Doubts and Questions

Do you have the virus of doubt? Maybe you doubt that God has really forgiven your sins or that the Bible is really the Word of God. Do you question why God lets people suffer? Maybe you prayers aren't being answered and you doubt that God really cares. 

You have plenty of evidence that God is real, that the Bible is true, and that God cares about you.

Because we are finite people with finite minds, we can't understand everything about an infinite God. Our questions don't always have complete answers. As we mature in our faith over the years, perhaps God will show us answers or we may have to wait until we get to heaven.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

If we had all the answers, there would be no room for faith.

What In The World Does A Christian Do?

To begin with, we are the Lord's ambassadors, sent to represent Him in the world.

Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto thee, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore The Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

We are also neighbors, looking for opportunities to show mercy in the name of Christ.

But at the heart of all our ministry is devotion to Christ, so we To begin with, we are the Lord's ambassadors, sent to represent Him in the world.

Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto thee, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore The Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

We are also neighbors, looking for opportunities to show mercy in the name of Christ.

But at the heart of all our ministry is devotion to Christ, so we must be worshipers who take time to listen to His Word and commune with Him.

Whether we are in the harvest field, on the highway, or in the home, our highest privilege and our greatest joy is to do the will of God.

 who take time to listen to His Word and commune with Him.

Whether we are in the harvest field, on the highway, or in the home, our highest privilege and our greatest joy is to do the will of God.

Hurts, Habits, and Hang-Ups?

There is a God who loves you and will give you power to overcome your "hurts, habits, and hang-ups".

It has been said that a man can live four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food, and only four seconds without hope.

The reason people don't have hope is because they don't have faith. You must earnestly believe that God exists, that you matter to Him, and that He has power to help you recover from your "hurts, habits, and hang-ups". A power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity. 

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

It doesn't matter who you are

It doesn't matter where you've been

It doesn't matter what the scar

It doesn't matter what the sin

It doesn't matter how you fell,

Somewhere along the way;

There's healing and hope for your life today

(And it's found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ)

When Things Go Wrong

When things go wrong it doesn't mean that God has forsaken you or doesn't love you or that you are not important to Him. Things can go wrong even if you are doing everything right in your Christian life.

Remember, God did not save us from trouble, but from sin. He did not save the Hebrew Children from the fiery furnace; He saved them in the furnace.

1 Peter 1:6,7 . . . if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes we must go through the fire because:

• God is trying to make us sweet
• God is removing those things that are not pleasing to Him
• God is correcting an attitude
• God is teaching us to lean on Him
• God wants to use us to do something special for Him

God promises that you will never have more trouble than you can bear.