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Matthew 26:39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
Do we have a right to complain to God? Yes we do! Jesus was showing us here that we have the right to say to God that we don’t like things.
It does not mean that we should go off and do our own thing just because we don’t like what God gives us though.
Jesus made it clear that he would follow God the Father no matter how much He Himself did not relish the prospect of so much pain and suffering.
Accept what God gives you. Question it and test it. But accept it!
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John 5:30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
Christ is not a law unto Himself as many like to think they are but is part of the Trinity. In order for the Trinity to be the truth they have to agree on and about everything.
What Christ hears, not from men but from God the Father, He retells and uses to show others.
Christ is not seeking to puff Himself up but to lift up the name of Christ instead. When we get to hear what Christ has said, we can be sure that those words came from God and not just from His own lips.
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John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”
If God did not work on Sabbath days I think the word would fall apart!
God rested on the seventh day to give us direction and a time to remember Him. It did not mean He did absolutely nothing on that day!
God the Father, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit continue to work each day as required; but all three encourage us to rest on the Sabbath to remember them by.
Do not let go and expect God to do everything but do give God control and expect Him to give you work!
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John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
When you love or respect someone you normally will try to listen to them and obey them when asked something of them.
When we show others love and respect they will be more likely to trust us with things or to open up to us more.
When we listen and respect God, we will find He is more willing to share more with us and allow us to grow with Him.
Trust and obedience leads to much more than peace with God!
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Jeremiah 29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
We have always had to face people who will try and lie their way through life and just because we may know some of the truth does not stop others from telling even more lies!
God has been warning us about people who will give us stories that sound so good that they invite us to trust in them.
There is always going to be people who cannot accept the fact that God knows best and they will make their own truths to sound better.
Listen to God first and foremost because He will never lie to us.
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Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.
Jesus would always try to encourage the disciples by being positive and showing so much love to all around Him, but He would still make sure they understood the gravity of their lives at times.
We live in a world where so many people try to deceive us in so many ways; we cannot always understand why people try so hard to be evil, but they do.
God wants us to stay firmly focused on what is righteous so we can know when others come in with lies.
Don’t believe just because it sounds good or makes sense – make sure it is the truth…
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1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
It is great to know that our Bibles have references to other writings!
The apostle obviously had read, or at least heard, the poem referenced and uses it to remind the Corinthians that the world does have good sounding words, but does not always convey the truth.
The people who do not walk with God will not be upholding God’s Word and His ways; they will be upholding their own ways or the ways of the world.
We need to keep focus on God so we can know His ways and live for Him.
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Psalm 106:35 But they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works;
One of the worst things we can do to ourselves is to give in to the ways of people around us and just go and do what they do even when we know it is wrong!
If we have learned something is wrong then we should be standing up for what is right! Giving in to what is wrong is just foolish!
And yet so many of us continue to do it without thinking – be it giving in to ways, language, behaviour, or whatever else goes on around us, we are not helping ourselves.
God wants us to be strengthened through standing up for righteousness and not giving in to evil. Do the exercise and grow in strength!
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Exodus 16:2 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
No matter how important people are, if they start talking about things you don’t want to hear or don’t believe, you will begin to switch off and think of other things.
This is a problem that we all face and we all come up against some time in our lives because the evil one is trying to distract us and to make us doubt even more.
The people wanted more than Moses was giving them and they started complaining because Moses was sticking to what God was saying.
Are you strong enough to stick up for God even when you find people falling asleep or turning away from you?
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Deuteronomy 8:3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
When we are too proud to do something the only person who loses out in the end is us…
God does not require a lot from us when we compare what the world wants from us against what He requires of us; but we give in to the world…
Time after time God gives us space and He tries to guide us in the right direction. Time after time we chose to do nothing or to go the other way because we are too proud.
God is trying to teach us to be humble so we can accept what we really need and not take what we want!
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Psalm 103:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:
Lifting up the name of Christ and making sure He is recognised for all He does should be our daily pleasure.
It is Christ who was there at the very beginning putting things into place. It is Christ who was there on the cross for us. It is Christ who will be there for us throughout time.
When we do take time to recognise all that He does for us and all that He has already done for us, we rejoice!
Let those memories never leave us so we can rejoice continually in all He has done, forever.
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Psalm 22:22 I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
Are your brave enough to praise God when the world around you is calling for Him to be crucified?
Peter failed Jesus three times and yet we see him as a man of great faith and love for God.
Do not be discouraged by a failing now and again because we can take a step back and lift up our hands in glorious praise to our King of Kings.
Sometimes we do fail because we see no way out. Just know your love for Christ and keep it in the front of your heart and mind!
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Psalm 22:1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?
These are the word Jesus used on the cross and yet we read about them hundreds of years before Christ came in human form.
This is God showing us that even though the world changes in so many ways and we may even fall apart at the seams, He continues to be the same forever.
We may think that God has left us alone in the desert or feel like we are the ones being crucified, but God is there and He is watching over us.
We may not like what we see now, but we will love what we get to be when we see Jesus face to face!
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Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.
Have you ever tried to make up rules for a game? It seems easy at first as we make the first few, but when we get to play the game we find so many look holes!
God tried to make the rules to live by as simple as possible so there would not be any ambiguity – and yet we still find fault because of the way we think!
When God said they should not muzzle the ox at work it was also directing us in the way we should be working.
Don’t limit your thinking to the here and now and the physical things around us. Our thoughts and prayers should go far beyond of imaginations so we can get to know God better!
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Numbers 22:28 Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
This is one of the stories I love to tell because it is just so real and yet so unbelievable!
We all get to the stage where we are just doing stuff because it has been done that way forever; and we treat stuff with contempt because we don’t know why!
God reminds us we need to make sure we do not take anything for granted otherwise we lose sight of how much he does for us!
Having the donkey talk back is just what we need at times when we have refocused on the world instead of God!
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Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Love is expressed in your whole life and not just in front of the one you profess to love. It is easy to spot someone who does love like Christ wants us to love because they are the ones showing love to those others are mistreating.
Equally the so called love that a cruel person shows is nothing more than a sham!
God wants us to open our hearts and love with everything we have and not just for the moment.
Show you love openly, not your lust.
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Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
In order to be kind to each other we have to aim to set things right first of all; this can be as hard as we want it to be or as simple as this verse says.
Putting aside all of the ill feelings, evil ways, harsh thought, harsh words and setting aside the feelings that have built up from past events will release us to move forward.
It may take us a long time before we have the courage and strength to be able to do this; but with God and through God we can and must try.
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Ephesians 4:32 And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Road rage, or any other rage is a result of anger and ill feeling building up inside of you; the expressing of all of those feelings coming out as rage!
If we are not careful we will take all of the bad things that happen in our lives and allow them to build up until we just have to vent them!
God knows we cannot carry around such a heavy burden and wants us to put them down through forgiveness and love toward one another.
It is only by being pro-active that we can avoid ‘road rage’ in our lives.
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Matthew 6:14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
The first step toward being able to love your neighbours is to be able to forgive them; which is a pretty big step to take!
Just as we have been given great gifts from people who we have done wrong to, so we should be willing to give great gifts to those who wrong us – forgiveness is a fantastic gift.
Christ showed us His love by taking the blame for our sins. He effectively forgave us there and then for all we do wrong.
Show God some love by not turning back to those sins He has paid for already…
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Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
I find it amazing just how far parents are willing to go to ensure their children get just a little bit more than they deserve… I know, I have been there!
We do go that bit further than what is actually required just because we love our children.
God has shown us just how much He loves us by allowing Christ to die on the cross for us; and now we can count our blessings as we see how much more He is willing to do for us when we ask.