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We need to listen to God’s call on our lives making sure we are where He wants us to be. As we listen to His voice and follow His leading, He promises to direct our paths, bless us, and build us up in our faith. We need to do all we can to be a blessing to everyone around us, faithfully living under His clear direction. God is the one who will make us a blessing to others. He is the one who will protect us. He is the one who will lift us up to use us in a
mighty way for His ultimate glory.
We all know what it means to rebel against God. We rebel against God when we go our own direction, when we disobey His commandments, when we don’t seek His guidance, when we seek our own self-interests and when we merely seek our own security. The reality is that God will always see through our rebellion. He knows how rebellious we could be and He can make things even more difficult for us in our rebellion. But I am thankful as we follow Christ that in the end God will always have His way with us to the praise of the glory of His grace.
Our ongoing rebellion against God has brought about national separation, corrupt political leadership, family division and cultural strife. God continues to overcome these conflicts by drawing people to Himself from every nation, tribe and tongue through the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
The resurrection of Christ is central to the gospel message. After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to many people. It makes no sense to say that Jesus rose from the dead if there is no resurrection of the dead. But Christ has been raised from the dead.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
What legacy will you leave with your family as you lead? If you do not lead your family, you and your family will suffer. If you do not lead, don’t expect anyone to follow. With Christ’s help, we should do all we can to leave a legacy of hard work, sobriety, sexual purity, training in righteousness, Godly discipline, and a life completely surrendered to God.
Our recovery after the storm begins with worship.We can begin again under God’s favor.We can begin again under God’s blessing.We can begin again under God’s promises.
Our Heavenly Father has warned us about the wrath to come. But at the same time, He has offered His divine protection and provision in the midst of the storms we face. By God's grace He offers His immediate care for us in the midst of every storm. We need to simply enter into His gracious protection where He promises to shelter us and lift us above every circumstance. He will remember us as He leads us to a new beginning after the storm.
Our sin and rebellion against God will always bring about the righteous storm of God’s judgment. But God has provided a way for us to find peace and safety in the midst of the storm. Our faithful participation in God’s provision will secure our salvation through every storm.
Our blatant rebellion against God has had incredibly negative consequences. But our righteous obedience to God will always bring God’s favor. We need to do all we can to overcome evil with good in the power of Christ.
God designed us to walk with Him under His blessing.Our sin disrupts our walk with God.We need faithfully walk with God.
Ephesians 4:31-32 - Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”
The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you—his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—so shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.