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| Finding God's Will |
Yes, this is written to the church folks! Warning the unruly is important. Now the unruly are those who are idle. They seem to not get into any movement for God. They appear at church or even Bible study, but it appears they are there for the fellowship and not to learn more of their Creator or of His Son Jesus Christ. These unruly can come under the classification as the insubordinate as they do not respect the pastor nor the teacher at the teaching of God's word. They sit idle to do their own thing! They will also resist anyone they judge as not important and will actively not respect their guidance. You can see that with young teens today.
They are willful in their actions when they refuse to do what they are asked to do. When confronted for an inappropriate language or even the non-verbal expression of dissatisfaction such as eye rolling gesture, then the person is considered unruly. Do you have anyone like this living within your home?
For us to comfort the faint-hearted is also given to us in Hebrew 12:12. Hebrews 12:11-17 NKJV Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hand down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but rather be healed. 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled, 16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
As the born again believer, we have rights and we have responsibilities. As the believer we are faith people. We have the same faith our Father has. In this we speak as our Father spoke at the Beginning...."light be"! We speak God's word into existence in our own lives as He spoke. Our lives are not be about fleshly gratification but about making a difference in this world that brings glory to our Father and that we should be about doing.
A divine right is found in John 3:15..... "That everyone who believes in Him [God’s Son] has eternal life.”
So in that very moment that we believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior we exercise this first of our divine rights. We participate in God’s
life. Let me say that this is not a free pass to get out of a mess, but it is the new pathway for the believer to participate in God's eternal life. There is the possible wild seeds sown that will come to harvest and whatever those seed sown might show in an teens pregnancy, a disease picked up while having a fling even though married for twenty-five years. We should not view our salvation as that ticket to heaven, but understand God by His word directs us to understand and to share His eternal life with others as He has given to us. (see in John 1:12-13)
Believing in Jesus Christ comes to salvation, is repentance and comes by the power of God, His Holy Spirit, the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead!
So to comfort that faint-hearted, we must be equipped with that which comes by the Holy Spirit and is alive in us with that power. We give thanks for this!
In 2 Peter
1:4 Peter says, “Through
which He [God] has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that
through these you might become partakers of the divine nature…” In searching out God our Father, we see His promises revealing His nature to us. And it is the table He prepared for us to partake of these precious life giving bites of life that is eternal.
God's word feeds our spirit man, and gives light to operate in the fallen world of which we still live. As the born again believer we are born again to God's way of thinking. And we can claim this divine right every morning we awake!
1 Timothy 4:6 tells us that if you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. We read His word and find His thoughts. Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. So we cannot operate by the old man's thoughts but by those God has for us to live by.
So from 1 Thessalonians 5:14.... We are to uphold the weak! And we find this in: Romans 14:1 "receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things". Again we have the Holy Spirit to guide us in this situation.
Luke 24:49 "Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."
We have been enabled by the Holy Spirit to carry out the task. Finding the will of God is giving thanks for all that He has done through His Son for us. And we give thanks through situations but it's not about the situations. You should never thank God for cancer when cancer is of the devil , the evil one, the destroyer.
God came to give life abundantly and when we seek to worship and give thanks to Him daily, we find that desire of God coming through us that He purposed for us to do. Yes, some may be called in the business arena, some in the medical field, the scientific exploration of this world, the oceans or even the moon!
Jesus obeyed His Father and we should be willing to do that too. We should not be rolling our eyes, and only willing to do that which suits that fleshly fancy, but our obedience is the response of faith to any instruction from our Father God. And God's manifested presence and will is revealed when we choose to follow Him, stay close to communicate and worship Him with thankful hearts.
Fall into the activity of worshiping Him and giving thanks today and you will most certainly find God's will for your life!
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