by theThinker | Sep 5, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts, Worship and praise
Faith is always in action, never passively waiting. We don’t just believe God for one thing and then doubt Him for other things. We don’t just believe and sit back and wait to see what God will do next. We will have to keep seeking and and knocking, searching and listening for His voice. His voice is heard by those who spend quality time in communion with Him. Its like knowing a spouse, the more quality time we spend with them is the more we understand them. Having faith in God is necessary for us to please Him. Without faith we cannot please God. Having faith requires us to dedicate time to be with the Lord. He desires the best that we have to give, not the leftovers. God desires quality time, not just quantity time. We know that we can spend a lot of time with friends and feel like we wasted our time. God wants to spend time with us as He did with our Savior and with Adam. When we learn to hear His voice and know it, we won,t mistake it for the enemy. Sometimes the enemy’s voice sounds so authentic but it goes against what the Word of God says. God’s children knows His voice really well. Faith come when we are in tune with the Lord and we only seek what is in line with His Word. When we learn to pray in line with the Word of God, He hears us and He answers our requests. It still requires us to wait on Him because His timing is always accurate. He sees...
by theThinker | Aug 30, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
The scripture says to “trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding and to acknowledge Him and He will direct our path.” He never lies nor can He lie, He is totally accountable for all His words. Nothing present or in the future can change His word. The universe hinges on His word. We can trust God’s word. We can see God’s word come alive in Jesus Christ. Our Lord is capable of taking care of us in all situations. Sometimes it may seem that He is missing in action but He is right there by our sides. He allows us the freedom to depend on Him or to try to live independent of Him. He loves us so much that he will give us our freedom to make our own choices even when we are stubborn and disobedient. Sometimes we take control after giving Him control, thinking that we can do better or faster than how God is doing things but He gives us our freedom to choose. He sometimes steps in and stops us because He loves us and He knows our choices would cause serious harm. God is reliable and we can trust Him totally. We don’t need to micromanage God, He can do what we don’t know how to do. He sees the whole picture. Trusting God is necessary to build our faith in Him. We have to believe that He will “keep that which we have committed unto Him.” We also have to believe deep in our hearts that He truly wants the best for our lives....
by theThinker | Aug 22, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
When we stand with the Lord, there are no mistakes. Everything that we go through has a purpose in our Christian walk. Paul the apostle says that we should count it all joy when we face these challenges. God walks with us every day, even when life makes it seem like we are walking alone. He never leaves us or forsakes us and He never makes bad decisions in our lives. He says in His Word that He challenges us because He loves us. He also says that He will never allow us to face challenges that are more than we can bare. Sometimes we face some challenges that causes us to wonder where God is but keep it in the forefront of your mind that He faces every one of those challenges with us. We don’t know what our limits are and that is why we sometimes get angry at God. He knows us more than we can ever know ourselves. He made us and He wants us to expand to use the potential that He has built into us. Potential is unused energy both in science and in us Christians. We must learn to trust our God. We need to know from the depths of our beings that He only wants the best for us. He does not lie nor can He tell a lie, so trust Him. We have to remember that He payed the ultimate price for us even when we were sinners without any hope. If He can do that for rebels and vagabond, which we were, what will He do for us who...
by theThinker | Aug 17, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts, testimony, Worship and praise
God is awesome and wonderful. He does so many things in our lives on a daily basis that we could never count them all. We as fallen humans look for what we didn’t get or what prayer He didn’t answer. It is amazing that we don’t thank Him for the prayers that He did answer. He never stops working on our behalf, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. He takes care of things that we don’t even know to ask Him for. He protects us from dangers that we cannot see. He keeps our minds from being overwhelmed by the enemy. There are so many things that God does that we could never number them because we would have to be Him to know all that He does. Every day when we are blessed to receive a fresh new day to live and breathe, we are to get on our knees before doing anything else for the day and give God thanks for allowing us this awesome blessing. Without life, nothing else would matter for the rest of the day. Getting your coffee, your breakfast, your shower, your clothing, getting to work, all that would never be possible without the first breath of the day. We are to give thanks as the first effort that we put forth for the day. God is worthy. Most of us start thinking about what we are going to wear and all the other things that we need to get and on and on. We are to thank God for the clothing that we have in our closets, the shoes that...
by theThinker | Jul 30, 2012 | Creativity, faith, spiritual thoughts, Worship and praise
God’s way is the right way! We think that our self confidence and self image is most important but it is confidence in Christ that matters and having the image of Christ as our image that is of utmost importance. Sometimes God takes us through the detours of life just to have us yield to His way. Many of us have many talents and if He allowed us to depend on our talents, we would never have a need for Him in our lives. Without God directing us we will go astray like the characters in story of the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament. God knows us better than we know our selves and He wants us to yield our carnal nature to Him so that our flesh will be under the Spirit control. The enemy of our soul, the devil, knows how to manipulate the unyielding flesh to do his wicked deeds. Sometimes we only see the short term effects of the actions that we take and to us it looks great but God knows the long term plan of the enemy. God knows how devastating its effect will work out in our lives. He knows that the enemy does not play games, he plays for keeps. We are in need of God’s direction and the only way that we can have Him lead us is when we yield to Him. He is not a dictator that He will force us to yield to Him, we always have a choice and with that choice we have to take responsibility for our decisions. God, has the best...
by theThinker | Jun 15, 2012 | faith, spiritual thoughts
Life with Christ at the controls requires that we LOVE. It is not optional and it requires a sacrifice of ego and self. Some people are difficult to love and some people requires an abundance of love. When we trust God for our direction, He will direct our path. He will give us the necessary strength to love. Most times we fight for our rights but love requires sacrificing our rights for the sake of love. God is LOVE and He loves unconditionally all the time. We haven’t come close to sacrificing our rights as Christ did. He was accused wrongly of a lot of things and even today He is still accused but you and I have never seen Him stand up for His rights. He is buried in God and so we must be buried with Christ in God. When we have submitted our rights to Him, He then gives us the strength to live a life of love...
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