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Micah 4:12 But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, Nor do they understand His counsel; For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
God does not think in the same way as we do. He is not limited to the way we think. And His thoughts are certainly not trapped by the same sin as ours are!
When God asks us to do something or say He will do something. We are not to limit His ways to our own thoughts because nothing is impossible through Him.
When God is ready, He will bring in the harvest and not us; we should just continue to try and tell others about Him.
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Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God does not look at us as evil little things but with love and care so He can help us to have a brighter future with Him.
God wants peace in our lives; He knows we will be distraught and consumed if we always have grief and despair.
Continue to love the Lord your God like He loves you. Continue to look at Him as the Lord and Saviour He is to you.
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Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
No single verse seems to give us the full meaning of how much God is with us in our everyday lives.
But as we gather together each verse and try to sum them all up in our minds, we being to find out how much we mean to Christ and how much He wants to be with us!
God is doing this all because He loves us. He is doing this all because He wants to!
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Deuteronomy 20:4 for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
Leave your fears behind you, don’t be fainthearted and tremble but go forward with Christ by your side!
God has tried to tell us how He is with us every step of the way; He has shown us physically through the example of Him being with the Hebrews as they went through the desert.
He has kept us safe and continues to keep us safe – yet we fail to believe fully and trust in His name.
Take a bold step forward and stay with Christ!
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Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Trusting in Christ must go beyond just wanting Him to explain His Word to us; it should be a dependence on Him in our lives.
Trusting on a chair means sitting on it believing it will hold you until you get up again – time and time again.
Trusting in Christ should mean believing He is willing and able to give you strength and understanding time and time again – every time we ask it of Him!
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Matthew 16:17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
Jesus declared Simon to be blessed, not because he had done anything special or had the scriptures explained to him by a Rabbi; but because he listened to God for the explanation!
When you meditate on God’s Word, always be ready for Him to explain it to you as well.
It is not what we can discern, or what others can teach us but how God is able to teach us that will truly bless us. Don’t just believe in Him but trust in Him for inspiration and revelation!
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2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
Don’t get upset when you think you do not understand the Bible or what others say about the Bible; throughout the scriptures there are many times when people just needed that extra bit of help in understanding what God wants to say to them.
We have friends, teachers and leaders who are willing and able to help us. Don’t be shy in asking for help or admitting you do not understand.
And that also means do not hold back from asking the Holy Spirit for understanding and discernment; He has promised to give us and we ought to wait on Him too.
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Acts 9:18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.
Saul still did not see the whole purpose of the Gospel after his experience on the road to Damascus. It was only after Ananias prayed for him that his eyes were truly opened.
God is able to tell us everything we ought to know, but He wants us to hear it from people around us too.
God wants our trust, but He also wants our fellowship; that fellowship begins with being around people who know Him too.
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Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’
This is what God told Paul on the road to Damascus. God gave Paul the command to open other people’s eyes and ears!
In the same manner Jesus has asked us to go out and spread the Gospel, the Good News. By doing so we are enabling others to see and hear the truth.
God wants to make sure we are all given the opportunity to hear His word and He wants our help to do this – people would rather believe their friends or people they know.
Start showing your friends how much you care about them!
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Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord has made them both.
Artists and artisans can depict and construct eyes and ears which look good enough to see and hear, but they cannot.
Scientists can construct robotic eyes and ears which they say can see and hear, but they are still nowhere near as good as the human counterparts in many aspects.
God gave us eyes to see and ears to hear. He made us in this very special way to have extraordinary senses which we can call on at any time.
He gave us these senses so we can expand our wisdom and get to know Him more each day. How do you use your senses?
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Deuteronomy 29:3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.
What do you do with the things other people tell you about God and the miracles He does? Do you ignore them because they did not happen to you? Do you ignore them because you think He does not do miracles anymore?
The people of Israel continued to show coldness of heart and they withdrew from God because of thoughts like these.
God continues to do miracles and wonders in our modern lives; man continues to be more afraid to accept God as the Lord Almighty who can and does do everything!
Trust God and all He can do – have faith He is still continuing with His promises!
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Isaiah 43:8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf who have ears.
Are you deaf and blind? I’m not talking about being physically deaf and blind but spiritually deaf and blind?
Too many things in our lives detract us from God and His ways; we run off and do our own things which makes us look like we are deaf and blind.
The world may not see us as deaf or blind because this is the world we live in, but God and other Christians will see it in us.
Open you heart and soul to Christ and live with Him.
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Isaiah 48:6 You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
Do you want to hear from God? Do you want Him to guide you every step of the way? Do you want Him to comfort you?
I’m sure you answered yes to at least one of the above – yet so many of us refuse to listen to God when He does speak, guide and comfort.
We are too stiff-necked, too proud, too suborn. We think we can do it all and we continue to fall flat on our faces.
God has given us the complete Gospel – we need to believe it, trust it, digest it and continue to uphold it for it to be effective!
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Matthew 24:25 See, I have told you beforehand.
How many times do you have to be told something before you start believing it? Chances are you will give a different answer for each person who asks.
Jesus had to tell the people a varying amount of times before they would start listening; the more they got to know Him the less they should have had to tell people.
Unfortunately, life does not always work like this. When we are attentive we listen. When we are tired we ignore things.
But when we trust we tend to short cut things and believe quicker. Is it therefore all about trusting God?
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Matthew 28:6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
I’m not going to say “I told you so!” But I think Jesus would have loved to have gone round to each of the disciples and said it!
I’m sure the angel had great delight in showing up and telling the people as they came to the tomb that Jesus had already risen.
We serve a risen Lord. We serve a God who keeps His promises. We serve a God who loves us more than we realise and keeps on loving us throughout everything in our lives.
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John 2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
After clearing the physical temple of all the people who had treated it with disrespect and ignoring God, Jesus gave these words to His disciples.
The temple He was talking about was not the physical building but rather at His body; but this would not come to light until much later.
Jesus was keeping to the promises made many years ago and was at this time promising something which would come a few years later.
Trust in a God who always fulfils His promises!
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1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
When Solomon built the grand temple which His father David had planned, He knew it was not really big enough for God to live inside but this was all happening to give God the glory.
Solomon did not throw it all away just because he thought God could not fit inside the box; instead he continued to build the temple and finally blessed it with a very big celebration.
How much are you going to give to God, not physically, but in your worship time?
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Acts 7:48 However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
We cannot build anything with our own hands which is grand enough for God to live in.
These words go back to the prophet Isaiah who had words from God describing heaven as God’s footstool! Whereas Heaven to us is a rather large place where we will get to live for eternity.
Don’t try and make God fit into your world but rather try to make your ways fit in line with God’s ways – it will be a whole lot easier!
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Isaiah 65:3 A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;
Many times in the Old Testament we find the prophets having to give harsh words to the people to remind them of who God is!
Despite all of the history and how the Jews tried to ensure God’s Word was always remembered, many times the prophets came back with words like these.
This is not limited to history books or ancient times; we are much the same still. We continue to make things happen according to our own ways and leave God out of it.
Make sure you try to include God in everything you do!
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Matthew 5:11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
When Jesus was speaking these words He was talking to the disciples and warning them they should not expect to be kept safe from all reproaches in life just because they were disciples.
Bad things will not just be people hitting you or other physical things, they come in words and actions which bring emotional ill feelings as well.
The evil one will use any and every opportunity to discredit things we do in the name of Christ. We need to be careful and be alert at all times and trust God for direction.