Monday, April 19, 2010

What does God actually do for us and how???

What is the 'CORE' that is behind what God does in our lives? That is the question. I am gonna let you think about that one for a while.





God is......... LOVE. So, my question to you is..... what is LOVE???





Love is........ the WILL of God. Soooooo, what is the 'WILL' of God???




God is in control of His invention, His creation. Only He is the One that knows how everything works- He makes it work. It is not mere physics as perceived by man. What makes acid burn? What contracts my lungs so that I could receive oxygen? What gives a seed wings to glide to its final destination. God has invented and created the earth, as well as those whom has pasted away, those living and those that are to come. It is very confounding in my fleshly wisdom, to know that God created 'YOU'.... 'B-E-F-O-R-E' He created the earth. And, yes, our days are numbered here in this 1st heaven.


How does the trees know when to grow pussy willows??? How do the birds in their migration know where to go??? As I have watched the documentary show on the Discovery Channel called "Life", the thing that is revealed to me is the complexity of God's creations- many I have seen that I could not have imagined myself. These things are incredible! What fun it must have been for God to invent millions of creatures- many of which are not even catalogued by man to this day!

But... 'WHAT' gives these things existence??? LIFE.




What is 'LIFE'??? Who gives it???




God is the giver of Life, the Author of Life. Only He is the One that giveth and taketh away. He is the Supreme Authority in what is... the 1st Heaven.... the 2nd Heaven.... and the 3rd Heaven; That is.... the earthly atmosphere.... the outer space.... and the Heaven where God is- the True Heaven.

What about the earth? The earth belongs and is ruled by the Prince of the earth- Satan. It is true, that the enemy can only do what He is allowed by God. But, let me get back on subject...

God is Love; the Pruner, the Restorer, the Builder, gives us Guidance, gives us desires, compassion, grace, mercy, duties. All on earth is done for His Glory, for Him, by Him- and allowed by Him.

ALLOWED BY HIM??? Yes, He is the giver of life. He allows trials and tribulations to happen in our lives. But who sets forth the trials and tribulations? That is done by our adversary- satan. The most glorious thing about this, AND YES IT IS GLORIOUS, is that the Lord our God gives us a 'get out of jail' card- meaning that He gives us a way to get through our divine trials that we go through and He delivers... us... from the grasp of the enemy.

I can testify many of times where I have been delivered. That is not to say that I have not rejected my trust in the Lord. In fact, I have rejected Him many of times... and so have you- knowing or not knowingly.

Peter rejected Jesus 3 times.... 3 TIMES! All probably in about 30 seconds!

The enemy will try and derail the believers in Him, to draw away the attention and trust in His Holiness- this work of the enemy will make us weary. And often times when we get weary, we begin to sin- and that is what the devil wants and why God sent His only begotten Son, not to judge it- but to serve it... to save it.

At that point, we have gone into our fleshly desires in the attraction of the ways of this world. We are going to fail. We are going to fall. There was only One person that was Perfect. There was only One who defeated ALL trials. There was only One who conquered the grave. And we can be saved by His stripes in His Resurrecting Power. What is that Resurrecting Power?




The Resurrecting Power is the power, the notion that nothing can bind Him, nothing dragged Him down. Hmmmm, nothing dragged Him down- now that can be debatable....

Just before Jesus was going to turn Himself in, He said a prayer to God. In Mark 14:32 Then they came to a place which was named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed. 34 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”

Even He faced perhaps the greatest threat of temptation; not wanting to abide in drinking of the bitter cup. He said a prayer: 35 He went a little farther, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him. 36 And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me;

He prayed that He could not face what was going to happen to Him after He turned Himself in. And you would think......... THAT WHAT EVER THE LORD DID HERE WAS DEVINE. That even His prayers could be answered. But, no. He relinquished and let go of that prayer as He continued to say in verse 36: nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”

Hmmm, a prayer that God did not honor. A prayer, that God may have never heard. This is very confounding again. There is no sin in God. He is the purest authority, we cannot comprehend His INTENSITY. The Intensity of God is soooo powerful, that not EVEN the angels can look at Him. So there is no wrong in God. There is only the WILL of God. And God is going to do what ever He wants- and He does. He does not need our suggestions in how to run things. Our ways are not His Ways.

Lets look at 1 John 5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

He hears us. Is it possible that God did not even hear Jesus' prayer to take the bitter cup away??? Wouldn't that be going against the WIll of God??? Wheeeeew, Yeah, that's something eh? That is deep and needs much meditation. Hmmmm, the Lord did come in the flesh. The flesh is weak. He did not come on His own Authority. Imagine that... God sent His Son to be in the flesh. When Jesus came and was born out of Mary's womb, He gave up everything or was not allowed to take His Eminent powers or Holiness w/ Him. And of what purpose would it have been if He was absolutely pure in Holiness when He went into the wilderness for 40 days to face much temptation??? He came in the FLESH!!! He became weary as He walked, He became hungry, He became angry (but for purpose). Deep people.... DEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. - This indicates that we CAN make REQUESTS be made known to God. Hmmmm, but it does not say to make your fleshly desires know to God. This scripture can say that we should look and pray for the Will of God and not what we desire. For Paul wrote to the Philippians:

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

Paul states in v.9 - saw in me, these do. Paul was an Apostle. His portion was given according to His faith; that is to say that he was very in tune w/ the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; he had a very close relationship w/ the Lord and did exactly as he was told, just as Jesus did what God instructed Him to do. Paul knew the limitless God, there were no boundaries, no hinderances that would fully separate him from God. And that is no different with us. We too can have a limitless empowerment, but only through the Lord Jesus Christ.

As we seek His Mystery, God is behind EVERYTHING that is to happen here on earth. True, there is a surplus of evil things that happen in this world that often hurts us. And I may say that the enemy has put those who practice sin in bondage. They do have his veil covering their eyes. This statement is pretty BOLD, and may not be received very well. God will turn them over to their own desires as well. We all make our own choices.

We are very much like lost sheep in these times when we wander away from Christ, that is not because He does not care for us... but, we can be drawn away by the craftiness of the adversary.

John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

When we are wandering in our flesh, Christ will call out to us because He values us. And if we value Him, we will return. We will have to repent of our sins.

Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

He is a Loving Lord our Savior; He corrects us. He teaches us. He thickens our Armor of God that we should don everyday. He s-a-v-e-s us.

*** Just below is a link of some comments that I have regarding what was written ***

4 comments:

  1. Nathan, there us some truth missing from what I have written... I think what us missing is what the purpose/definition is of prayer. So, it troubles me to think that Christ was not faultless and I question the words that were compiled. But still, He did not want to drink of the bitter cup- but only in prayer did He say that. Ultimately, He STILL yielded to the task ahead---- coming against the flesh and temptation and willfully accepted what was to happen.

    Temptation is not a sin either... He did continue to pray in the Spirit.

    The funny thing was I was excedungly sorrowful what I spoke of Christ's words about taking the cup away, but when I finished that scripture verse- everything was let go because it was coinciding with the Will of God.

    It was good to maybe try and clear things up. Bear with me, as I am still growing in Christ.

    Take care,

    Peter

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  2. I think in prayer, is where we can come before God and share our feelings. We are instructed to pray for all things. In prayer, we are ultimately coming before Jesus and speaking with Him; in the sense that we ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD and we are crying out to Him in prayer. Imagine, in Heaven... there will be no more pain, no more tears and no more fears

    The purpose of Christ asking the Father to take the cup away, is to show us that we too can accept God's Will in our lives. There are some exceedingly sorrow times that happen in our lives and we can all to often react in a non-obedient way; coming against the Will of God in ACTIONS of sin. Now, Christ ultimately gave up His sorrow as He became troubled and deeply distressed. But, look at what He was going to face- He was going to be put through the most gruesome death any man will ever go through. AND HE ACCEPTED it; I'm sure with thanksgiving and courage- to go through such a death... Because it WAS THE WILL OF GOD.

    If we are to be formed into the image of Christ's likeness, it is the ultimate challenge for us to meet. Christ faced the gruesome challenge and accepted it- all in the same prayer. He eventually accepted the Will of God. Us too, will accept the Will of God..... EVENTUALLY; but we continually being taught, continually being put through trials- I too, like to call these trials - FAITH BUILDING TRIALS. We too, can begin to accept things in our lives... knowing that Christ is behind every trial/scenario and that He will provide an 'out' for every tribulation.

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  3. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Prov 3:5).

    Wow, as I had said, approach with discernment. Some of which may have been of my own understandings...

    It is important to utilize the gift of discernment...

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  4. "Also, the Holy Spirit agrees with the Word. Not only is your spirit the lamp of the Lord, but the "Word is a lamp unto my feet." The Holy Spirit inspired the scriptures, so He won’t guide you in direct opposition to the Word. If you are in doubt, stay with the Word."

    -Tom Brown Ministries

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