Again, there’s so much I could say about today’s topic. God is just SO GOOD. ☺
Keep believing dear Christian brothers and sisters. The reward for doing so is matchless. See Hebrews 11:6
God allowed circumstances in our lives that made us desperate for His Word. We’re so grateful He gave us no other way out.
Ann and I were pretty miserable for most of the 13 years we lived in Oregon. We had people around us who loved us, but we just couldn’t seem to make much headway spiritually until…
We began doing the Word. We taped scriptures we needed for survival all over the walls of our home. We quoted them to each other and tried as hard as we could to believe their truths, to “stand” on them. Little by little, we began to have changes in our hearts, souls and minds. We had victory over the super-defeating thoughts that plagued us and weighed us down.
That’s why we like to share with others how God honors His Word and how He leads us through things in life that will build our faith and trust in Him. As a result of learning to depend on His Word, we’re having more peace and rest in our spirits and it’s making a huge difference in our lives.
The Apostle Paul asks his readers to “do” what they’ve heard and seen him do. What a blessing it is to trust in and obey Jesus. Trust and obey…That’s the “doing.”
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and (because of doing the Word) the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians 4:6-9
Ann and I would never have come to believe the blessed truth in Romans 8:28 if we’d never made the decision to put God’s Word into practice every day.
One of my all-time favorite Apostle Paul verses –
And we know (“knowing,” truly knowing, is the destination, and God’s reward for believing and doing the Word like the Apostle Paul did) that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
God bless,
Mark