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Believers, God is Pleased With You

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:47:18 +0000

If you are a believer and trying to practice your faith in God on a daily basis, then He is pleased with you. Think of how many people are blatantly ignoring the Lord. What about the ones who look righteous on the outside, but on the inside they are full of deception? You are not like that; you are God’s child. He loves and cares for His children.

Psalms 145:20
The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Sometimes I think we get caught up in thinking we have to do all these things right in order for God to be pleased with us. This is not true. He desires for us to continue to become more holy, but he is not condemning towards us if we fail. God sees the intention of our hearts. He knows who his real kids are and He loves them with an undying love.

If you are seeking after the things of God daily and pressing into getting closer to Him, He is pleased with you. God smiles upon his kids, the true believers who want to spend time with Him.

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Jesus Reveals Himself to Those Who Love Him

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:31:58 +0000

Since surrendering my life to God and seeking after His will for my life, I have experienced him in very real ways. When we love Him with all of our hearts and trust Him with everything in our lives, he reveals Himself to us. When we seek His Kingdom first, then we will begin to see God at work in our lives.

John 14:21
“Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and show myself to him.”

All throughout the Bible God reveals himself to those who love him in thousands of ways. God never changes. He was and is the same: yesterday, today and forever. Even today we can experience angelic encounters, supernatural healing in our bodies and the wonderful presence of his Holy Spirit. Jesus has given us the keys in our scripture that will cause him to reveal himself to us if we choose to use them.

Will you choose to obey God and love him today? If so, then He will reveal himself to you.

The Way Back To God

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:54:28 +0000

How did we get off of the path that God had intended for our lives? What is the way back to living a life with the Lord Jesus Christ? If we were traveling down a road heading towards our goal and we became uncertain as to which road to take and made the wrong choice, we would eventually end up lost. That’s what happens when we choose the path of sin in our lives… we become lost.

Matthew 18:12-14
What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

If we become lost, God wants us to come back and join him in the destination that he intended for our lives. It will be easier to meet him if we turn away from the wrong way we are headed and turn back toward him. If we continue in the wrong direction we eventually will leave our destination towards God far behind.

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Being Content With What We Have

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:11:22 +0000

What of that which we have is so important to us? Do we even know the things that we are bound to?

I once heard a story about a man testifying that he gave all the money that he had in an offering once. It wasn’t much, but it left him with nothing. He was testifying how in the years to come since that day- God has richly blessed him with so much that he has become a millionaire. He was attributing his success to reaping what he had sown that day he had given all he had in the offering. Someone in the church assembly yelled out: “I’d like to see you give all that you have now in the offering!”

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

If God has said that he will never leave us or forsake us, then what more do we need than that? Being content in knowing Him in this way should be more than enough to satisfy us. Once we have experienced a loving God working in and through our lives, the cares of what we do or don’t have will fade in the light of His presence. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

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Surrendering Our Lives to God

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:45:42 +0000

What is in your heart? Do you really desire to live a life dedicated to God? If so, then surrendering your will to Him and asking for help will come naturally.

Once I tasted of the amazing love that He gives and began to experience His presence in my life, I began to yearn for more of all that He could be in my life.

Notice in the scripture below some of the key phrases the Psalmist uses as he surrenders to the Lord.

• Teach me
• Give me
• Direct me
• Turn my heart towards
• Turn my eyes away

Psalms 119:33-37
Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end. Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Direct me in the path of your commands for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.

All we have to do is to trust Him to make the changes in our lives. The key, though, is to surrender our will to Him with sincerity of heart. Having a God-changed life is the result of having a willingness to become more God-like and letting Him do the work in us.

Try using these phrases in prayer time now and surrender various areas of your life to the Lord. If your heart seems to be far from God, then ask Him to turn your heart towards Him.