edification corner

Ironside SG

You can gauge yourself of how much you trust God by how much you tell Him

Ps 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;

Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us

It is a universal law that you cannot truly pour your whole heart out on a person if you do not, at first, wholly trust that person. If thats true with regards to our horizontal relationship with our fellowmen, thats also true with regards to our vertical relationship with God. You cannot pour your whole self out to God if you do not completely trust Him first.

The phrase at all times in Trust in Him at all times, you people; signify completeness. God wants you to trust Him fair whether or bad whether. Rain or shine. In health or sickness. Good times or bad times. In employment or unemployment and etc. Show me a person who is like that and Ill show you a person who trusts in God completely. Show me a person who is like this and Ill show you a person who pours his whole heart out to God.

The word heart in Pour out your heart before Him; means the whole inner being. He opens himself out to God. His thoughts, his plans, his emotions, his frustrations, his disappointments, his victories, his failures, his sins and etc.

How much do you trust God my friend?

1) Are you pouring all or are your pouring only some?
2) When something comes up, what is your first recourse of action? Do you pray first before you fix the problem or do you fix the problem first and then pray? If the former, do you do this every time something comes up or some of the time only?
3) Whats your level of communication with God?

A book by John Powell entitled: Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? gives us the five levels of communication:

Level 5> this is superficial communication. Or Cliché conversation: Hi how are you? Where have you been? I hope we can get together soon I like your dress very much.

Level 4> we repot facts to each other. WE remain contented to tell others what so and so has said or done. We offer no personal, self-revelatory commentary on those facts, but simply report them

Level 3> It deals with ideas and judgments.

Level 2> it deals with feelings. I am afraid. I feel happy I feel disappointed
[by the way, rarely do husbands and wives reach this stage, maybe that explains the misunderstanding and the breakdown in most marriages or homes].

Level 1> most personal and intimate level of communication. Secrets, feelings and other deeply personal things take place here. This is gut level honesty. This is where marriages thrive. Fellowships become meaningful and prayer becomes deeper. Its pouring your heart out.

Whats your level of communication with God? Your level of communication with Him determines how much you trust Him.

Behind Pauls injunction to pray to God always is the call to trust God all the time.

Pour your heart to God my friend all the time, all of it.

Ironside SG

2Co 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

God uses people like us to comfort other people. We Christians are ministers [Epe. 4:12-13]. Sometimes God allows things that squeeze our comfort zones to happen in our lives so that we can empathize, sympathize, be sensitive and therefore comfort other people who are in the same predicament as ours. Like you and me this brother, that sister, that new Christian down there, that long time Christian up there also has their own share of fears and doubts, failures and weaknesses, victories and strengths, dissappointments and frustrations and discouragements. Like you and me they are also humans, though saved.

What a comfort it is indeed to have a warm, intelligent, sensitive and sympathetic human being to have on our side who went through the same things as we have in our days of misery and trouble. Our Christian brethren needs our warmth, our understanding, our listening ear, our time and our prayers..lets not wait for God to give us some thing that will make us sensitive to them.

Ironside SG

Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent,

7 And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

These verses pertain to Israel when God will finally restore Israel in the land of promise during the Millennium when the Lord returns. He will rule all over the earth with peace, prosperity and righteousness for a thousands years with Israel as the top nation.

The statement I have set watchmen on your WALLS, O Jerusalem imply that Jerusalem or Israel has been laid desolate but not forever. The time will come when God will once again show favor to Israel [after the Church is completed Romans 11:25-26] and fulfill all His promises made to them.

God sets up watchmen or intercessors to remind Him always [day and night] of His promises He made to Israel and their fathers [Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David and etc]. It doesnt mean of course that God has a propensity to forget cognitively His promises like we sinful creatures do. God wants them to keep anticipating the fulfillment of His promises or to wait on the Lord. God is delighted and glorified when believers hang on His promises and anticipate the fulfillment of His Word. Its worshipping Him.

Practical Application:

Though this promise is made to Israel only, this does not mean that we [Church Age people, Christians] cannot benefit from it. By studying it we can somehow get a glimpse of the character of God, of who God is. God is a God who wants to be reminded of His promises always. Remind God of His promises He made to you. Do it always in prayer. He is not irked by it. He delights in it.

Tips

1) Know of whom the promise is made. Is it for a particular person? Is it made to a specific group of people [Israel]? Is it made to Church Age people [Christians]?
2) Know the time frame [if there is] of when the promise will have fulfillment.
3) Know if the promise has conditions in order to have fulfillment.

P.S. Rightly divide the Word of truth. Do not claim promises not made to you [member of the Church]. There are promises made to the Church and there are promises made to Israel. Mostly, promises made to the Church are spiritual while promises made to Israel are both spiritual and temporal and material. There are preachers who cite Deuteronomy verses as their basis that God wants them to be rich and wealthy when they will obey Him. But Deuteronomy verses are Gods promises to Israel, the people of whom He made the Old Covenant. These verses [Deuteronomy verses] would ultimately have fulfillment during the Millennium not during the Church Age.

Ironside SG

Very Happy i deleted the posts.....i believe it has little edificatory value

Ironside SG

Sanctification: Your Part

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

Sanctification essentially means being separated. The word actually is neutral. It could be either bad or good depending upon which you are separated unto. You could be sanctified or separated UNTO a particular work like the Levites. Or you could sanctify yourself to TO evil purposes. However, when speaking of the sanctification brought by the Lord Jesus, sanctification is a separation unto God from the world. Separation from a life of sin to godliness.

Sanctification has two aspects : positional and progressive.

Positional > the moment one trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation, right there and then he is positionally set apart unto God with regards to his standing before Gods eyes. In the eyes of God a Christian is holy no matter how imperfect he is in this world because of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Progressive> this is the process by which God separates the Christian [with regards to his character] from the world. This is where God makes holy the sanctified sinner. You, see the moment we trusts in Christ we dont immediately become holy and godly perfectly. There are still traces of sin in us. God through His Holy Spirit does this character cleansing in us. The Holy Spirit makes us like Him, holy. He is right there in us, working in us that we be holy. He is the One that gives us godly and holy desires, enabling and empowering us to live godly and holy lives only if we would just cooperate with Him. Thats His part.

But before we think that holiness and godliness is something that we could just sit around and wait for it to drop on our lap, Peter gives us our side of sanctification.

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness.

Peter says words that imply discipline: giving all diligence add to your. Yup, we must work to be holy. We must train ourselves to be holy. We must be diligent to be holy. We must be willing to be led by the Holy Spirit in His training for holiness. In justification, it is a work of one. God solely justifies us on the basis of our being in Christ. In sanctification [progressive], the work is of cooperation. We must submit our wills to the Holy Spirit. In any kind of sport, you wont be in tip-top shape if you dont cooperate with the trainer.

God doesnt just want you to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, He wants you to be like Him. He doesnt just want you to have faith in Christ, He wants you to add to that faith the godly virtues of Christ.

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love

Holiness does not only require time, it requires your DILIGENT EFFORTS. If you complain that you have been praying to God to change you and you still havent got it yet. Ask yourself: am I giving all my diligent efforts in it? Or am I just sitting around waiting for it to drop from heaven? The trainer is always in the gym. Have you been diligent in going there?

Ironside SG

By babyys:

The Lord is my REAL Boss, and I shall not want.

He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me.

He gently reminds me to pray before I speak,

and to do all things without murmuring and complaining.

He reminds me that He is my Source, and not my job.

He restores my sanity everyday and guides my decisions

that I might honor Him in everything I do.

Even though I face absurd amounts of emails, system crashes, unrealistic
deadlines, budget cutbacks,

gossiping co-workers, discriminating supervisors,

and an aging body that doesn't cooperate every morning,

I will not stop - for He is with me!

His presence, His peace, and His power will see me through.

He raises me up, even when they fail to promote me.

He claims me as His own.

Even when the company threatens to let me go,

His faithfulness and love are better than any bonus check.

His retirement plan is out of this world!

When it's all said and done,

I'll be working for Him a whole lot longer.

And for that, I bless His Name!

AMEN

Ironside SG

2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith

To examine oneself if he or she really has an interest in Christ is a biblical command. Satan is a deciever. Sometimes he makes unsaved people think that they are saved and saved people think that they are unsaved. And so the need for self-examination.

Don't look for perfection in you. That's too much. We all have areas of weaknessess.

Look however for

1) Conviction of sin [no matter how small] Have you seen yourself as helpless with regards to salvation and righteousness?

2) Have you relied on the Lord Jesus alone for salvation nothing and no one else?

3) Were there godly changes [no matter how meager] after you got saved?

4) Is there obedience?

5) senstivity to sin?

6) separation from the world?

7) repentance from sin?

8] spiritual growth?

Though not all genuine believers will immediately exhibit godliness [ since spiritual growth of individual believers vary] .....it is expected that somehow somewhere, sometime he will manifest holiness and godliness.

Ironside SG

Php 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Good thing the verse does not say: for it is God who works in you TO FEEL, to will and to do for His good pleasure. Otherwise I would seriously doubt if God is really at work in me, sanctifying me. Because times are many when dry spells visit me. When the cheer of feelings cannot be heard. Wherein feelings run counter to what I must do.

I do not always feel like doing Gods will. I do not always feel like praying, reading Gods Word and ministering to a brother in need. Rather many a time I do those things on the basis of my WILLING not my FEELING. Had I anchored my obeying the Word of God solely on the spur and spark of my feelings I would not have obeyed God most of the time if not all the time.

Have you experienced purposely doing Gods will even though your feelings hollered: No. I dont feel like it!!!!!!!!!!!!? You did it even though you did not feel like doing it. You know what. Thats God working in you. Your spiritual muscles get stronger every time you do that. It requires a lot of faith to do that. Our spiritual muscles do not really get that worked up if we are aided by the shove of our feelings.

Time will come when you will be put in a situation where you must choose what you must do as opposed to what you feel. Time will come when you will be placed in a situation where you must sacrifice your Isaac than follow what your feelings dictates. When you do that. Thats God working in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Dont miss to take advantage of those situations wherein feelings oppose what you must do by obeying what God wants in that particular situation. They train you for the big event.

Ironside SG

1Ti 2:1: Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

You see that man walking down the street? You know whatyou could be the only Christian in his life that has been given the opportunity to pray for his salvation. Millions upon millions of lost souls have never got the opportunity to be prayed up by a Christian either because they have never encountered a single Christian in their lives or because most Christians are indifferent, cold and has no concern for lost souls who will spend their eternity in hell.

Paul tells us to pray for all men. That we be concern for the salvation of others. Why dont you start exercising your prayer muscles now. This time for other people. Do it now. Who will you pray for? Look there are unbelievers here in the forum whom you know right? Lets start with them.

Ironside SG

Heb 3:13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Let's focus on those words: "..........hardened through the decietfulness of sin."

Sin is decietful it parades before your eyes the pleasures of sin and makes you delay repentance to another future time.

Sin says:" ah enjoy sin for now, later you can repent" And so the guillible sinner bit the bait and wallowed in a sinful and profligate life.

Not knowing that all the while, while he was wallowing in sin, sin insidously and subtly hardens his heart to repentance. Until a point of no return is reached when the heart is so hardened, the conscience becomes soo dead, the ear so deaf to the call of repentance, the eyes so blind to light that the state of the unpardonable sin is reached.

One of the terrifying statements in the Bible is this:

Isa 22:14 Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, "Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

The iniquity in this verse speaks of the people's hearts so impervious and hardened to the call of repentance that they have reached in their hearts the point of no return.

It is not that God refuses to forgive, rather it is the people so hardened by sin that they will never accept forgiveness and mercy. They would rather wallow in sin than accept God's forgiveness.

How about you? Do you still feel the pangs of conscience in you and still want forgiveness? That's a good sign that you have not reached the unpardonable sin. Claim it now and repent.

For us believers, be warned of enjoying 'small' sins for it is still sin and can hardened your heart. It will damage the name of Christ in front of unbelievers and ruin your testimony.

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Ironside SG

The secret to Christlikeness

"...............Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:27

How could a Christian live a Christ-like life in this fallen world?

Where a triumvirate of enemies dog his steps. There's the a) seductions of the world, b) the temptations of Satan and c) the inward pull of our remaining corruption, the sinful nature in us.

With all these, how could it be possible to live the Christ-like life required by God to us Christians? Does He know that the battle is overwhelming and seems like an up-hill climb for us?

The answer to all those questions are found in that verse my friend. The God who requires Christlikeness in us is also the same God who does these very thing in us.

He knows that you are weak, He knows that you are no match against the world, Satan and the sinful nature in you. That 's why He came and indwelt you. What you need to do is to let Him live His life in you.

The reason why you fail and stumble and falter in the Christian life, the reason why you burn out spiritually is because you have been trying to live your life on your own strength and resources. Oblivious to the fact that there is a PERSON INDWELLING YOU ready to take over anytime you give Him the controls of your life.

JUST LET HIM LIVE HIS LIFE IN YOU.

How to do it?

In the front page of my Bible i wrote these words i have read in one of my readings. I wrote it down, first, to remind myself of it everytime i open my Bible and secondly, because it is an eloquent and clear statement of how to let the Lord Christ live His life in you:

"Relate every thing, moment by moment as it arises, to the adequacy of what He is in you, and assume that His adequacy will be operative."

The more often you do this the more often you will be Christlike. When this will become your habit, the higher you are in the sanctification ladder my friend.

Ironside SG

Ac 26:24 Now as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad!

Paul obviously got His learning from revelation direct [God directly speaking to him] and revelation written [Old Testament Scriptures].

I have heard of people here in my place warning other people not to read the Bible [God's revelation] becuase the Bible can make one go insane and mad. I find that an echo of what Festus said here.

Paul have been telling Festus about the death and resurrection of the Lord when Festus cut in and impetously called Paul crazy.

Well, what can i say, i am glad that Paul got "crazy", if he didn't, he would not have stopped persecuting and murdering those Chrstians. He would have still been enslaved by the power of sin. If Paul did not go "crazy" he would have been in hell right now.

Paul was wise when he became a "fool" for Christ.

I remember a true story of a Western man visiting an island where tribal aborigines dwell. As he was having a walk, he noticed a native aborigine reading a Bible and discouraged the native from reading it. He said: "What, do you believe in that book?, Why, that book is a book of fables and myths"

The native look up and said: "If it weren't for this book, you would have been our lunch by now."

Ironside SG

Have you not noticed: Spiritual giants have always been men who have spent some time in seclusion and meditation.

Here are some personages in the Bible:

1) Moses before he went back to Egypt spent years in the backside of the desert.

2) David before he came into the public scene of Israel [to shepherd Israel so to speak] spent sometime alone with God tending sheep in the hillsides of Judea.

3) John the Baptist before his ministry spent some time in the desert alone with God.

4) Paul before he turned public in his ministry spent some time alone in Arabia with God.

5) The Lord Jesus Himself before the start of His 3 year ministry spent 40 days in the desert.

Why does the Church now in these latter days lack spiritual giants? Because most of us spent most of our time devouring T.V. shows than eating soul food, than meditating on Gods Word. Lovers of visual pleasure than lovers of Gods Word. Most of us are willing slaves to the tube [T.V.]

I am not against T.V. of course. Watching T.V. per se is not sin or unlawful. It has served Christianity since its invention by being a tool in spreading the gospel.

No doubt if Paul were still alive today he would have used it to spread Gods Word. But what I am against is when T.V. is given more time than the personal meditation of God's Word, when T.V. is not helpful anymore to the edification of our souls. When T.V. has become an enslaving object.

1Co 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Spend some time meditating on Gods word brother or sister..thats how the giants became giants.

Ironside SG

I have heard of a separation letter by a young communist to his fiancée. Here he explains why he cannot carry on their relationship:

..There is one thing I am in deadly earnest, and that is the communist cause. It is my life, my business, my religion, my hobby, my sweetheart, my wife, and my mistress, my bread and my meat. I work at it in the daytime and dream of it at night therefore..I cannot carry on a friendship, a love affair, or even a conversation without relating it to this force which both drives and guides my life. I evaluate people, books, ideas and actions according to how they affect the communist cause and by their attitude toward it. Ive already been in jail because of my ideas and if necessary I am ready to go before a firing squad.

Our generation of Christians is an uncommitted generation. Nothing to die for. Nothing to live for. If a communist can be this for communism how much How much more can we be this for Christ.

What a rebuke to many of us!!!!!

How can a communist be this for the ideology of communism and a Christian so cold in his commitment to the one who love him most, that He gave him His life so that he will be saved from the fires of hell.

The communist have stolen our fire. Most of us are cold in evangelism, indifferent for Gods glory and uncommitted to Christ.

Ironside SG

Hey, why dont we talk about basic theology today? Theres nothing wrong with theology as long as it can be shown to be biblical. You all know the meaning of theology right? A study of God.

At the risk of being rudimentary, I would like to talk about the Trinity. Why do we need to study about it? Well, because it is important to know who God is as taught in the Bible. Otherwise we would be worshipping other gods. A god of our own imaginations and makings. God said: thou shall not have any gods before me Knowing who God is, is fundamental to worship.

Many of us are practically idolaters even though we believe that there is no other God but the God of the Bible. Many in our ranks think that God is an old man with a long beard up there in heaven. And if you think God is like that and worships God like that, you are committing idolatry my friend. That is not the God of the Bible. That is the god of your own making.

When the Israelites crafted an image of a calf in the skirts of Mount Sinai they did not intend to worship other gods beside Jehovah. No. They intended that calf to represent Jehovah. Listen to the words of Aaron:

Ex 32:4 And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

5 So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD."

They erroneously thought that Jehovah was someone like this calf [maybe from the influence of the pagan nation Egypt]. See that word LORD there?

In Hebrew it is the name of God given to Moses before he went to Egypt for a rescue mission. YHWH that is. Jehovah or Yahweh or YeHoWaH. Clearly they did not intend to worship other gods other than YeHoWaH. But because of their error that God can be represented physically through symbols, they fell into great error and idolatry.

Time and space will not allow us anymore to discuss the Trinity. We will tackle that in the next post.

Practical Application

Knowledge of who God is, is paramount in the Christian life. The more you know who God is, the more blessed will be your worship.

Read your Bibles daily.

Here we see the error of other groups who excuse their images and statues as representation of God. But even that is clearly wrong as we have shown above.

I have nothing against these other groups personally. I do not have any quarrel with men. I can engage in a healthy debate with them, yes, but I have no personal ill feelings toward them. The God I know in the Bible commands me to love them.

It's just that, speaking the truth in love, they are committing what Aaron and the Israelites committed. Idolatry.

breytonhartge SG

Let God Be God of the Present

Some trust in and boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 20:7

There are many facets of faith. The most brilliant facet, however, is trust!

Trust is something we have, and we decide what to do with it. We decide in whom or in what to put our trust.

We must remember Who delivered us in the past and know Who will deliver us in current troubles, then take our trust and put it in the right place, which is in God alone.

Trust has certain identifying characters. Trust is not upset, because it has entered into God's rest. Trust is not confused, because it has no need to lean to its own understanding. Trust does not indulge in carnal reasoning, it lets God be God.

In whom have you placed your trust? In what have you placed your trust? Is your trust in your job, employer, bank account, natural talents, or friends?

Perhaps your trust is in yourself, your past record of successes, education, or possessions. All of these things are temporal. They are subject to change. Only the Lord changes not. He alone is the Rock that cannot be moved.

Choose to place your trust in God. It requires a greater faith, but it pays outstanding dividends.

breytonhartge SG

Faith is now, but the manifestation IS IN DUE TIME. So don't become impatient.

For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance,
so that you may perform and fully accomplish
the will of God, and thus receive and carry away
[and enjoy to the full] what is promised.
HEBREWS 10:36

THE HEBREW BELIEVERS were suffering deeply for their faith and the writer to the Hebrews was concerned that they not "fling away [their] fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward" (Hebrews 10:35). Faith must look beyond the present moment and tomorrow and your lifetime, Faith looks to eternity. You are a Christian for eternity, not for time. Weigh the eternal rewards coming your way against whatever losses you may suffer in this lifetime because of your faith in Christ. There is no comparison.

By His grace continue to patiently believe His Word and hold fast to the truth. The things you have believed, continue to believe. If the storms gather against you and the darkness descends, remember that the morning will dawn. Let your hope hear the distant hallelujahs that proclaim the coming reign of Christ. Rest in the assurance that the kingdom of God will win the day, even if you must step into eternity to enjoy it.

breytonhartge SG

God permits in His wisdom WHAT HE COULD HAVE altered or prevented in His power.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. (JOB 13:15)

WHO CAN IMAGINE the depths of grief or the suffering of the man whom God called "My servants Job"? His ten children perished. From head to toe his body was covered with boils and blisters. His staggering wealth vanished. His wife's only recorded words were a bitter directive to "renounce God and die!" Even his longtime friends, who should have brought comfort, and who should have known better, instead accused him of being a hypocrite in need of repentance. All because of Satan's hatred for Job, and because God was willing to allow Job's faith to be tested. "And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in you hand; only spare his life"(Job 2:6).

As a believer, you know your faith will be tried, and Job's life demonstrates it can be tested to the extreme. You may taste of life's bitterness--you may taste more than you could have imagined--but hear God's words to your soul:"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose"(Romans 8:28 KJV). Come what may, know that through the Spirit's help God's purpose shall be accomplished. Rest in His unchanging wisdom!

breytonhartge SG

True Faith is timeless. It can only be INTERRUPTED by two things--doubt or manifestation.

Jesus said, Take away the stone.
Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed,
But Lord, by this time he [is decaying and] throws off an
offensive odor, for he has been dead four days!
Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you
that if you would believe and rely on Me,
you would see the glory of God?
(JOHN 11:39,40)

THE STORY OF the raising of Lazarus from the dead is a beauty. Martha truly believed Lazarus would not have died if Jesus had been there sooner. She believed in Jesus as the Christ, her Messiah (John 11:21-27). But Jesus was abouth to take her faith to a new level--a level that defied any hint of natural possibilities. Faith must move beyond the theoretical to where it touches your deepest need at a level that requires the supernatural.

If Jesus could have spared Lazarus before his death, why not believe He would raise him from the dead after four days? Why not move beyond "could" do it to "will" do it? Take His promise and rest in it. You will see the glory of God!

breytonhartge SG

God wants you to know that if you will do what you can do HE WILL DO what you can't do.

The Lord God is my Strength
my personal bravery, and my invincible army;
He makes my feet like hinds' feet
and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror,
but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress
upon my high places
[of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!
(HABAKKUK 3:19)

WHEN JESUS TOOK the boy's five barley loaves and two small fish and fed the five thousand (John 6), He demonstrated the transformation He works in your life when you are in touch with Him. Apart from Christ the bread was merely bread, but in His hands bread was linked to the divine. No matter how insignificant or weak or lacking in talent you feel, bring all that you are--body, soul, and spirit--and be joined to Christ. Never focus on your deficiencies. Only make sure you have given yourself fully to Christ. Allow Him to fill your mind with His Word and your heart with the love of Christ. Your abilities, great or small, when joined to Christ by faith, are sufficient for whatever He calls you to do.

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