الإيمان والأمل والحب

Many of us believe we have as much of God as we want right now, a reasonable portion of God among all the other things in our lives. Most of our thoughts are centered on the money we want to make, the school we want to attend, the body we aspire to have, the spouse we want to marry, the kind of person we want to become…. But the fact is that nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God; it’s about eternity, and nothing compares with that. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.

Francis Chan, Crazy Love (via an-ge-lo)

(Source: angelo-writes)

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand. Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food. Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature-for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

Hebrews 5:11-14 (HCSB)

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

2 Peter 1:2-4

WE ARE NOT ALL ALIKE

We ought to be fully aware that in the body of Christ we are not interested in the production of “cookie-cutter” Christians.

This is a word of caution in the matter of Christian experience-there is no pattern or formula for identical Christian experiences. It is actually a tragic thing for believers to try to be exactly like each other in their Christian faith and life.

I have probably been overly cautious about testifying to my own experiences because I do not want anyone to be tempted to try to copy anything the Lord has done for me.

God has given each of us an individual temperament and distinct characteristics. Therefore it is the office of the Holy Spirit to work out as He will the details of Christian experience. They will vary with personality.

Of this we may be sure: whenever a person truly meets God in faith and commitment to the gospel, he will have a consciousness and a sharp awareness of the details of that spiritual transaction!

Verse:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
-Ephesians 2:10

Thought:

It is the office of the Holy Spirit to work out as He will the details of Christian experience.

Prayer:

“Lord, you made me to be something special, and I love you for nurturing me and growing me to be just what you want. Mold me and make me after your will.”

Glorious Contradiction

God has reveled so many contradictions in the lives and conduct of genuine Christian believers this is a small wonder that we are such an amazement to this world.

The Christian is dead and yet he lives forever. He died to himself and yet he lives in Christ.

The Christian saves his own life by losing it, and he is danger of losing it by trying to save it.

It is strange but true that the Christian is strongest when he is weakest and is weakest when he is strongest. When he gets down on his knees thinking he is weak, he is always strong.

The Christian is in the least danger when is fearful and trusting God and in the most danger when he feels the most-confident.

In my anguish, I cried to the Lord and He answered by setting me free. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalm 118:5-6 (via amartyrschallenge)

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Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in YOU. Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the taunt of fools. I am speechless; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done. THANK YOU LORD!!!

Psalm 39:7-9 (HCSB)

We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand. Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food. Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature-for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

Hebrews 5:11-14 (HCSB)

Lord, do not abandon me; my God, do not be far from me. Hurry to help me, Lord, my Savior.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

Psalm 38:21, 22; Hebrews 4:15,16 (HCSB)

Into your hands I commit my spirit;
deliver me, Lord, my faithful God. I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love. Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

Psalm 31:5, 7-10, 14, 16, 23, 24 (NIV)

Lord my God, I called to you for help,
and you healed me. Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people;
praise his holy name. To you, Lord, I called; to the Lord I cried for mercy: Hear, Lord, and be merciful to me;
Lord, be my help.” You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever.

Psalm 30:2, 4, 8, 10-12 (NIV)

The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me. My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior. Teach me your way, Lord; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27:1, 7-9, 11, 13, 14 (NIV)

In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant. Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Psalm 25:1, 4-7, 10, 12, 14, 16-18, 21 (NIV)

He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’

Luke 16:31 (NIV)