Tag: Faith

I don’t always know how God’s going to work all things together for my good.  Now, I don’t spend time thinking about how He’s going to do that.  Instead, now I have a “knowing” that He’s going to work things together for my good and it’s an incredible feeling of anticipation and understanding that I didn’t have before.  It’s such peace…

While being raised, like so many others, I was learning to be happy with God when things were going right in my life and to be angry and upset when things weren’t going the way I wanted them to, you know, the way I thought they should go – it was kind of a spiritual “no man’s land”.  I was up one minute and down the next.  I thought, “If God’s working all things together for their good, why are Christians living like that isn’t true?  Christians seemed to be like the world sometimes with their worry and stress, and then acting all holy and reverent at other times.  If this is Christianity, why are so many people involved in it and why was I wasting time on it?”

But then, through my ill health and broken dreams, God was about to show me what He really has in store for anyone who will take Him at His Word, for anyone desperate enough to follow His advice no matter the amount of opposition, no matter how hard the enemy tried to keep them from discovering the secrets to consistently living with God’s peace, rest and joy.

“Remember, Mark, your peace is not dependent on what’s going on around you.  If it is, the enemy’s always going to do what he wants with you.  Your peace is not to be a fair-weather peace.  I (God) want you to have all-weather peace, all-weather rest in your spirit, all-weather joy.”
Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn (Edits mine)

Oh, praise Jesus! He’s teaching me to live by real faith – faith that He’s always with me and using everything in my day to work together for my good.  My peace, rest and joy are no longer tied to what’s going on in my life.  God is setting me so free from circumstances and conditional Christianity and it’s the most wonderful thing in life.

And, He has this type of true liberty for everyone…☺

31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin (not believing Romans 8:28 was my sin so I was the servant of worry and unrest) is the servant of sin.

35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever:  but the Son abideth ever.

36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
John 8:31-36

God bless,

Mark

Are you impatient?  Do you speak a lot of negative words?  Does a lot of your conversation center around worry, doubt and fear?  If so, you can rejoice because Jesus loves to take our weaknesses and transform them by His glorious light, from glory to glory. ☺

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:4

And we know 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

“Mark, how’s this going to turn out for my good?”  Honestly, I don’t know.  BUT, I know God says it will.  You just need to see it through and let patience have her perfect work.

One of the key’s to maintaining faith is to not say anything negative – See James chapter 3.  It’s so true.  Simple, right?  Impossible?  Not according to God’s Word.  All we need to do is ask Jesus to help us put a guard over our mouth – The Holy Spirit will be faithful to help you do this.

It’s amazing how much what we say impacts our thought-life.  Keep praising and thanking God.  It makes all the difference, believe me.

Can you begin to see how much fun the Christian life can be?

God bless,

Mark