Psalm 29 : 11 NKJV:
(11) “The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.”
Numbers 6 : 24–26 NKJV:
(24) “The Lord bless you and keep you;
(25) The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
(26) The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.”
Psalm 13 : 5 NKJV:
(5) “But I have trusted in your mercy;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.”
“Bring Me Your Weakness, and receive My Peace. Accept yourself and your circumstances just as they are, remembering that I am sovereign over everything. Do not wear yourself out with analyzing and planning. Instead, let thankfulness and trust be your guides through this day; they will keep you close to Me. As you live in the radiance of My Presence, My Peace shines upon you. You will cease to notice how weak or strong you feel, because you will be focusing on Me. The best way to get through this day is step by step with me. Continue this intimate journey, trusting that the path you are following is headed for heaven.”
Sarah Young
Jesus Calling
It is so easy to say you believe in God. It is so easy to tell other people that you are walking in total faith as you live your life. It is so easy to call yourself a Christian. But the truth of the matter is that it is not always so easy to actually walk the walk, to live based on your spiritual beliefs,…or to really trust and obey the Lord God as each and every day unfolds for you. There has always been a large gap between thinking, intending,… speaking, and actually doing what you say you are doing.
I can tell you that talk is cheap. Action is always expensive. True and real faith is always associated with some kind of work effort or activity and as such will always carry with it a related cost. Whenever you are in the act of exercising faith in God, you will have to pay some type of price…it is going to cost you something. Faith is an action word, and it has a price tag.
Real peace and happiness are truly gifts from God. Because it is His way of blessing you for exercising your faith and belief in Him and thereby drawing closer to Him. Your Creator God wants you to draw close to Him,…to pray to Him,…to commune with Him. It blesses His heart whenever His children communicate and fellowship with Him….It is the wise Believer in God who understands these simple truths and exercises them daily.
A person’s true beliefs are always manifested and displayed through the actual actions they take and services they perform. Regardless of what you say or what your stated intentions are, all observers truly know what you actually believe about being a Christian by how you act and how you live.
Now just stop and think about it for a moment. God has revealed Himself to you openly and unashamedly in many different manners and ways. He has written a Book to you through which He guides and directs you to a joy-filled life of productivity and happiness. He tells you precisely what and how to build good and righteous personal relationships through which all of the secrets of the Kingdom of God will be uncovered for you to discover and enjoy. He has fulfilled almost everyone of the prophecies about Him and His coming kingdom that have been written about Him centuries before the events actually happened. In short He has proved Who He is and What He is going to do so many times that any thinking human being can rest in total assurance that what He shows us and tells us are definitely trustworthy and reliable. For this very reason, when a person acts out or lives his daily life in complete trust and obedience to the Word of God, he definitely sets himself apart from the masses of humanity and thereby is easily recognized by God Almighty and all other surrounding people.
Successful people are always willing to do those very things and activities that the failures in life refuse to do.
You never have to wonder if a person is a Christian. Their words, and actions or lack thereof always confirm whether they are one or not.
When a man or a woman really believes and conducts their personal affairs in a commensurate godly way, they will attract other believers as well as non believers to them. God has commanded that all real believers share the truth of the Gospel of Christ to all with whom they come into contact. A real Christian always identifies himself. He is either a real believer or he is not! There really is no such thing as partial belief.
True Christianity is not a religion. It is a personal relationship with a living God. That is what separates it from all other beliefs and/or religions. You cannot have a personal relationship with a dead person….only with a living one!
God’s love of all people is totally unconditional. He loves all of His created people regardless of who they are, what they have done or failed to do, where they live, and what they believe. He made them and He loves them. He loves all of His Creations.
All of God’s Promises as recorded in the Holy Scriptures are, however, conditional. All of His Promises carry with them rewards and blessings but only to those who actually achieve and fulfill the conditions of the promise first. Failure to meet the conditions automatically cancels the rewards.
This is why you must trust God and obey what He instructs you to do. It is called righteous behavior. And,…everyone is capable of doing it, if they so choose. It is all up to you, God will not do it for you!
So, if you believe but you still have areas in your life of great weakness, immediately take them to God in prayer. Discuss them with Him, ask Him to help you strengthen those areas that need strengthening. And then GO TO WORK and get busy obeying what He instructs you to do!
Please review the referenced Scripture verses at the beginning of this discussion. Believe in the Word of God and be diligent about doing exactly what God tells you to do, as best you are able, from right where you are today. By simply beginning to be obedient to God’s guidance and doing as best you can do to follow that guidance, He will give you all the strength you will ever need to accomplish what He has given you to do with your life!
All things are possible to him who believes.
God’s Greatest Blessings to All of You…………..