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Psalm 37:34 Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Waiting for someone who is late is hard work. Do you wait a little bit longer in the hope they will turn up or do you give in and make your own plans?
We may well feel like this in our lives and walks with God when we do not see things happening as quickly as we want them to happen; but being patient with God will build character.
God knows how much we will take, knows what will make us stronger and knows what will break us. Do not give up on God because He is constantly working for you in the background when you least expect it!
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Zephaniah 3:8 “Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; All the earth shall be devoured With the fire of My jealousy.
God has a plan for each one of us in our lives and His plan has been in place from the beginning. We need to stop and listen for Him to find out when and where He is calling us.
God has already planned how to defeat our enemies and how to get us into the best position to prosper; we just have to trust Him!
Trusting in God can be difficult when we cannot see how He is going to win the fight with us. Trusting Him can be very difficult when all we have seen is destruction and failure. Trusting in Him can be difficult when we have lost too much.
Setting aside our pride and accepting His will in our lives allows us to move forward with Him.
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Isaiah 33:10 “Now I will rise,” says the Lord; “Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up.
It is not up to us to decide when it is the best time for God to help us out; that is His decision.
We may think we know what is best for ourselves and when we would like the help He has promised but He knows infinitely more than us!
If we have still got to wait on Him before we get an answer then we had better listen to Him and wait in earnest.
Do not be discouraged that He is asking you to wait a little bit longer or to put up with a little bit more; draw strength from Him to keep you going step by step forward.
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Psalm 12:5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”
When we call out to The Lord with open hearts He is able and willing to help us. His protection toward us stretches out when we call in help.
We seek a safe place to be and God offers us the ultimate safety system where He will save us from our enemies.
It is not the loudest shouter nor the richest shouter that will get God’s attention but each and every one of us. When we are oppressed He will stretch out His hand and protect us from our oppressors.
When we are weak and under stress He will give us the comfort and help we need. But we do need to call out to Him first of all.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
It took me a while to think about this verse today, not because it is so early in the morning but because I do tend to care a lot for others in need.
We live in a world where corruption is everywhere and where there are going to be poor and needy people who are treated badly.
This does not say we should just ignore things. This says that God is watching over everyone and sees everything.
That means be the Good Samaritan and help people instead of walking the other side. God wants us to join in and help.
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Psalm 46:4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
Where does this river start? It starts at the heart of God and flows without limit, but what does it look like?
Well it does not really look like a river! Imagine a river having loads of streams all joining up to form bigger river. Getting closer.
Imagine a river panning out to cover a flood plain. Imagine an unstoppable flood. Getting closer.
God’s love encompasses everything but does not destroy it like a flood will…
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Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb
What is this river? Is it baptism, the Holy Ghost, the joys of Heaven? I rather think this is the outpouring of God’s love to us all.
When we think of a river we think of something without end; the water just keeps coming and is not stopped by anything. If we try dam it up it will overflow.
God’s love is pure, much purer than any river we can see, and yet it has no end and keeps on coming.
And where does it look like it comes from; via Jesus Christ.
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John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
Jesus did not force Himself upon the world. He did not make up a time and go do it. There was a time where God knew was best for all mankind and that time was when Christ came to us.
When we begin to see that we also begin to understand how much God loves us because He sent Jesus at the best time for us.
This was not the best time for Him, nor the best time for Jesus the man; this was the best time for us to receive all we can from God.
Explaining this to people can be hard; so use Christ’s words instead of trying to make our own up to please ourselves.
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John 6:33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
Christ is here described as the bread of God because He did all things possible to ensure we were given God’s Word for our survival.
Our spiritual lives depend on the word of God, upon our understanding of it, upon the guidance given to us by the Holy Spirit and on our choices we make.
Christ made this all possible for us by giving His life so our choice can be effective and eternal. If He had not paid the price for our sins we would still have to atone for those sins time and time again.
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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Notice how this verse does not say things like “The punishment for the worst sin is death” or “The punishment for the unforgivable sin is death”; it simply says “sin” which means each and every sin.
Is that harsh? It may sound very harsh to us, but for a God who cannot abide sin in any form it is justice!
God has given us a way of leaving that sin behind. He has given us freedom to choose a life without sin.
We have to choose and we have to make the difference by inviting Christ into our lives first of all.
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Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
No matter who we are, whether we are Jew or not, we are justified by our faith in Christ and not any rule written down, obeyed or described.
We do not have to perform some great task or pay enough money in order for us to be made whole; it is our belief in Jesus Christ which is what is required.
Our justification will lead us to do good works and indeed if we do not do good deeds we are making our faith of no use because we are saying one thing and doing another.
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Matthew 5:18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
When God inspired people to write down His Word He made sure is was written down as something which will never change. Man has changed it by translating it and manipulating it to make some sort of sense.
But what God inspired has not changed, only our perception of it has.
I love the fact that Christ knew the word and knew the truth. I love the fact God gave us enough to make sure we could understand and grow in wisdom through His words.
He does not have to change anything which has been written down; but we do need to try and understand it better before we break everything!
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Psalm 119:89 Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.
No matter how much we try to promise here on earth we tend to break those promises and ultimately fail each other.
God’s Word is the ultimate promise and will always remain true and constant; it is rooted in Heaven and continues to remain so.
God’s will is described through His Word and that too remains as the perfect standard by which we can all hope to live by.
I long for the day when I will be in that perfect will and word in Heaven with God!
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1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Men, woman, priests, Kings, Queens; all men die some time. Nothing in the world is absolutely certain and that includes our time of death.
God’s Word has continued to defy people by staying current through many years of history and remaining the biggest selling book for some time.
It is the content of this amazing book which remains current and continues to amaze, teach and prepare man for what he has to deal with in life.
Year after year people get to hear the truth and realise it as we continue in faith.
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Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
When we look at the world around us we wonder how some things could ever change; we may look at a natural thing like Victoria Falls or Niagara Falls and wonder how they could not have been there to start with.
We then look at books and see how they crumble after a short time in the open and we make up our own ideas about which will last the longest.
Put aside your own thoughts and listen to what God has put down for us to read. No matter how many books, scrolls or whatever break down, God’s Word has stood firm and unchanging.
Fully Rely On God and not on things around us.
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Genesis 21:1 And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.
God will always come through on a promise He has made. No matter how many we break or how many we don’t see, God is always keeping His word!
Nothing is impossible with God either! He continues to make sure we know He is keeping promises; but we don’t always listen to Him!
Sometimes we just cannot believe how God will ever be able to keep His promises, but year after year we continue to see how He is handling things behind the scenes.
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Psalm 8:4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
There are a few videos out there which astound me and most of them are to do with the universe. We live on a planet which is nothing much when compared to the rest of the universe…
The only special thing about Earth is the fact we can live on it un-aided. That is not to say God has abandoned us because He has not; but we can live without having to create an artificial environment!
And yet no matter how insignificant we are in comparison to the rest of the universe, God still reached out and gave us all we need to survive out here in the wilderness!
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Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked?
When God puts something into your life or takes something out we should not strive to get back to normal but accept what God is doing.
It is difficult for us to see what is done by God and what is not when we have very bust lives, but if you spend time to think about circumstances and about God you will spot the difference.
God does know what is best for us, but are we willing to accept the best or do we strive to get what the world thinks is best?
Be patient with God but always be willing to change when He asks you to do so!
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Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned and saw under the sun that - The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favour to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all.
We like to measure things in terms of how fast they are, strong they are, how wise they are, how rich they are or how much they are admired by other people.
But when it comes down to things going wrong we always try to blame others rather than ourselves. We like to think someone can be blamed rather than finding no fault either.
We live in a world where things can and do go wrong; allow God to love and protect you even when they seem to be no hope.
God is good all the time; all the time God is good! I love that saying!
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Psalm 147:10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
It is amazing how much the power of a horse is taken for granted and not thought about nowadays. We talk of the power of many things as measured in horsepower and yet we don’t think about the fact we came from a time where a horse was used for work not so long ago!
God created the horse so many years ago and yet takes more notice of a feeble man who cannot even measure up to a horse in power.
But God does not take notice of how strong we are in comparison to other creatures; what He does take notice of is our spiritual strength and guidance.