Sometimes we have seasons in our lives that try the soul!! Ha! Sometimes?? Ever had the never ending storm...??? The Jumping Tornado...??? The Earthquake with endless aftershocks and the flood ??? Oh the flood of trials that never seem to end and the rain just keeps pounding??? Sometimes??? Ever thought that you knew God loved you, but you weren't quite sure if you'd ever feel it?? Could it be dear ones that your view of God, as we mentioned in the last two blogs, has been shaped by your human experiences of man or woman?? Ya think?? Rather, we ought to have our experience of God and the truth of God we read about in His word...shape our view of man, woman and ourselves, but that's just not the way we roll is it?
Why oh Why can we not understand that our thoughts are not His thoughts..Our ways..are simply not His ways...Hear this: When we trust in our fantasies, the fantasy of man, we fall dangerously far from the glory of God's original plan!!
Friends, if you would like to over come..if you would like to get out of the belly of a stinky whale...you've got to start seeing it God's way...but the only way to the Father is through His son, Jesus Christ...!! Submit therefore your thoughts to Him..the author and perfecter of your faith...Faith is not Belief...Faith is ASSent.....!! Look up child of God and let His glorious light shine upon you...!!!
Principle:
If you don't look up, He wont fill your cup!!
Therefore dear children set your minds on things above..not on earthly things....That's where our lives are to be hidden safely in his plan..resting in His perfect hands!
Oh..be careful..Christian...Be careful who you listen to and what you see...!! Already we are told in several areas of the Bible that we are not to trust ourselves...Jeremiah 17..let alone anyone else...!! We Trust others "In Christ"..but we must remember to trust In Christ alone...!!!
Otherwise..Mushrooms look like hamburgers and snakes look like satin ribbons and spiders look like hands of mercy...!! In fact, a ministry to Israel looks like a sweet deal...!! Whoa...wait a minute...you say!! Jennifer, are you telling me that ministry to Israel is wrong?? "God is really using me"...cries Jonah..!! "God called me to do this, Jennifer"!! Jonah explains...!! Yes, God called you Jonah...but His call is not one-dimensional and is definitely not stagnant, but rather moving and expanding to levels we cannot know or understand....!! Jonah..the answer to you is "No"...Ministry to Israel is not wrong..!! But however, making that ministry more important than God's voice calling to you in the night is wrong...!! When was the last time all of you said no to God...because you were already busy serving Him??? Hmmmm!! It's an interesting question isn't it?? Well....Do not harden your hearts!!! Remember that God can send us to Egypt and then deliver us to the Promised land....!! Trust not where you serve, but the God that calls you to serve!! Hebrews 4 warns us that
Don't be deceived...Run..Run...Run to the Lord...Oh Jonah...you were deceived...!! There is a rest for you...there is a plan for you..and no matter how opposite it seems to the original path upon which God placed you...You must walk in ways that are not your ways if you are to serve God and not man..if you are to rest solely on His plan...You thought that Being God's prophet to Israel was God's gift to you...and also to your nation!! So, you ran to protect anything that would harm that gift...No No No!! Oh no you didn't!!! No! Oh Jennifer...you were deceived too!!...You exchanged the truth of God for a lie...for a gift...and ran in order to protect it...!!!
Remember that your Father knows how to give you good gifts...!! Remember His ways are the eternal promises of God, not the temporary circumstance of your present world...Go for the Glory..Go for the things of God that will never pass away...Say yes and walk in His ways...
Matthew 7:11
If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!
Ask Him for His gifts for you today...and surrender all things from yesterday!!
Perhaps we look at the gifts to know if we are loved...and we neglect to see the gift giver...the true treasure..?? Perhaps that's why we fail to receive the Love that will sustain??? Please read the following excerpt from Charles Spurgeon..and ask yourselves this morning...Do I take the gifts as love and when the storms rage wonder how I lost the love..the acceptance, the promise??? Or, do I love the gift giver above all else...?? Do I even really know Him personally as the greatest love of my life...???
Why oh Why can we not understand that our thoughts are not His thoughts..Our ways..are simply not His ways...Hear this: When we trust in our fantasies, the fantasy of man, we fall dangerously far from the glory of God's original plan!!
Friends, if you would like to over come..if you would like to get out of the belly of a stinky whale...you've got to start seeing it God's way...but the only way to the Father is through His son, Jesus Christ...!! Submit therefore your thoughts to Him..the author and perfecter of your faith...Faith is not Belief...Faith is ASSent.....!! Look up child of God and let His glorious light shine upon you...!!!
Principle:
If you don't look up, He wont fill your cup!!
Therefore dear children set your minds on things above..not on earthly things....That's where our lives are to be hidden safely in his plan..resting in His perfect hands!
Oh..be careful..Christian...Be careful who you listen to and what you see...!! Already we are told in several areas of the Bible that we are not to trust ourselves...Jeremiah 17..let alone anyone else...!! We Trust others "In Christ"..but we must remember to trust In Christ alone...!!!
Otherwise..Mushrooms look like hamburgers and snakes look like satin ribbons and spiders look like hands of mercy...!! In fact, a ministry to Israel looks like a sweet deal...!! Whoa...wait a minute...you say!! Jennifer, are you telling me that ministry to Israel is wrong?? "God is really using me"...cries Jonah..!! "God called me to do this, Jennifer"!! Jonah explains...!! Yes, God called you Jonah...but His call is not one-dimensional and is definitely not stagnant, but rather moving and expanding to levels we cannot know or understand....!! Jonah..the answer to you is "No"...Ministry to Israel is not wrong..!! But however, making that ministry more important than God's voice calling to you in the night is wrong...!! When was the last time all of you said no to God...because you were already busy serving Him??? Hmmmm!! It's an interesting question isn't it?? Well....Do not harden your hearts!!! Remember that God can send us to Egypt and then deliver us to the Promised land....!! Trust not where you serve, but the God that calls you to serve!! Hebrews 4 warns us that
Amplified Bible Hebrews 4:
4 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered
he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.
2 For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as
truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from
bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them,
because it was not mixed with faith (with [c]the leaning of the entire personality
on God in absolute trust and confidence
in His power, wisdom, and goodness)
by
those who heard it; [d]neither were they united in faith with the ones
[Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe).
3 For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God)
do enter that rest, [e]in accordance with His declaration that those
[who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath,
They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been
completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the
foundation of the world.
4 For in a certain place He has said this about the seventh day: And God rested
on the seventh day from all His works.
5 And [they forfeited their part in it, for] in this [passage] He said, They shall
not enter My rest.
6 Seeing then that the promise remains over [from past times] for some to enter
that rest, and that those who formerly were given the good news about it and
the opportunity, failed to appropriate it and did not enter because of
disobedience,
7 Again He sets a definite day, [a new] Today, [and gives another opportunity
of securing that rest] saying through David after so long a time in the words
already quoted, Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not
harden your hearts.
8 [This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For
if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another
day.
9 So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for
the [true] people of God;
Don't be deceived...Run..Run...Run to the Lord...Oh Jonah...you were deceived...!! There is a rest for you...there is a plan for you..and no matter how opposite it seems to the original path upon which God placed you...You must walk in ways that are not your ways if you are to serve God and not man..if you are to rest solely on His plan...You thought that Being God's prophet to Israel was God's gift to you...and also to your nation!! So, you ran to protect anything that would harm that gift...No No No!! Oh no you didn't!!! No! Oh Jennifer...you were deceived too!!...You exchanged the truth of God for a lie...for a gift...and ran in order to protect it...!!!
Remember that your Father knows how to give you good gifts...!! Remember His ways are the eternal promises of God, not the temporary circumstance of your present world...Go for the Glory..Go for the things of God that will never pass away...Say yes and walk in His ways...
Matthew 7:11
If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!
Ask Him for His gifts for you today...and surrender all things from yesterday!!
Perhaps we look at the gifts to know if we are loved...and we neglect to see the gift giver...the true treasure..?? Perhaps that's why we fail to receive the Love that will sustain??? Please read the following excerpt from Charles Spurgeon..and ask yourselves this morning...Do I take the gifts as love and when the storms rage wonder how I lost the love..the acceptance, the promise??? Or, do I love the gift giver above all else...?? Do I even really know Him personally as the greatest love of my life...???
"We have here crowning mercies, suggesting special and crowning thanksgiving. All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake, his mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave off shining, but our God will never cease to cheer his children with his love. Like a river his lovingkindness is always flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as his own nature, which is its source. Like the atmosphere which always surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his creatures; in it, as in their element they live, and move, and have their being. Yet as the sun on summer days appears to gladden us with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen with the rain, and as the atmosphere itself on occasions is fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore, so is it with the mercy of God: it has its golden hours, its days of overflow, when the Lord magnifies his grace and lifts high his love before the sons of men. If we begin with the blessings of the nether springs, we must not forget that for the race of man the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realisation, whereas all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year."
For meditation: Consider the common grace of God to all people (Psalm 145:9,15–16; Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:17). Do you take the gifts and ignore the Giver? Or do you receive his gifts with thanksgiving as one who believes and knows the truth (1 Timothy 4:3)?
Sermon no. 532
27 September (Harvest Thanksgiving 1863)
Oh my heavens...So,...what do we say about Who God is??? Who do you say He is this morning?? More importantly..who do you know in your heart He is this morning??
God Loves you..and Loves you perfectly..!! He made you in His image just so that you could personally relate to Him...Run to Him...talk to Him..!! Ask Him to teach you all about perfect Love...!! Ask Him to Love you with the gifts of today and surrender the gifts of yesterday into His eternity!! He'll say yes, every time...! He promised you a beautiful ending and He created you for a beautiful purpose!! Remember that God always finishes what He starts...!! It's never too late to wait upon the Lord's truth..to enter into His rest!! The Lord's love, the Lord's mercy is all yours child of God!! Remember..He died to set you free..Look up to Jesus..In faith..REach out and let Him know that you've believed in another kind of love..a love that failed..!! Perhaps like me, you've been trying to earn the Lord's love...looking for it through the blessings...the tangibles..the good times..!! Now, you're ready to love the gift giver..the miracle worker..the Pearl of Great Price...the Lamb of God who takes aways the sins of the world...the one who is waiting to hold you and protect you...!! Look!!..the lamb of God who takes aways the sins of the world...Run to Him..you wont be disappointed...
Whether there are gifts we can touch or nothing but pain, a right relationship with God showers unending love like sunshine through the rain.
Won't you run to the Perfect Love that has nothing to do with man that fails and everything to do with God loving you? Pray with me?? Lord, you are Love...and You are Good..fix my eyes on your Love Lord! We are not of this world and this world is not our home...I surrender my heart in full to you Lord..Take it...Fill it with Love that does not fail...and from now on...I seek to know you..that your light and your goodness and I want your love to define what's true for me..no more do I want a poor imitation.
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