Showing posts with label Knowing God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knowing God. Show all posts

Monday, October 15, 2012

I Acknowledge You



Proverbs 3: 5-
Do you know how sometimes you feel that God is not listening?  Or you’ve checked everything that you know according to the ordinances of God’s will, and it seems that your prayers are not reaching Gods’ ear?  It happens to the best of us.  Yet, rest assured that God hears, He understands, and He is working on your situation.

He lets us know that He hears us.  He tells us, in a subtle small way, that only God could make happen, that all is well and for us to hold out until later…(see Where Did That Come From)

You may not think that was something special, but I believe it to be God letting me know that He heard everything.  Some things may happen right away, as that incident did, and other expectations may take longer.

When things take longer than we anticipate, it’s usually because what we request from God is not His best for us at that time.  It may not be arriving on our so-called timetable, but, if we wait and allow God to be God, then we will receive the abundant, bountiful blessings of The Most High.  “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Gal. 6:9).

Consider the story of Joseph.[1]  Here was a man favored by his daddy.  Jealous brothers sold him (instead of killing him), into slavery in a foreign country, because he was “All that and a bag of chips.”  The Brother had game. (a gift).

Although a slave in his new place, Joseph was shown favor in the household of his new master.  Sometimes we too are blessed, and we think it’s the greatest blessing that God would have for us—but it’s not God’s best…(see Where Did That Come From)

Hands of God and Adam
The man was so good at what he did that the Pharaoh of Egypt called for him.  How about that?  Joseph went “From the Pit to the Palace.  In the end, Joseph’s brothers had to become submissive to Joseph because God had blessed Joseph with much more than he could ever have imagined.

Joseph had been lied about and mistreated numerous times, yet he held onto his faith in his one true God: Jehovah.  He didn’t allow circumstances to cause him to take his eyes off of God, the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2).

Sometimes, I too feel trapped and hopeless as Joseph must have; yet every time I see a butterfly, it reminds me that God loves me, and that He’s sending me something beautiful to fly across my path and brighten my day.  It’s as if God were presenting me with a present. He bestows so many little blessings on us that sometimes we don’t even notice them.

So, if you’re feeling as if God just doesn’t hear you through all of the tears you’ve shed, trust me, He hears, and, if you hold onto His promises, your reward is on its way; “…but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth” (Ps. 37: 9).

"Now Faith..."
When God tells you that you can, don’t allow anyone to tell you that you can’t.  God will never leave us or forsake us.  He’s right there saying, “I acknowledge you and better things are coming.” ― “I recently had to reread this for myself and grab hold to the promises of God”- Ms. “V”

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[1] Old Testament, Genesis: 35-47


Monday, January 23, 2012

God Does Not Argue



We may try to justify or find fault with what God wants us to do when we read the Bible. And sometimes we just refuse to accept His commands and we do our own thing.


*God Commands — We Obey*

When God says to repeat a “Word of Knowledge” or a “Word of Wisdom” to someone, we should comply. If the person doesn’t want to accept the Word, then our work as the messenger has been done. We, as the messengers, completed the work on our end; it’s up to the receiver and God to do the rest, but, if we don’t deliver, there is always someone else who will do what God asks.

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  • Beijing, China
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Now I Really Know Him


When I attended elementary school, God instilled in my fellow classmates and me a sense of how to do things on cue while we concentrated on other things.

Let me explain. During church services, we were programmed to know when the proper time came to sit, stand or kneel, especially when we would hear certain words spoken in another language. I’m not being sacrilegious, but think about it. I was brought up in a church that ministered in Latin (a language I knew little about), and, although I was present physically, I was miles away in my mind. The times that I can recall hearing and understanding what was being taught were only during the sermons of Christmas, Easter, and Lent.

The experience did teach me discipline. I was instructed in religious truths each day because catechism[1] was part of the curriculum. The Word of God touched my life early, beginning in the first grade.

This man Jesus, whom I was drilled on and taught about daily, I did not know. I knew of Him, but oh! how sweet it is to really know our Savior. We are privileged to be able to learn from the Bible how we should live and conduct our lives in order to enjoy the many things which God has for us in this world and in the world to come.



[1]an elementary book containing a summary of the principles of the Christian religion, esp as maintained by a particular church, in the form of questions and answers.

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