Monday, June 18, 2018

God Makes a Way - Part One



Luke 1:37 “For with God nothing will be impossible.”

Just the other Sunday, Pastor Kyle preached about the provision of God in our Christian walk. You may have heard the old saying: When doors get shut in our life, God opens windows. But even more spectacular, opens doors that cannot be opened by His almighty hand. Life in this fallen world will surely have years in the proverbial desert with seemingly insurmountable obstacles where we ask: “what’s going on?” and “How long Lord?” We can rest assured that God will pave a way through the desert for us. Remember that problems and trials test and mature us.

Romans 8:31-32 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

Pastor Kyle listed four things for us to know about how God paves the path to our miracle. First, only a genuine relationship (not empty human religion) with God can get us to our miracle or through our obstacle. Be careful what you allow to enter your mind and heart. The great deceiver and enemy of the kingdom of heaven, the devil, come to steal, kill and destroy by distracting our senses off the Lord Jesus and sidetrack our time and walk with the Holy Spirit by way of lies that lead to sins of self-centered adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, addictions, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, disobedience, covetousness, greed, envy, and the like.

Deuteronomy 20:4 “For the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

Be aware that there is spiritual war in this world. So, cultivate a genuine relationship with the One true God of the Bible and reject all other gods. Not just filling time with pious activities, but with an obedient life in true relationship. The reason that we fail, sometimes, is because we are not following Father God and we shouldn’t expect much when God is not with us. Secondly, sometimes it will feel like we’re not getting anywhere. Just going through the motions, even religious motions, without a faithful and authentic relationship with our Lord God is just spinning our wheels or going in circles.

Let’s continue Pastor Kyle’s message o the next post.
In Christ, Brian

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