble ouselves and pray.
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