The Christian Life is

October 29, 2011

8:56 pm

The Christian life is an exchange life. Jesus life for your life, when Christ takes control, your life takes on dimensions you would never have known apart from Him.

·         When we are weak, then Christ demonstrates His strength in your life

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

English Standard Version (ESV)⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ¹⁰  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

·         When you face situations that are beyond your comprehension, you have only to ask, and the infinite wisdom of God is available to you.

James 1:5-6

English Standard Version (ESV)⁵  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

·         When you are faced with humanly impossible situations, God does the impossible.

Luke 18:27

English Standard Version (ESV)²⁷ But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

·         When you encounter people whom you find difficult to love, God expresses His unconditional love through you.

1 John 4:7

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God Is Love⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

·         When you are at “loss” to what you should pray for someone, the Spirit will guide you in you in your prayer life.

Romans 8:16

English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁶  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

·         When Christ takes up residence in the life of a believer,

Ephesians 3:19English Standard Version (ESV)¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

is available to that person

It is marvelously freeing to know that God controls our life and knows what it can become. Rather than constantly worrying about what you will face, your great challenge is to continually  release every area of your life to God’s control. The temptation will be to try to do by yourself what only God can do.

Our assignment is to “abide in the vine” and to allow God to do in and through us what only He can do.

John 15:5 English Standard Version (ESV)⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Only God can be God.  Allow Him to live out His divine life through you. He is the only ONE WHO CAN.

-       HENRY AND RICHARD BLACKABY (Reality, 7 Truths from Experiencing God)

God, only You can be the God of my entire life. I am holding on, trusting, because You hold my future, my tomorrows, the days to come. I am surrendering to Your perfect will, let it be done on me, my life. my life is in You Lord.. I SURRENDER ALL TO THEE..

With all my heart, have THY WAY.

All to Thee my perfect Saviour

I surrender all..

Waiting Means

October 27, 2011

9:16pm

“God’s ways are not to take us out of the difficulties and trials, not to avoid them. His way is to enable us and to strengthen us, so that we can go through them with heads erect and undefeated, more than conquerors in them and over them and that is a wonderful thing.”

-       MARTIN LLOYD-JONES

“His purpose for us is nothing but joy in the end, for He is love. It is worth nothing that the bible does not say God is justice, or God is power. It says HE IS LOVE. How is it possible that He would purpose anything less than our highest joy?”

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

“The Lord has promised wisdom to all who ask it. He has promised guidance to those who are willing to accept the way He chooses. He has promised to fulfill the desires of all who fear Him.”

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

-       ELISABETH ELLIOT

Hebrews 10:36

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³⁶ For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

We may ask for anything and hope for anything our heart desires. But we do so always with an understanding that our Father knows what’s best for us, and sees beyond what we see. When we hope it is always with the “fine print” in which we acknowledge that we at times don’t know what to ask for, don’t know is what we hope for is right and good. So, we leave the decision to Him, knowing He will do whatever is truly best for us.

Romans 8:28

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²⁸ And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,^[a] for those who are called according to his purpose.

All things- it doesn’t matter what. We must TRUST Him absolutely and explicitly even when we cannot understand.

Philippians 4:11

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¹¹ Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Waiting means-            Steadfastness that is holding on;            Patience, that is holding back;            Expectancy, that is holding the face up;            Obedience, that is holding one’s self in readiness to go or do,            Listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

-       S.D. GORDON

Psalm 33:11

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¹¹ But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
   the purposes of his heart through all generations.
   the purposes of his heart through all generations.  

Proverbs 16:1-3

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Proverbs 16

 ¹ To humans belong the plans of the heart,
   but from the LORD comes the proper answer of the tongue.
 ² All a person’s ways seem pure to them,
   but motives are weighed by the LORD.
 ³ Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
   and he will establish your plans.

Proverbs 16:9

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 ⁹ In their hearts humans plan their course,
   but the LORD establishes their steps.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

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¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

The happiest person doesn’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best out of everything.

Philippians 4:11-13

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. ¹² I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. ¹³ I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Our deed determines us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We often think that who we are determines what we do. It is equally true that what you do today determines, in part, who you become tomorrow.