How long has it been since I have pondered...well here goes:
In our bible class yesterday self-control was the topic which reminded me of obedience. Are we truly being obedient to God? We go to church, we say the right things (at least we hope most of the time), we participate in church activities. But is that what the bible really tells us to do?
The commandments that Jesus gave us were to love God and others. How do we show we love God? I find that most of the time we do as minimal as possible. How often do we sit down and visit with God. Do we talk to Him daily. Do we pray to Him daily. Do we get to know Him daily. That is do we open our bibles every day to learn what He says about how to do things. To find out what He wants for us and what are part is in knowing and doing just that. I am in my bible every morning and I still feel it is not enough. The Word says to continually seek Him, to continually abide in His Word. If we would do that the Word says that we will surely hear Him, that we would hear the Holy Spirit and He will show us how to pray to get the power of God working on our behalf.
Are you lacking any good thing? We shouldn't be. I think we cop out on our part of our relationship with God. It isn't that God isn't doing His part or it is not His will. The Word says if we lack ANYTHING seek Him and we shall have what we are lacking or want. It doesn't say He might or might not. He says He will and it says ANYTHING. But what is our part. To believe and not doubt. How do you believe and not doubt? You have to have faith. How do you get faith? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God!
We have made it tradition to cop out on our part with God. If something we have prayed for doesn't happen (that is something that does not go against another's will) we say God said "no" or "it is not His will". Never in the bible did Jesus ever tell anyone that asked Him for anything "NO" or it is not God's will to heal you, etc. It is our faith that brings out the Glory and power of God. If that was not the case then the people in Nazereth, despite their unbelief, would have been healed anyway. We try and blame God because it is easier to believe/say He said no than maybe we didn't have the faith to believe for it. There is a difference in faith and hope.
We have to get in our bibles and read for ourselves and let the Holy Spirit deal with us about what the Word says - about everything!!! He wants us to have joy, He wants us to be healthy, He wants us to live long, He wants us to multiply in all areas of our lives.
The Devil has deceived us into believing that He doesn't care if we are happy but that we should be glad we have what we have. Even if it is sickness and poverty. But the Devil twists God's Word to decieve us. And we let Him.
He has done it with the Words we speak and we wonder why we get what we say. The bible says we get what we say but we ignore that.
God is not the problem WE are the problem. You do have control over your life - the Bible says so. Read it!!
Thanks - love you all have a blessed week!!
3 comments:
Okay, who said what to get you started???
Good thoughts........
It is our own responsibility to be faithful. I agree with that, however, it is not our responsibility to tell someone else they are not faithful. Despite what you see...You can't see their heart. Paul was faithful...He asked for the thorn of his flesh to be removed but God would not because it wasn't his will.
It is true, we cannot see someone's heart. I do not judge someone's faith, I consider what is being taught.
Tradition teaches that Paul's thorn in the flesh was sickness/disease and that God did not heal him to teach Him some lesson, but the Word tells us his thorn was a messenger of Satan - God does not use Satan to teach us a lesson. An evil spirit was assigned to Paul to stop the Word from being preached.
2 Cor 12:18 "For this thing I sought the Lord 3x for it to depart from me." Paul knew his authority given to all of us by Jesus. "Resist the Devil and he will flee" (James 4:7). God didn't take Paul's thorn away because it was Paul's place to do it. God cannot resist the devil for us. "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor 12:9) He did not say that the messenger would not depart. He was saying to Paul, "My favor is enough. For when you do not have the the ability to humanly overcome, you use My name to stop Satan's attack, and My power will excel in your behalf. My favor is enough. You cast out the devil". In 2 Tim 3:11 Paul says that out of all his persecutions and sufferings the Lord delivered him. All of them! Paul was an old man when he died. He died when he felt he had finished what God and called him to do.
Another tradition says that God gets glory from sickness because the world sees how Christians bear the pain and agony w/out losing faith. Through tradition, Satan has sold it to the Church as being the will of God.
Satan knows the Word and twists it to take away the Truth of God's Word to use it against us instead of for us. It is God's will for men to be blessed, mulitiply, be fruitful and to be well. He is called Christ the Healer. God does not give us sickness, disease, tragedy or any bad thing. I have never found in the Word where God said it is His will for anyone to be sick, poor, hurt or in lack in any way. Jesus said you see Me and you see the Father. Jesus came to deliver all who are opressed of the devil. Jesus healed them all. I am not saying that if someone doesn't get healed or delivered from a problem that they didn't believe. But if they are taught that it might be God's will...that would probably make them wonder (doubt) healing or deliverance. I don't judge, I only repeat what the Word says. Why would Jesus heal or bless the poor? I would think if it was God's will for some not to be healed we would see an example in the bible where Jesus tells a person that God is trying to teach them a lesson or it is not His will for them, but He doesn't.
Why would he use healing to bring people to God, because through Jesus we are delivered from it. But we have to resist the devil and call him the LIAR he is.
The Word says to call things that be not as though they are. Why because He knows that if we look at our circumstances we will see death and destruction all around but the Word says we are delivered from it all not when we get to heaven but we can have it here on earth. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" is there death, sickness, pain, suffering, poverty or lack in heaven. No and there wasn't any here on earth until Adam fell. But from the beginning God had a way to escape the curse and even a better covenant through Jesus that through and because of Him we can resist the devil, call him a liar, bind him and cast him out in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! and he WILL flee.
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