Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. – PSALM 40:4
Category Archives: Bible Verse
Why God wants us to appear foolish
I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13, NLT)
People think I am crazy, that is no joke.
They think I am nuts to believe that God would be so good to me, that even though the odds are stacked far against me, that He would get me a job in England and give me money to move there.
But doesn’t the word say that it is our faith that moves mountains! It is not our “kind of-maybe-sometimes-a-little-bit-half-hearted-belief,” but our Faith!
What is faith?
The Bible says that “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” (Hebrews 11:1)
I have been assured by God that His will for me is England.
When God gives us a call on our life it is wise to give it back to God saying “I am believing that you are calling me to do this, at this time, if it is not you God then please redirect my steps.”
If He does not redirect our steps then He wants us to just have faith and believe.
He wants to open the doors for us to the miraculous so that other Christians will be amazed at what He has done and begin to trust Him to work in their life in a greater way.
God wants unbelievers to see our faith and hunger for God’s hand in their own life.
What is the radical thing is God calling you to believe for?
Have you given it back to God?
Have you stepped out in faith and shared with others?
If you are waiting to share about Gods goodness until “after” He makes “it” happen, then you will not have the “FAITH IMPACT” on others that you were supposed to have.
Jesus never told anyone “your kinda believing has made you whole” or “Never have I seen such great half-hearted belief.”
I believe that God wants us to look like fools, so that when He comes through people will notice!
Jesus is calling you out to the deep.
Believe Big and when God settles in your heart what to believe for, Share Bigger!!!
I have no idea what is in store for me there but I know that God’s plans for me are good.
As are His plans for you!!!
So believe your marriage will be restored!!!!
Believe that your sick child will be made whole!!!!
Believe that you will succeed in your business!!!!
And even believe that God will make a way and a life for me and my son in England!!!!
Remember…
We are call believers not watch-wait-and-seeers!”
Watch God and be amazed!!!!
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Why I am standing here
“having done all … stand firm.”
(Ephesians 6:13)
God is faithful!!!!
If I go to my grave never having grasped anything of real importance, I know that I know this, God is faithful, steadfast and true!!!!!
Right now I feel a bit like the Israelite’s who have been lead out of slavery, but have their captors giving chase and have been lead to what looks like their certain doom by a God who says He loves them.
They are facing the Red Sea with the Egyptians getting closer by the second thinking, “this is where we die.” They have no idea the AMAZING thing that God is about to do. The path that He is about to make open up before them.
Likewise, I have followed God to this place. He told me to give notice to my landlord, He told me to leave my job, He told me to prepare for England, and what jobs to Apply to, He even told me to start this blog and share about His faithfulness.. I have the Egyptians at my back, getting ever closer and I have an ocean before me which cannot be crossed without a miracle from God.
So I will Stand!!!
I will dig in my heals and believe and declare LOUDLY that God, MY GOD, is faithful!!!
That God is trustworthy!!!
Sit back and watch and be amazed as He parts the red sea in my life. And Believe Him to do the same in yours.
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Put this on your wall to be blessed!
“From now on, you go and listen to what GOD, our God, says and then tell us what GOD tells you. We’ll listen and we’ll do it.”
GOD heard what you said to me and told me, “I’ve heard what the people said to you. They’re right—good and true words. What I wouldn’t give if they’d always feel this way, continuing to revere me and always keep all my commands; they’d have a good life forever, they and their children! – Deut 5:27-29
As I read this I could not help but weep for two reasons
- I wept because I felt Gods broken heart
- I wept because of our lost potential
I wept because I felt Gods broken heart
There is no denying it, God has given me a heart that is tender for Him. I often weep when I am reading scripture and see how much He loves us and how much He has been “long-suffering.”
When I read, I am not fooled into thinking that it was only “they” those who lives in Biblical times, that pained my God’s heart, no, I realize that far too often it is I that have caused Him to suffer.
We all have.
Far too often we get lulled into focusing on “the world” around us, which causes us to lose track of the fact that God has a heart that aches for us, a heart that is saddened when we forget Him or deliberately turn our backs on Him.
Yes, God is strong enough to “take it,” yes, God will forgive us when we “give it,” and we all have times (especially as baby Christians) when wrestling with God is something we need to do, if only to realize that He will still love us when we come out the other side, but in every-day, regular life, we need to be a people who care about hurting God.
We need to love God more than anything else and put Him first in all we do….which leads to why
I wept because of our lost potential
My heart breaks over how much time I have wasted. God says that if we just keep our eyes on Him that He would give us a good life.
Now, that God life will look different for each person (in other words it’s not all about money), however, I know, that I know, that I know, that God’s heart for us is that He wants to love and be loved by us and in that, wants to bless us. But just not randomly, He wants to bless our socks off.
While some people do not believe that I do.
God is love, and all good things come from him.
God gave us the ultimate gift already, Jesus, He is a giver.
Plus it has always been my experience that as God blesses others I notice.
And as God blesses me people notice. People who love God, and people who do not.
Why wouldn’t God want to get “the worlds” attention by showing how wonderful a father He is, by always providing for all our needs, and by giving us many blessings that we do not deserve?
Yet, I along with others of my faith, our faith, have wasted precious time by going my own way, by aligning my heart with a desire instead of with God.
As a result others that needed to see His goodness, did not.
Now I am not sure exactly what percentage of part I play in God’s orchestration of bringing others to Him but even if I was 1% of the equation, I am grieved that I made it 1% harder for someone to come to Christ.
I am going print and post Deuteronomy 5:27-29 to remind myself what is important, to remind myself that as Jesus said I am to love God and then I am to love others. Care to join me?
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Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), Dt 5:27–29.
Best defense = Good offense
“But GOD told me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t do it; don’t go up to fight—I’m not with you in this. Your enemies will waste you.’ ”” (Deuteronomy 1:42, The Message)
Trusting God is more than just believing He will bring us through a hard time, or bring us our next blessing, Trusting God with all that we are means that before we make those important decisions that we ask God what He thinks about it first.
How many times do we say, “Man I wish I would have known what I know now to help me make that decision?”
Well you can (somewhat). If you bring it before God, He will not let you do anything outside of His perfect will for you. And no matter what that looks like, it will ultimately be good as He is good and loves you so very much!”
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I Am Trusting God 