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These are the top 10 excuses God will happily allow for not letting the Lord Jesus be your King.
And in case any of those don’t work, try using this effective excuse:
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There are times, in every Christian’s life, when faith is so very small. Those moments come and go. And the reasons for them vary when we look at it from our perspective. But in times like those, I take heart remembering when simply speaking the word “God” was nearly impossibly difficult. And it is good to remember what the Lord said, “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.” (Matthew 12:20)
Take heart! The Lord knows your name! And in His promise, He can neither lie nor forsake. Two other scriptures enter here:
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6)
And:
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17)
We are told to tear our hearts, not our garments. If your heart is broken or shrunken before the Most High God, consider that this is a proper situation for a Living Faith.
By His Grace.
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The tree sat silent, the sound from a backyard argument pierced it’s bark. The waves of sound vibrated the fibers of the bark so slightly that no scientific instrument could measure it. And those fibers remain as the tree grows. There will come a day when that tree falls from age. Yet those fibers will have been altered forever. Though they rot and become food for the forest behind the lot where that house had stood, 300 years from now God will know what was done.
The men will have forgotten. The words will not be found echoing between two mountains forever. The air will absorb their noise quickly. But God remembers. Their hearts overflowed with anger. But those hearts are now silent. The bark was moved. But now that bark is dust. The bugs on and in that piece of bark also experienced something from the noise of their argument, as well as the grass. All will die and rot, yet God remembers.
Consider what is around you and consider how everything we do is witnessed. Yet there is a witness beyond this world. It is wise to consider what we allow our hearts to hold, lest it overflow from our tongues.
34You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.
By His Grace.
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I testify to all that God is True. I testify to all that Jesus is Able to bring you home. I testify to all that the foolish, desperate, wicked of heart, mentally deficient, physically lacking, and socially repressed and outcast, can be saved from their ailments. I testify to this because I know there is one who testifies that such is not true. And there are far more who believe in that one, than of those who rest in God’s promises.
Do not discount what I have just said. It is absolutely true and correct. But you may ask, “Then why am I not healed from those things I hate so much?” Do you really want my answer to you? “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. For all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
1 “Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not shout or cry out,
or raise his voice in the streets.
3 A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.
In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;
4 he will not falter or be discouraged
till he establishes justice on earth.
In his teaching the islands will put their hope.”
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“You cannot serve two masters”, the Lord said. In this passage He spoke of the comparison between God and money. But isn’t it true that it’s not money who sat and listened as He poured out this truth? Wasn’t it people who had the ears to hear?
So the people, being the ones to whom He spoke were to consider their allegiance to God. When you strive to have something of this world you are striving in the wrong direction. That’s the point. Money just happens to be the primary tool men use to grasp at what they want in this world.
We will become a slave to that which has mastered us. Much like this pad lock bears the name of its maker. How appropriate. I could say that the point is, don’t be locked down by a desire for anything in this world.
Frankly, money is not the object of the passage. God is the focus of Jesus’ words. As it was with all His ministry, God the Father was the singular reason He appeared before us. And God will be the focus of Jesus for eternity. In that focus He was showing us to abandon all ties to this world and seek after His Father’s will. If money is something the Father decides you need to have to accomplish His will, you will receive it. But above all seek His will first!
By His Grace.
6Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water. 7The LORD said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home.”(Judges 7)
There are those who will bow to traditions of men in their pursuit of God. And there are those who will inspect what is known about God with a keen eye. Though I will refrain from saying that all who rely on hearsay regarding the things known of God can not belong to the Lord, I will gladly say that those who inspect the Lord’s knowledge with a bend to understanding are those who are used mightily by the Lord.
Though God is quite able to affect His will without the use of men, I find that His desire is to accomplish His salvation of men by using men. Would you be used by the Lord to help Him in this work? Then present yourself to the Word of God with a keen eye. Inspect what you read. Understand your position in the Word. And listen to Truth.
We note that the others were sent home. They were still His people. But they were not chosen to fight in the coming war. Want to enter the battle for souls? Then follow their example. It was God Himself who acknowledged that those 300 were fit for battle under His Mighty Hand.
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22)
If you would be prepared to serve the Lord then position yourself to do what Jesus said. The more you devote to Him the more you can be used. Only, prepare yourself with Truth. And abandon every possible lie.
By His Grace.
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