If it is impossible to please God without faith, then putting our faith in action must really please our Lord.
What are you having doubts and fears about? Try trusting God in a brand new fresh way! Walk out on that glassy sea and find Jesus there to hold you.
I am personally trusting God in a new way. I am a bit nervous, but I have seen the Lord come through for me so many times in the past, I'm convinced that is pleased already.
I dare you...try trusting God in a new way.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
When was the last time you felt overwhelming joy?
Has it been awhile? Has life and it's complications weighed you down to a point that your heart is heavy? Is your heart heavy right now as you read this? Financial problems? Relationship problems? Physical challenges? Spiritual problems? All of these and more can imprison our hearts.
It truly is God's will that our joy "might be full". The Lord knows that there will be plenty of things in life to weigh us down. We wouldn't know what joy felt like if there were never any problems. We can be in the middle of great difficulty and yet feel joy. HOW? BY KNOWING THAT GOD IS GOING TO BRING US OUT. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (read all of Ps.30)
Joy is God's will for us.
When we get trapped or tricked into doing something that is robs our joy, we look back and see our error, we CHANGE the only thing we can change; that is ourselves. We humble ourselves and make things right.
The joy will return when we go back and do it right the next time.
Maybe we were seduced into working at a job that was not God's will. Maybe we are in a relationship with someone who pulls us away from the Lord. Maybe we are using our human ingenuity and manipulation to do the work that only God can do.
Let's go back, repent and do it right this time. God will direct our lives by his still small voice. He will give us the right kind of friends that love us for who we really are. He will do a mighty work through us if we let him take control.
The joy is coming back to you...do you feel it already? Never let yourself be influenced and or deceived like that again.
It truly is God's will that our joy "might be full". The Lord knows that there will be plenty of things in life to weigh us down. We wouldn't know what joy felt like if there were never any problems. We can be in the middle of great difficulty and yet feel joy. HOW? BY KNOWING THAT GOD IS GOING TO BRING US OUT. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (read all of Ps.30)
Joy is God's will for us.
When we get trapped or tricked into doing something that is robs our joy, we look back and see our error, we CHANGE the only thing we can change; that is ourselves. We humble ourselves and make things right.
The joy will return when we go back and do it right the next time.
Maybe we were seduced into working at a job that was not God's will. Maybe we are in a relationship with someone who pulls us away from the Lord. Maybe we are using our human ingenuity and manipulation to do the work that only God can do.
Let's go back, repent and do it right this time. God will direct our lives by his still small voice. He will give us the right kind of friends that love us for who we really are. He will do a mighty work through us if we let him take control.
The joy is coming back to you...do you feel it already? Never let yourself be influenced and or deceived like that again.
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