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Thank you, to all who have subscribed to this blog.
If this blog has been a help or inspiration please don’t forget to pass on the url. Millions haven’t even heard the Gospel yet. Perhaps your sharing will lead to one less. All I want in this life is to share the Gospel. But gaining a voice in the world requires some serious help. I’m hoping we can enter the minds of those not yet infected with the Truth.
Again, thank you.
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Life is given by the Lord. Knowledge of what is Right comes from the Lord. Love (pure love) comes from the Lord. Prayer (effective and Holy prayer) comes from the Lord.
All the basic needs come from the Lord. And if a man has all the above three, the extra things (those things which are above basic needs) are directed into the life of the believer at the leadership of the Lord.
Without Him we have nothing but basic needs. Much like the plants and animals we survive at the basic level of life. This is where most people find themselves living. But there is a greater place of life and effectiveness here on earth.
The desire to seek and serve Him comes from The Father of Life. We are only able to ask for His help. Absolutely nothing else we can do will satisfy what is unseen and unknown to us in our base form. Every other teaching (those teachings which ignore the power and singular Righteousness of God) results in a “religion” made by man. But the Religion of God is a thing which is given. The Religion of God is an off shoot of the “tree of life” which grows up within the believer.
This is the key to understanding the difference between the “good” actions of man and the Good actions from God within His people. The world mimics God’s people because they perceive that works are the items which prompt God’s blessing. They don’t realize that the Works they witness in God’s people are not generated from those people.
All day long the world encourages each other to do the things which are “good”. But those “good” things fall short of accomplishing eternal value. For instance: A worldly man may witness a homeless man asking for money. Giving him what he asks for is the obvious answer. Perhaps, however, God has something other in mind. Considering this, a group of people might institute a social program to provide that “something more”. But they may or may not hit the mark God has in mind.
This post is something for people to consider. Man’s answers to perplexing problems rarely (as in once in every 400 years perhaps) accomplish what the Lord desired to do. With this in mind, you would think folks would ask for the Lord’s help. But where, then, would pride find a home? Since humbling ourselves before the Most High God evicts pride and the love of applause, we’re not likely to see a lot of that.
We haven’t seen such action on the part of humanity very much over our history. In fact, when we do see it, true humility usually only lasts for the generation in which it was begun. Therefore it is each man’s duty to seek what is truly God’s himself. Most people will rely on the work of others who have done this humbling activity, thinking that they are doing the work of God. This is what is meant by “man’s religion”.
http://www.hhs.gov/ Website for Governmental waste in human management. There is never waste when God is directly involved.Think about it.
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As many of my brothers and sisters, I get so very heart weary seeing people lack patience. It doesn’t seem to matter where you find them, patience is a quality of life that is almost completely ignored.
If you wait too long after the light turns green someone behind you is going to honk their horn. If you dare to say more than one sentence to the cashier you can hear the “huff” from the person behind you. People speed past the infirm and elderly on the sidewalk. The man or woman right in front of you won’t hold that door 2 seconds for you.
So what happened to considering being last as a good thing? I’m not talking about how it might be in a Church setting. I’m talking about meeting those Christians (as well as wanna be Christians) during the middle of the week. I confess that I’ve even felt pressure to leave the company of the pastor at a certain point in a conversation. So what happened?
It has to be noted that the opposite of patient living is a lifestyle of selfish concern. Hmmmmmm got patience? got selfishness?
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To my fellow humans:
I have had many a word with those who want to argue against the Gospel in various aspects. I want to reassure them that their arguments have been and are heard. They think their arguments are between humans. But I know the One who listened to the arguments they purport long before their lips spoke them.
I just wanted to put them at ease here. Your complaints are registered in your personal name at the throne of the Most High God. If you want mercy for what you’ve said, I suggest that you appeal to Jesus. If you don’t care now, I understand. And so does God. He will ask you plainly what you meant by what you said and thought. And He will certainly take into consideration how you taught your arguments to others (especially children).
So don’t worry about how I listened to you. You might have walked away from a conversation with me thinking that I was angry with you. That’s absolutely not so. I simply spoke the truth as I read it in the Bible. You are no offence to me at all. Even now, I can’t remember any specific argument with anyone about the ways of God. Oh, there’s a general sense left within me that many hate what the Bible has to say. And by that hatred I am on their short list of people they would least like to carpool to work with. Got it.
Have a nice day folks.
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Men say:
“I want: a new car, a house (a really nice house!), to matter, lots of money, tons of free stuff, to live in a tropical paradise, to be loved by everyone, to live peaceably, power among men, to never get old, to live in great ease without a single worry, to want.”
God’s response:
“I want: humble servants, godly people, obedient people, to be worshiped above all else, men and women who are ready to die rather than be selfish, a merciful people, a righteous people, people who work hard to provide for others, people who love My Son more than themselves, people full of faith regardless what comes to them, to give these people what they need, to reward according to My eternal riches, you to see Me as I am, a people with clean hands and a pure heart so they can ascend My Holy Hill.”
Who will step up from the debasing hatred of God to the place where He is loved above all other things in this world? Who will lay down everything for the hope He offers? Many say “I will”, but later do not. What is the living definition of faithfulness?
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“I can, so I will.”
This is said of the majority of mankind. They perceive an advantage is to be gained by stretching the laws of the land. They don’t notice that they’ve already determined to stretch the laws of God. So what does it matter if they push past the limits of man’s laws?
“I must, so I should.”
This is said by a handful of people who are striving with all their might to learn to love God and all His ways. They subject themselves to the laws of God. So it matters a great deal when it comes to obedience to the laws of man.
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
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