Are you facing another trial? Do you wonder how much more you can take? We become stronger with everything we come up against. God uses everything Satan throws at us to make us stronger. Don’t be discouraged. What does God want to teach you through this? What is God saying to you? Keep up the fight. God is not about to let Satan have you now. He has invested His life in you. You are more than a conqueror through Christ. He will give you the strength you need.
Category: Personal Relationship with God
God is Jealous
God loves us and created us for His purpose.
We were designed for His purpose. We were designed to fellowship with Him and worship Him.
We will never be truly happy unless we are fulfilling that purpose.
When we are doing other things besides what we were designed for, God gets jealous.
When our friends devote more time to other things or people than to us, we get jealous. God gets jealous the same way.
God is jealous of the time we spend falling for Satan’s distractions. God wants us to be free to serve Him. He is tired of Satan having his way with us.
When we fall into sin, God gets angry. He does not want Satan to have us.
Keep your focus on what God has done for you, what He has brought you through, what He has promised you. He will fight for you. He is not about to allow Satan to have you now.
He gives us our daily bread. Ultimately He has sacrificed His Son Jesus that we can be saved and have eternal life.
Let’s listen to what He tells us, what He asks of us. Be obedient to His calling and His will.
What is God saying to you?
Keep Praying and Reading His Word. Be obedient.
Exodus 34:14 NIV Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
God Will Fight The Battle For You
Just as God fought for the Israelites in Exodus 14 to free them from their bondage to slavery, He will fight to free you from any bondage you are experiencing. You must be willing to move ahead possibly going through the desert to reach the promised land but it will be worth it. God will go before you but He expects you to ask Him to be with you. Don’t get so comfortable in your sin that you want to turn back as the Israelites considered. Keep going forward. God will help you. You need to keep looking to God and staying in touch with Him by praying and reading His Word. It may be hard at times but cry out to Jesus. He will supply what you need to be free. When you feel that freedom, it will be worth it all. The longer you live with Christ and in that freedom, the sweeter and easier it becomes even when we have a battle to fight. It doesn’t always feel easy in the midst of the battle, but each time you make it through, you realize that God sustained you while making you stronger and increasing you faith.
God Teaches
I believe God uses situations to teach people. He teaches those directly involved but he also uses those situations to teach others. I want to learn what He has for me as quickly as He wants me to so that I can get through the battle. I do not want to be the one others are stumbling over. I am so thankful that we have a God that knows what He is doing because I don’t feel like I know what I am doing most of the time. He gives us guidance and fills in where we lack. He knows the right way to get it done. He works all things to good for those that love Him and are called to His purpose.
God uses all to teach us. He uses our experiences. He uses our trials. He using our loved ones. He uses our children. We always thing we are there to teach them. Many times, they are in our loves for God to use to teach us. We don’t always want to be the ones to be taught so we don’t always see this clearly because we as parent think we already know. Well open your eyes the next time your child is going through something and ask God what He is trying to teach you. You may be surprised.
He knows what it will take to teach us. He allows us to go through some tough stuff because He knows what it will take to get our attention and to move us in the direction He is trying to take us.
He is a multitasker. He can accomplish many things through one event. He can work in several lives at one time. If we could see what He was up to when we are going through a trial, we would be rejoicing like His word tell us to. Rejoice in the Lord always.
Are You Seeing Clearly?
We can’t see clearly without Christ.
Without Christ, we see as the world sees and that is not the whole picture. When we have Christ, we can see what the world cannot see or understand. We may do things differently than what would seem logical from the world’s point of view.
Seeing and living with this clear vision will seem weird to the world but will give us peace and joy that the world will not understand.
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[a]
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.” Isaiah 6:9&10(NIV)
Do we choose to not want to know the truth and forfeit the chance to be healed?
11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’[a]” Mark 4:11&12(NIV)
The only way to receive the forgiveness is to turn and ask. We don’t get better by ignoring the truth or pretending there is no problem.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7(NIV)
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. John 15:11(NIV)
Would peace and joy make life better?