God Knows Your Need

Three days earlier, the Israelites saw the Lord destroy the greatest army in the world. They watched in awe as God parted a great sea to deliver them and use it to defeat their enemy. They praised Him in song. 

Now they stand by a pool of bitter water and they are thirsty, complaining because the Lord didn't fix it their way, in their time.  Moses prayed.

Exodus 15:25 And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

God planned their journey and knew about their need before they got there. 

Nothing in our life takes God by surprise. We will never face a need that He hasn't already met. That should give us peace about all of life. 

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

I’m glad I serve a God who knows my needs. I serve an amazing God!

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Cast Down?

The troubled Psalmist asks his soul a question: "Since God is in control of this thing, why are you so upset?" Then he tells his soul the prescription it needs for joy in the valleys of life: "Hope in God.  He has it all under control. " 

Psalm 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

We might want to ask our souls the same question. There is no room for overwhelming sadness and fear in the heart of  believers.  

If there is really a God in Heaven, and if He is really our Heavenly Father, what right do we have to get upset over the difficulties of life? 

We don’t. Worry says, "God is dead! Life is hopeless and defeat is sure." 

Instead of letting worry sap your strength, ruin your nights, and shorten your life, take God’s prescription and let Him take care of your situation, Phil. 4:6-7. Matt. 6:7-8; Matt. 6:25-34.

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I Faint Not

The perils of Paul include prisons, beatings, stonings, shipwrecks, robbers, pain, hunger, thirst, cold and neckedness - 2 Corinthians 11:23–29.

In spite of his trials and tribulations, he says, “I faint not.”

2 Corinthians 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 

I’m interested in reaching the place where I can say like Paul, “I faint not.” That place is available to all of God’s children. 

While the outward man grows weaker approaching the grave, the inner man is renewed day by day. That’s why we need to feed on the Word of God and pray to the Father every day.

Each day has its own troubles, and each day demands its own supply of grace. 2 Cor.12:9

The secret for not losing faith is a proper perspective. Ask the Lord to help you to get your eyes off what you see and to look beyond this world to the glory that awaits in His presence, 2 Corinthians 4:18.

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The Consecrated Life

You can’t live the Christian life. It can’t be done.  If a life is to be changed and lived in the newness of God’s power, it must be lived through the Christian by the Lord Himself. 

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

The genuine, consecrated life is one that longs for the power of Christ to be in control of every aspect of life. 

The consecrated life is one that has ceased to live for self. In fact, it has died to self, it’s lusts and it’s attractions. 

It is dead to the world, but it is alive to God, His word and His will. All it wants is what God wants.

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