What Will God Do For You Part 3

 

Exodus chapter 2 23-25

 After many years, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites shouted with pain because they were slaves. They called to God to help them.  And God heard their cry. He remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob many years before.  So when the Israelites had all this terrible trouble, God saw them. And he cared about them.

Does God hear our cries of suffering and pain? Yes, and He will always help His little ones when they come to His throne room in prayer. 

The Hebrews were suffering as slaves in Egypt. The Lord answered their prayers and gave them a unique solution to their problem. He sent Moses to speak to the Pharaoh on their behalf so that eventually they were freed from their suffering. It seemed an impossible task, yet the Lord was willing to show Pharoah and the rest of the world how He could set His people free by any means necessary!

God will do what is necessary to answer your prayer, but you must be willing to allow Him to do whatever is necessary for you to get your victory. You may want Him to slay your enemies, but instead, He blesses them. You may want a different job, but instead God gives you the strength to stay at your current position until He is ready to promote you to a better job or a new ministry. 

You may need healing, but the healing may not come right away. Will you have the faith to keep praying and worshiping in His presence until you are completely healed?  God is always ready to help you, and His ways of doing things are always better than anything we can imagine or think.

Trust the Lord, because He has a plan for your life. Even when things seem desperate and downright impossible, the Lord already has the solution to your problem. You may not see the victory yet, but you can praise Him right now, because He cares about you and He will be with you until you have what you need.

He has proven His love for us in the past, we can expect more love from Him today, and we should be eager to see what He will do for us in the future…

What Will God Do For You Part 2

 Exodus chapter 2 11-15

 One day, when Moses was older, he went out alone. He wanted to see his own people as they worked. And he saw that they had to work very hard. Also he saw an *Egyptian who was hitting a *Hebrew man many times. And he knew that the man was one of his own people.  Then Moses looked round quickly and he did not see anyone. So he killed the *Egyptian. And he hid the dead body in the sand.

 The next day he went out again. And he saw two *Hebrew men who were fighting. Moses spoke to the man who had started the fight. ‘Why are you hitting another *Hebrew?’ Moses asked him.

 ‘I do not think that anybody has made you a ruler and a judge over us. Perhaps you want to kill me, as you killed the *Egyptian’, the man replied.

Then Moses was afraid. ‘People have probably heard about what I did’, he thought.

 And then *Pharaoh heard what had happened. So he tried to kill Moses. But Moses managed to escape. Moses ran away to the country called Midian. There he sat down by a well.

What happens when you try to execute God’s plan for your life with your own strength? The results will not be the same as if you trusted the Lord and waited patiently for His Word and His will to be manifested in your life.

Moses was a prince of Egypt, and he had all the power and the comforts that come with that position in the Egyptian empire, and yet with all that he had, he still had a heart of compassion for his people. He wanted to see how his people were being treated and then  he made a rash decision to help a fellow hebrew by slaying his Egyptian overlord. 

He may have saved that Hebrew man that was being abused, but that decision caused him to flee Egypt to escape the wrath of the pharoah. Our best intentions will never be as good as what the Lord can do for us.

What happens when you decide to do something that is outside of  the will of God? There will be consequences, but the Lord will help you to deal with them because He loves you and he will never leave you or forsake you. Experience is always the best teacher, and the Lord will allow you to deal with your mistakes so that you can learn from them.

It would seem from these scriptures that Moses made a huge mistake and that he missed his chance to help his people, but the Lord led him to a place where he could grow and mature away from the Pharaoh's palace. He became a humble and lowly shepherd tending sheep upon a mountain until one day, he saw a burning bush whose fire did not burn the bush at all and he heard the voice of the Lord commanding him to go and free his people from their Egyptian overlords. 

When the Lord is ready to use you, you will have the skills and the resources to do His will. No one will be able to stop what God will bring out in your life, you just need to be willing to take the first step and to follow in His footsteps…

What Will God Do For You Part 1

 Exodus chapter 2 1-10

During this time, a man from the family called Levi married a woman. She was from the same family. Later, she was expecting a child. And she gave birth to a son. She saw that her baby was a beautiful child. So she hid him for three months.  After that, she could not continue to hide him. So she obtained some plants that grow in water. And she used them to make a basket for her son. She covered the basket with a thick black substance so that water did not get into the basket. Then she placed the child in it. And she put the basket among the plants that grew along the edge of the River Nile.  The baby’s sister waited at a distance and she watched. She wanted to see what would happen to the baby.

 Then *Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the River Nile to wash herself. The servants walked along the river’s edge with her. And the princess saw the basket among the plants. So she sent her female slave to get it.  She opened the basket and she saw the baby. She felt sorry for him because he was crying. ‘I am sure that this is a *Hebrew baby’, she said. Then the baby’s sister spoke to *Pharaoh’s daughter. ‘Shall I go and get one of the *Hebrew women?’ she asked. ‘She could look after the baby for you.’

‘Yes, go’, *Pharaoh’s daughter answered. So the girl went home and she brought the baby’s mother to the princess.  ‘Take this baby and feed him for me. I will pay you’, the princess told her

So the woman took the baby and she looked after him.  And when the child was old enough, she took him back to *Pharaoh’s daughter. And he became the princess’s son. She named him ‘Moses’. ‘I pulled him out of the water’, she said.

What should you do when the Lord asks you to do something that doesn't seem right to your own understanding? Simply, obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit, for our understanding about life and the universe is very limited, but the Lord Jesus has all the power and all  the authority in every place that can be seen and unseen. We are His children and His followers, so where He would lead us is where we need to be.

We don’t know what will happen when we step out of our houses to complete the day’s work. We must have faith in Jesus to keep us steady and whole. Fears and doubts can cloud our judgment, and many people are never certain that they will accomplish everything that they set out to do, but if we put our faith in Jesus Christ, we can be sure that whatever plans He has for our lives  will be accomplished because He will give us the ability to do everything, including what seems to be impossible.

Moses’s mother put her faith in God to save her son from the Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew boys be killed by tossing them into the Nile River. She made a basket and coated it with pitch to make it waterproof, and then she put her baby into the basket and left it in the river. She had no idea how God would save her child, but God did so by the power of compassion from an Egyptian princess, the daughter of the man who had pronounced that same death sentence on her baby boy.

God will tell the mountains to move if it means that one of His children would be saved from death or some catastrophe. He will do whatever is necessary to complete His will in your life and in mine.

And so, what happened to her baby boy when she left all the consequences to the Lord? He was adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter and  was raised as a prince in Egypt. This was God’s plan, and certainly Moses’s mother could never have believed what God was going to do in his life. She did  not have the ability to save her son, but the Lord knew exactly what to do. In saving her son,  the Lord was ensuring the survival of her own people. 

God may put you in a position that doesn't seem right or fair, but it is up to you to decide to trust Him with your life. You may have many dreams that you want to pursue, but the Lord just might have a plan that would blow all of your dreams away!  You have to be willing to follow Him and to see where His path will lead you…

The Law of God Vs The Law of Man Part 2

 Exodus chapter 1 18-19

Then the king sent for them again. ‘Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?’ he asked them. ‘*Hebrew women are not like *Egyptian women’, they answered *Pharaoh. ‘*Hebrew women are strong. And their babies are born quickly, before we can arrive.’

Humanity believes that it has the right to abort human babies because there are laws to support some women’s desire to end the life of their babies. In God’s eyes, all life has value. He created the world and every living thing that lives upon it. He believes in love because He is love, and love is a creative force of nature. We were never made to destroy life, but to create it.

The secular worldview is selfish and dim, and that is why some people cannot see beyond the needs of the woman to have compassion upon the life of an unwanted child. If those lost children could speak to their mothers, they would speak words of love and compassion, they would forgive their mothers, because in heaven, there are no selfish, confused or unforgiving souls. The Lord will not allow the world to waste any of His loved ones, for every baby and every child of God is very precious to Him and they are always in His heart…

The law of man allows the termination of a life, but God says that every life that is wasted on earth will never be wasted in heaven. All of our tears, our joys, our pains and sorrows, everything that we experience will never be wasted as long as we allow Jesus Christ into our lives. When we accept Jesus Chrsit as our Lord and Savior, He becomes the guide to everlasting life and forgiveness. We become ambassadors for the Kingdom of God, and He forgives us for all of our sins. No greater gift is there for a fallen and broken human being than  to be accepted and loved by the One who created them, with the love, power and majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ!

God's word says that we need to live, to laugh, and to love while showing the world who we are in Jesus Christ. We must advocate for the little ones who cannot advocate for themselves. Love is the only real power in the universe. Hate can only destroy, but God’s love can transform a dead heart and a selfish soul, and never underestimate the power of God’s love in your life.

Live For God - Give All that You Have To God - Cherish Your Life And the Lives Of Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves - Give God All Of The Glory When He Defeats All Of Your Enemies- Hallelujah!

The Law of God Vs The Law of Man Part 1

 Exodus chapter 1 15-17, 20-21

There were *Hebrew women who helped other women to have their babies. These women’s names were Shiphrah and Puah. Then the king spoke to them. ‘You help other *Hebrew women when they have their babies’, he said to them. ‘You must watch them carefully when they have babies. If the baby is a boy, kill him. If the baby is a girl, let her live.’  But Shiphrah and Puah were afraid to make God angry. So they did not do what Egypt’s king had told them. They let the boys live.

 So God did good things for Shiphrah and Puah. The number of *Israelites increased more and more.  Shiphrah and Puah were afraid to make God angry. And because of that, he gave to them families of their own too.

Just because man’s law says that you can do a certain thing does not mean it is beneficial or righteous in the eyes of God.  In the book of exodus, we see that the Israelites were slaves to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians wanted to control the number of their slaves by killing the baby boys being born to the Hebrew women. 

Pharoah decreed death and destruction in the lives of his Hebrew slaves, but the ones responsible for helping the Hebrew women when they were in labor refused to do this because they were more afraid of God. In other words, they believed in God’s word and refused to destroy the lives of the baby boys, even though they knew this would put them in danger of the one who had all the power over their lives;  in reality it was God who had the power over all of their lives.

God allows man to make his rules and regulations, but He requires His people to look to Him for guidance in their everyday lives. God protected the midwives and even gave them families because they considered God’s words as the final authority in their lives.

We need to believe the word of God and then live it out in our own lives. We may have to take a stand that everyone else in the room refuses to do. We must consider the cost of not obeying the Lord when we are prompted by the Holy Spirit to do God’s will.

Could you lose your job, your good reputation, your street cred with the crowd?  Yes, it is possible, but the Lord will not leave you to face this battle alone, He will give you the strength and the resources to succeed, and He will never leave you without His support.

You will be rewarded for your efforts, and other people will be able to see how the Lord is working in your life. God gets the glory and you will get the victory. Do you want to see what God can do for you in your life? Just stand up for Him and watch the Lord fight your battles. The darkness will never be able to conquer anyone who believes in our Savior, Jesus Christ…

Forgiveness Is The Medication For Your Soul

 

Matthew 6:14

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you.

What do you do to cure yourself when you are physically ill?

When you are sick, you will be told by your doctor to take your medication so that you can feel better.  What if you don’t feel better?  You need to keep taking your medication until you do feel better...

Forgiveness cleanses the palate of your soul, helps to heal the deepest emotions, and it activates the Holy Spirit to redeem you from your misery if you allow Him to heal you…

Forgiveness is not about the person who hurt you, it is about redeeming yourself from your pain, suffering, fear, confusion and denial.

The greatest weapon of the devil is to put you into a situation of your own choosing. When you refuse to forgive and forget, you put yourself in a position to be tortured by your past and to live in bitterness and regret forever.

Some people enjoy their bitterness, it allows them to have a constant gripe about the world and the people who live in it. They will feel vindicated when the object of their bitterness receives their due punishment, but they will never feel completely whole for the rest of their lives. That snake of bitterness bit them a long time ago, but the bitter poison is still working in their hearts everyday.

Do you want to be free from this self-inflicted prison? Give all of your cares, your pains and sorrows to the Lord. Confess to Him your intention to forgive everyone who has ever offended you, and then the Holy Spirit receives what you have said and begins to heal your heart. It may not seem like anything is happening at first, because it all depends on how strong your desire is to be free from your suffering, but it will work because Jesus is the only way that Father God has provided for our salvation and for our sins.

Jesus sacrificed Himself upon the cross because He loves you, He loves everyone with a passion that goes beyond our human understanding. He suffered for every sickness, every hurt and every injustice we experience in this life, and that is why we need to surrender our pains and offenses to Jesus.  His Blood covers everything that you will ever feel, see or experience; let go of that thing that is haunting your heart and give it all to Him!

What happens if you never let go of your bitterness and hate of the one(s) who have offended you? It is a sin that keeps you from the Kingdom of God. Sin is not allowed in heaven, and bitterness and unforgiveness keeps you from believing in the one who came to save you from all of your troubles. Jesus will never inhabit a heart filled with the poison of hate and unforgiveness. 

Just imagine how you would feel if you constantly lived in the presence of someone who was always angry, bitter and vengeful to everyone around them, even to the ones who showed them love and compassion. Would you want to live with someone like that forever and ever?  God does not tolerate these toxic emotions and feelings in His presence. A person with an empty heart will always be empty unless they change their mind and ask for forgiveness…

Sadly, there are people who are suffering in that kind of environment, and the only way to be free of that kind of environment is to leave it or the angry, bitter person must leave because that person cannot change themselves and they cannot be healed of that destructive condition if they are not willing to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ.

A person who lives with unforgiveness in their hearts every day must always contend with fear, confusion and denial. They will always be afraid of everything and everyone because they will be constantly protecting themselves from more hurt and pain. They will never allow anyone to get too close to them emotionally, because emotions for them will always be an enemy. 

Confusion will always be present in their thinking because they will never accept the truth of God but will always prefer a way of thinking that will justify their bitterness and this will increase their pain and suffering. They will always be in denial because they will be unable to accept the truth about the state of their heart and mind.  Some people may try to help them understand why they do what they do, but they will not be interested in changing their behavior, even if it means that they could live a better life.

What if you decide that you want freedom from your pain by accepting Jesus Christ into your heart? Confession of your sins to a higher power is the best way to free yourself from the burdens of a broken heart.  You must have a revelation of the power and the glory of the Lord that only comes when you ask Jesus to come into your heart and to heal you from all of your pains and sufferings. Jesus lives inside our hearts because that is the place He has always prepared for Himself. The world tries to fill that space with money, hate and selfish distractions, but all of these things will never be able to fill the spot in your heart reserved only for Him.

Live for Jesus, submit your heart to Him right now, show the world what it has been missing all along, and your joy, peace and happiness will amaze the people in your life, and give hope to the desperate ones searching for the real answer to all of their troubles…

Salvation Prayer

Lord Jesus, please forgive me for all of my sins,  I am sorry for all of my past deeds, I give you all of my pain and suffering and I forgive everyone who has ever offended me or caused me any injury to my body, heart and mind. Please Jesus, come live inside of me so that I can live for you forever and ever,  AMEN

Jesus is the reason for the season

 Luke chapter 2  1:14

 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.  (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)  And everyone went to their own town to register.

 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.  He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.  While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.  This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 

“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

It will not matter to you why Christmas Day is celebrated if you do not believe the origin of the story and its impact on the world….

This morning I was watching a rerun of a comedy sitcom done in the 80’s - this show actually celebrated Christmas with a positive attitude, a story that ended with a miracle, and the whole cast sang real Christmas songs, not about santa and rudolph the red nosed reindeer, but beautiful old Christmas carols about the baby Jesus and God’s goodwill to men everywhere; that is when I realized the truth about celebrating Christmas for christians.

For many people it is a time to be with family and friends, to have parties, and to give gifts to the ones that you care about and love. This is not a bad thing, in fact it is the most positive time of the year if done right, but too many people try to ignore that Jesus is the reason for the season. If you are not celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, then the holiday is nothing more than a reason to stimulate the economy.

What does God think about celebrating Christmas? While I was watching this episode, and as they began to sing the Christmas carols, I felt the Lord enter my room. I could feel the Holy Spirit in my heart, and I began to sing as well, and that is when I knew that God approves of the celebration of His Son Jesus as the baby in the manger born into this world to save us all from our sins. 

There are so many arguments in the world about the scriptures and cultural traditions. One denomination believes that  a certain date has to be celebrated, others have an issue about celebrating our Lord’s birth at all, and still others believe that it is all pagan rituals, but now I wonder, Has Anyone Ever Asked God If He Approves Of The Christmas Season?

I don't know, maybe someone was wise enough to seek His counsel in the last 2000 years. The truth is that anyone who has ever loved God and believed in His Son Jesus has already received His approval - when they sing psalms and carols to celebrate his birth, when they go to church services and celebrations, when they give of themselves to other people using their resources to bless those who are in need in Jesus Name. You will feel His approval if you choose to focus upon the reason for the season, Our Lord Jesus Christ.