Jesus answered, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me. Luke 22:33-24 Do you ever feel like God is moving slowly in your life? Why do you think God moves slow in a person’s life as He matures us? Jesus was with His disciples for three years. He told them that He had much more to say to them. It was more than they could bear. He told them that when the Holy Spirit comes, the Holy Spirit will guide them to all truth. He won’t speak on his own but only what he hears. He will tell us what…
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Come To Know God
I AM WHO I AM. Exodus 3:14 God reveals himself through what He does. When God works through us, we get to know Him through that experience. We also come to know God when he meets our needs. How has God revealed who he is to you? What are some names you have learned about who God is? Here are some scriptures that describe who God is: Ps. 68: 5 reveals God is defender of widows, Revelations 19:11 reveals God is faithful and true. Deut. 4:24 shows God is a consuming fire. Job 16:20 says God is our friend. In 2 Corinthians 1:3, God is of all comfort. Psalm…
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Through Obedience, God Works Through You
Let him who boasts boast in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:31 God will accomplish through us what He has purposed us to do when we obey God. When we do not obey God, we will miss out on the most exciting experience of our life. We have to allow God to work through us, so He can accomplish His purpose. Have you allowed God to use you through your obedience? Have you been blessed by God? We will be blessed when God does a special, God – sized work through you. Let’s look at Moses. Moses obeyed God and God accomplished what His purpose. Read Exodus 7:1-6. Moses experienced…
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Obedience – Part 2
If you love me, you will obey what I command. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. John 14:15, 24 Are you a servant of God? If you are the you do what God directs. We obey Him. As servants to God we do not have an option to decide whether or not we will obey. When we decide to not obey, we are in rebellion. Choosing disobedience has serious consequences. What is obedience? Obedience means joy and uninterrupted fellowship with God. People today are self-centered and want to do their own thing. They don’t stop to consider what obedience means in their lives. There…
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Obedience- Part 1
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, one will obey my teaching. My Father will love hi, and we will come to him and make our home with him. John 14:23 God is at work in our world. He is at work with where you are at. God takes the initiative to invite us to join him with His work. We make the adjustments in our lives to join His work and then We get to the place of obedience. How do you feel about obedience? Is it hard for you to be obedient to God? We have to obey Him first. He then will work through us. When God does…
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Reflection Day
R Today is Reflection Day! I really love reflection day. It’s a time for me to go back and reflect on what God has spoken to me about. It gives me time to pray and seek God about what he wants to speak to change in my life. It gives me time to make a game plan of putting action to what God is telling me and asking of me. So!! Get your journals, pens, and bible and spend time with God. Listen to him and obey him. When you get uncomfortable with the quiet, just stay there and give God time to do what he wants. Take time today…
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Digging Deeper
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 Let’s dig a little deeper in to the adjustments of God. Noah could not continue life as usual and build an ark at the same time (Gen. 6), Abram could not stay in Ur or Haran and be the father a nation in Canaan (Gen. 12:1-8), Moses could not stay on the back side of the desert herding sheep and stand before Pharaoh at the same time (Ex. 3), David had to leave his sheep to become king (1 Samuel 16:1-13), and Amos had to leave…
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Total Dependence On God
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5 An another adjustment that is part of knowing and doing the will fo God is having total dependence on God. When we do this He will complete what He wants to do through us. We are God’s servants, we must remain in an intimate relationship with God in order for His work to be completed. We must depend on God alone. Adjustment in obedience also requires us from moving from the work for God according to our abilities, our gifts, our…
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Obedience Is Costly: Part 2
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more, John 6:6-7 Have you obeyed God and that obedience was costly to those around you? Let’s take a look at Exodus 5:1-21. When Moses obeyed God and told Pharaoh to let Israel go, how did it cost the Israelites? What did it cost them? When Moses obeyed God, the work load of the children of Israel was increased and the Israelites foremen were beaten. The Israelites paid a high cost for Moses to do the will of God. We have to trust that will care for those around us. He will communicate with His people. …
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Obedience Is Costly- part 1
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more, John 6:6-7 Do you find that being obedient to God is hard? We cannot stay where we are at and go with God at the same time. We cannot continue to do things our way and accomplish God’s will. Say these three statements out loud if possible. 1) I cannot stay where I am and go with God at the same time. 2) Obedience is costly to me and to those around me. 3) Obedience requires total dependence on God to work through me. Let’s look at statement 2. We can not know or do…