Any Trials or Pain!
The Lord knows your pain he knows what you’re going through – the good times and the bad!
Our Knowledge has direction:
* We are to know God. Colossians 1:10 *We ought to know God’s Love. I John 4:16
*We ought to know God’s salvation. Luke 1:76-7
*We ought to know God’s truth.
1 Timothy 2:3-4
* We ought to know Scripture 2 Timothy 2:15
*We Ought to know God’s Will Colossians 1:9
Three ways I believe God reveals his will to people.
1. God will show you his will by his Word, the Bible. The better you know your Bible, the better you will know the will of God. It represents the thoughts of God, the ways of God, and shows how God operates. So as you search the Scriptures, God will speak to you.
2. Not only does God speak through his Word, but God speaks through his witness, the Holy Spirit. You can pray and ask God to speak to you through his Spirit and reveal his will to you that way.
3. God’s wisdom. We’re told that we can ask of God if we lack wisdom and he will fully and freely give it to us. Now, wisdom may come from within us, or it may come from others around us. But God wants to give us wisdom in our decisions.
So as you move forward with the difficult decisions of life, trust in God’s Word, his witness of the Spirit, and his abundant wisdom to guide your paths and reveal his will to you!
What ever trial, struggle, stronghold or temptation you may be facing bring it to the Lord this day and confess it ALL to Him and ask the Lord for His guidance. Below are “TRUTHS” to help you! I suggest you bring your situation before the Lord and prayfuly embrace the following “TRUTHS” one at a time slowly with the Lord and hear what the Spirit is telling you.
Psalms 9:10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
MOVING FORWARD
A Vision without Action is only a Delusion!
*Eight Truths I Embrace in order to Master Life!
*The Results of embracing these eight truths!
*Eight Words that go with the eight truths!
*Eight Bible References that go with the eight truths!
1) I confess my spiritual and moral bankruptcy and agree with Jesus’ words: “without me you can do nothing.”
Result: I am fully accepted and welcomed into God’s Family.
Word: I Am “Accepted”
Verse: Isaiah 55:1.
“Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”
2) I honestly admit and regret that I have failed God, my family, myself and others.
Result: I receive God’s forgiveness and thankfully rest in His Peace.
Word: I am “Forgiven”
Verse: 2 Corinthians 7:10. “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.” Or: Psalm 32:5. “I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord;” then you forgave the guilt of my sin.”
3) I sincerely ask the Holy Spirit to show me what I need to do and empower me to follow through in obedience.
Result: I am released from my need to control everything.
Word: I am “Free”
Verse: Jeremiah 9:23,24. “Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practice steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says the Lord.”
4) I actively pursue God and His will through Scripture, prayer, and accountability to my fellow followers of Jesus Christ.
Result: I am filled with God’s love, sustained by His grace and satisfied because of His work in my life.
Word: I am “Satisfied”
Verse: Ephesians 3:17-19. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
5) I extend a loving, forgiving, accepting spirit toward others and act in like manner.
Result: I am positively involved in other people’s lives, and mutually encouraged.
Word: I am “Kind hearted”
Verse: Matthew 25:37-40. “Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you or naked and cloth you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? And the King will answer them, “Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.”
6) I make a commitment to be totally honest and thereby vulnerable to the Holy Spirit, my family and friends and myself.
Result: I m being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Word: I am “Honest”
Verse: 1 John` 3:1-3. “See what love the father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world did not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”
7) I bring a message of reconciliation, healing and hope to all who are open to hear.
Result: I have the privilege of bringing God to people and people to God.
Word: I am “An Ambassador”
Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:20. “So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
8) I am fully devoted to Jesus Christ, no matter what that will cost.
Result: I courageously and joyfully accept whatever comes my way because of my loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Word: I am “Courageous”
Verse: Colossians 3:1-4. “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.”
God is King of all. He is sovereign over the affairs of man, the rise and fall of nations, and the universe itself. He knows the hairs on our heads. He knows whatever trials we are going through and their purposes. He blesses abundantly. He alone is worthy of our adoration and praise.
Lord, help me to grow in trust. Lead me, and teach me your ways. I am not worthy of your grace and yet, I have it. Father, I pray that Jesus lives in my heart each second of each day. Take control of my life by your Holy Spirit, Lord, in Jesus name I pray, Amen.