The Line of Thinking

Believers sometimes hear how someone else used their authority, and they think, I'll try that because I heard him say it. It work for him, so it will work for me. Santan knows they are not convinced of their authority, and when they try to act on God's Word without really having the Word built into their spirits, and without having the solid foundation of it built into their lives, the devil will defeat them... And defeat them soundly. And Abraham drew near and said with Thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Preadventure there be fifty righteous witnin the city; wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty richteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Genesis18:23-25). God refused to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah until  He had talked it over with Abraham, His blood Covenant friend. Abraham had received right and privilege, and has a legal standing with God. He speak plainly as he intercedes for sodom Gomorrah. Now authority has been restored to us through Jesus Christ...and when we ask God, then He can and will move. That is why it seems He can do nothing unless someone ask Him to do. Now let read this verse. The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignity rules over all (Psalm 103:19). The line of thinking is nothing less than religious humanism. The event of your life aren't unfolding by random chance. A soveriegn God rules over what happens in this small space-time box called  Earth. The world is not hanging in balance, with the outcome yet to be determined. Some people seem believe that the throngs of heaven are on one side of the stadium and the demons of hell are on the other, each hoping their side wins. Within the context of this twisted theology, it be came the tradition of men. It becomes man's decision that determine who wins and meanwhile, God is keeping His fingers crossed. With that perspective, it's no wonder that so few find spiritual rest! The line of thinking has No relationship with God. It is an insult to Gods sovereignity. It puts man's driver seat and makes God nothing more tha a nervous  passenger who doing all He can do to make sure everything turns out all right. God is portrayed as sometimes encouraging us, sometimes threatening us, but always hoping that we will respond in the right way. All of heaven isn't holding its breath waiting to see how things turn out in the end. Your God superintends this world and your life. Affirm His sovereignty and experience peace as the result. 

Talk About Stress

In the beginning, My world was little jewel of a planet with fields and forest full of amazing animals, water full of facinating fish and skies full of glorious birds. But My masterpiece was the human family My plan for human beings was that they live in harmony with each other and Me. But they wanted their own way instead of Mine. So now theres a lot sickness and sadness in My once-beautiful world. In Good new Bible, (Roman 8:16-17). God spirit join himself to our spirit to declare that we are His children. Since we are his children we will posses the blessing he keeps for his people, and we will also posses with Christ what God has kept for him for if we share Christ's suffering we will also share His glory." It is impossible to perceive all that became ours when we were born again. There is no way we can understand all that heaven like. How could we ever comprehend all that is ours as fellow heirs with Christ? The knowledge that we will share Christ's inheritance with Him absolutely astounds us! Left to our own we could not begin to understand all that we received once we became His children of the king. The Holy Spirit convince us that we are indeed children of God and help us understand the riches of our inheritance. Perhaps you did not have a loving Father. The Spirits role is to teach you how to respond to a Father who relates to you only in perfect love and how to live like a child of the king. "I consider that our present suffering are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us. Well stress is a daily companion, and you feel." you're holding the loose ends of your job together by your fingers and toes. Well listen to this twentieth-century prescription in Romans 8:18: I consider that our present suffering are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." Consider what Paul meant by our present suffering." When he wrote these words, Christians weren't facing cost-of-living scam disunity living in a corporate world. You are living under cruel system that got its kicks from throwing believers to lion den. Talk about stress. Thank you, Lord, for giving me a Roman 8:18 perspective this problem todays. The struggles i face are not worth comparing to the trials of the early church and I realize that my problems aren't worthy to be compared with the glory that will one day be revealed in me thank for this hope. 

Craving of sinful man

Look close at this verse. How would you sum up the craving of sinful man? With one word: lust

And what about the lust of his eyes? That's envy

And boasting is just another word of pride. They say that virtually every kind of sin can be traced to these three villians lust, envy, and pride. Read, "For everything in the world the craving of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does." (1John2:16). So how is the battle against those opponent going for you today? Maybe you are toying with daydream and imaging yourself in the arms of someone forbidden. Perhaps envy is enticing you to spend beyond your means in order to keep pace with the neighbors. And pride may be tempting you to run mental movies of past successes. Is all this struggling worth the effort? Wouldn't you rather sit ringside and watch someone else go his fair share of rounds against these villains today, you are in a better state than many * who have no feeling for the struggle at all. You are in a better condition than those who are stagnated apathy. The very fact that the Devil has pinpoint you as his opponent should fill your mind with hope. For to be at peace with the world, the flesh and the devil us to be at enmity with God. 

Dangerous challenge

This is where the adventure begins. Listening for My voice and then doing what I say is exciting. It's a secret just between you and Me but be sure of this. I will never conradict myself. I'll never tell you to do anything that goes against what the Bible says. Ill never tell you to do anything Jesus wouldn't have done. That's. Why its important for you to read the Bible and know my Son.  The earth is the Lord's and all it contains, The World, and those who dwell in it." There is no area of your life that is segregated from your union to God. Because you are in Him. Everything is spiritual. The Lord owns everything. This may be one of the great understanding of the Bible. God people were about to enter a new world one that was so unlike anything they had ever known that they couldn't even imagine what it would be like. The psalmist wrote, Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! " and proclaim that Christ has come, and we can rejoice in Him. So it is with the person today who moves from the wilderness of religious lifestyle and experiencing a grace walk is to compare two different dimension of living. You are one with with God through Jesus Christ. Everything in your life is intimately associated with Him through your union with Him, thus making it sacred. One man told me,  "I like to keep my business life and my spiritual life separate from each other." what a sad thing. Do we leave Christ at home when we go to work? Does He go to our business appointments with us, but do we then politely instruct Him to sit quietly in the background? Our union with Christ defines the sum total of our lives. " You have not passed this way before." (Joshua3:4). As you move further as long in your own grace walk, remember that there ls no place where legalistic religion and grace can intersect. Law and grace can never coexist together. You must move out of the wilderness today. To accept grace means to renounce legalism a system of living in which you try to make spiritual progress or gain God's blessings based on what you do. It is major move but one that will transform your life. You have great potential within you that people seldom exercise, you have ability to affect every enviroment in which you function, your very presence in a room can change the atmosphere. The grace of God in you can enable you to be a sort of "thermostat" in every place you find yourself. While others may act like thermometers and adjust to the atmosphere around them, you have the ability to change it. Jesus Christ lives inside you. And He is your source of joy. Walk in faith and allow the joy of Christ that live inside you to affect your whole demeanor. Smile, laugh Love others. Be a change agent wherever you are. As a conduit of grace you can have a greater influence than you might have imagined. Let your outward demeanor be an expression of your inner condition, where Jesus Christ lives. 

Busybodies

The cares of the universe had been resting more heavily than usual on God's shoulder, and He frankly confessed the need for a rest. "Why dont you take a short vacation, Boss?" suggested the arch angel Gabriel. "Yes, but where? "How about that place, Earth? You haven't been there for a good while." God shuddered. "No, no. It's a world of busybodies. I was there two thousand years ago and that's enough, thank you. And they're still talking about down there." Look among the nation and watch Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, thought it were told you. (Hak1:5) Christian habitually seek voice through His Word of prayer, or through His Activity, even though He is working all around us. Unbeliever see God's activity without understanding what they see. God encourages His people to watch for His activity so they will know how they should response and adjust their lives. The disciple discovered much about God power by witnessing Jesus calming a raging storm with a command. Seeing Jesus dine with the notorious sinner. Zacchaeus, taught them a poignant message about God love for sinner, watching Jesus hang upon the cross communicating a compelling message of what God was willing to do to free people from sin. Discovering the empty tomb revealed an astounding truth of God's victory over death. To those with spiritual discernment, God's activity ia significant revelation about His heart and His will. If you are senitive to what God is doing around you, He will clearly speak to you through His activity. You will know that God is at work, because what you see will astound to you, and human power and wisdom will not explain it. If things happen that are direct answer to your prayers, God is speaking to you. When you experience events that surpass your understanding and ability, it may be that God is communicating a critical message to you. If you want to hear God's voice, look around you to see what He is doing. When you are watching for God at work, what you see will reveal His character, and you will have a fresh understanding of how to respond to Him. 

The Awsome God|

Father, I am grateful that You have given me assurance of my salvation, but there are so many more spiritual realities of which I long to be certain. As I trust You in life, thank You for brightening the eye of my soul quickening my spiritual understanding. Its a tough world out there, Believe Me, I know, Sometimes people or circumstances seem to gang up on you, and  when they do, you may feel afraid. That's okay I understand, and I care. I want to help you cope with life. That's why I want you to call on Me. Tell Me your fear. I'll be right beside you in the midst of your struggles. The Israelites also praised God in the middle of a dangerous challenge. Theirs involved a large group of warriors who had gathered to fight them (2Chron.20:2). After humbly asking God for help king Jehoshapat appointed a choir to march out into the battles in front of the Israelites army. The worshiper can "Praise the Lord for His Mercy Endure forever (v.21). When they begin to sing the Lord caused the enemy forces to attack and destroyed each other. Praised God in the midst of a challenge may  mean overriding our natural instinct. We tend toward self-protection, strategizing and worry however worshiping can guard our heart against troubling thought and self-reliance. It reminds us of the lesson the Israelites learned "The battle is not ours but God." The awesome God." 

You move forward

If someone ask, "Do you know Jesus?" what would you say? "yes, I've been saved and I know I'm going to heaven." If that were your response, then good. You've just told everybody that you are justified and forgiven. But I hope you could also say, "Yes Jesus and I are intimate with each other. Let me tell you about her the kind of person He is and how much I love spending time with Him. More than a head knowledge, I desire a heart knowledge of You. If you are are preoccupied with your past, ask God to open your eyes to the incredible future that awaits you and begin, like Paul, to press on to what is ahead. "I consider them rubblish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (Philippians 3:8-9) But the good news is that when you make the simple confession to Jesus, to follow Him. "Brethen, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,  forgotting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. (V.13) In today's reading, Paul describes what is like to know Christ in terms of being justified. Of being legally positioned on God's side. Here, Paul is saying that God has done something for us on His books. It's wonderful to have the Lord impute His righteousness to us. But many Christian think that's all there is to Christianity. There's much more. After verse 9 of Philippians, Paul discusses a different kind of  knowledge of Christ. Paul no longer comments on his position, the fact that he has been "found in him.. through the righteousness that comes from God." No, Paul talk about his experience of God... I want to know  Christ and power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharingin his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. (v10-11)