Jun 17, 2010
In class today with Troy, we were going through chapters 5 and 6 of True Discipleship by William MacDonald, I was reminded of what I wrote about in a previous post. We were in chapter 6 where William writes about faith, and how it’s based on promises from God’s Word. Here’s the section that really stuck out to me:
“Now true faith is always based on some promise of God, some portion of His Word. This is important. The believer first reads or hears some promise of the Lord. The Holy Spirit takes that promise and applies it to his heart and conscience in a very personal way. The Christian becomes aware that God has spoken to him directly. With utter confidence in the trustworthiness of the One who has promised, he rekons the promise as sure as if it were already fulfilled, even though, humanly speaking, it is impossible. Or perhaps it is a commandment rather than a promise. To faith, there is no difference. If God commands, He enables.”
How awesome is that?! It seems like every message that I hear, and every time I read from the Word, this message sticks out to me. Last Saturday, I led a house devotion in James chapter 2 where it talks about “Faith without works is dead.” How true is that? If God tells us to do something, and we trust and believe that He will enable us to do what He’s asked, then it’d be almost like slapping God in the face if we don’t do it.
I’m not saying that I don’t do this every day, because I do, I’m just asking…. why? Why do we let our flesh get in the way of acting on our faith in God? Is it because we don’t have enough faith in God and don’t trust Him? Do we find what He’s asking us to do foolish? I hate how I usually fall into that trap of not trusting or putting my faith in God, but more on my own human understanding and perspective of situations.
God knows all, sees all, loves all, and has the most perfect plan for us if only we would believe and follow without question. I’m glad that God is convicting me of this personality defect of mine, and I pray and know that He will continue to drive it out of me. I’m just glad He doesn’t give up on me when I say “I know that you’ll be with me God, and I know that with You here I can do this, but I just don’t feel like it right now, how about later?”
God is good, patient, gracious, and merciful, and I love Him so much for that. He is awesome!
Anyway… thanks for letting me rant for a bit 🙂
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Jun 15, 2010
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy1:7
Recently, I have been reading through the book of Joshua in my quiet times. I really like Joshua because it seems as though God is always telling him not to be afraid, be strong and courageous, or I am with you whereever you go. Which really hits home for me. I can’t count how many times I will be in a situation that I have NO clue what I’m doing, or how I’m going to get through. So, while reading the book of Joshua, and having 2 Timothy 1:7 memorized, God always reminds me that He is with me. He will provide the wisdom and guidance and words to say in any situation if I ask it of Him in faith.
I don’t have to be afraid of ANYTHING because God is looking out for me every moment of every day. I don’t have to worry about the future, because God had a plan for me before I was even formed in my mother’s womb. I don’t have to focus on the negative, becuase I am a child of God, and I have Romans 8:28 to fall back on with the promise that ALL things work for the good of those who love God.
God is so good! He has provided promises for us to fall back on when things seem like they are getting worse, when in reality, God has it under control, and all we have to do is trust Him and go along for the ride.
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Jun 10, 2010
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
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Jun 3, 2010
6/3/10
Tonight we will be going evangelizing. This is a scary thing for me. Talking to people I don’t know and feeling like I am going to be rejected at any moment is not fun. However the Lord reminded me of a song a couple days ago. It is called ‘Our God is Greater’ by Chris Tomlin.
The bridge goes …
and if our God is for us
then who could ever stop us
and if our God is with us
then what could stand against…
It is from Romans 8:31 which says
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
They are merely men and He is God! What do I have to fear?
I am to live before an audience of one not many.
And the possibility of me getting rejected NOW is so much more worth the latter which is them being REJECTED in heaven b/c someone (me) wasn’t willing to share the Gospel with them.
So out I shall go with the Lord and His Spirit…in Boldness and love
if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
and if our God is with us, then what could stand against… 🙂
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Jun 2, 2010
“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you , being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height– to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:14-19
This is my prayer for all of our brothers and sisters in India, in the Bridge of Hope centers, in my School of Discipleship class, in the people at Gospel For Asia, and for all of you reading this. That we all would learn to depend on God for everything, because He created us, and knows us and His purpose for us is more than we could ever imagine.
That we all would be rooted and grounded in love so that even if we don’t have any earthly things in common, even if we don’t speak the same language, we still have Christ’s love in us that makes us one body, we are unified in Christ.
And that we would all know the love of Christ that supersedes all knowledge, and to be filled with the fullness of God.
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