By Faith, through Grace
First weekend of July 2014. This weekend has been a great one. I thank God for helping me to think about Him and to be close to Him.
Being a person who have a broken past, I feel lonely abit sometimes and today evening is one of those days. But God grace saved me and help me to focus in Him and in Him only. He keep reminding me not to worry about my future or anything, but to focus the moment and to learn how to be thankful for todays provision, to thank Him for the moment and to let Him control my future.
I meditate on God's word, which remind me about faith in God for His promises. Roman 4:16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring-not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham.
Every promise is the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith. And it will be fulfil to us as an act of grace, an unmerited favor to all of us.
The scripture John 5:5&6 was an inspiration to me.
It says, we all need to prepare and be ready with faith to receive what God promised us to give. In the verse Jesus asked the man who had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years, "Do you want to get well?" i believed Jesus is asking him if he is ready to get well! or if he is really earnest about getting well!! The man answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come into it myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me. Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your bed and walk"!
Verse 9, Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and WALKED.
The story tells us that if we try and do what we can do and wait for the Lord, He will do what we can't do. We should do what we can do and get ready by preparing ourselves with faith to receive what God has promised for us. The question Jesus has asked the man teach us that He will give it to us when we are ready to accept.
There must be many of you like me who fall again and again while trying to get there, we may be going round and round and not able to get out from the circle to reach where we are suppose to reach. But if we put our trust in God and keep trying, doing all we can by getting ready with faith in Him by expecting Him, God will definitely come by and He will say "Get Up! Picked up your bed and walk".
For some of us God may have ready to give His promise but we somehow need to learned on the way like the Israelite who failed God many times while they where trying to reach Canaan. The distance is only Ten days journey but maybe because of what they had done against God's will and giving up God instead of focusing on His glory, and instead by getting ready they disobey God. They failed to seek God's will and His guidance. They became passive and as a result they wander in the journey for 40 years. But our god is a patient God and He never forget His covenant and promises for His people. He teach them to obey Him and to know Him more. Some of us may have given up and may have lost our focus while God is ready to say to us "Get up! Take your bed and walk!
We may be weak and may have fail many times but let us not give up. Let us be determined and keep moving forward to receive the promises of God in our life. Let us continue to take the steps with faith and let Him save us by His amazing Grace for all the steps we can't take.
Lets wait and trust in our Father for His promises and let Him come to us in His good time for His glory.
Being a person who have a broken past, I feel lonely abit sometimes and today evening is one of those days. But God grace saved me and help me to focus in Him and in Him only. He keep reminding me not to worry about my future or anything, but to focus the moment and to learn how to be thankful for todays provision, to thank Him for the moment and to let Him control my future.
I meditate on God's word, which remind me about faith in God for His promises. Roman 4:16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring-not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham.
Every promise is the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith. And it will be fulfil to us as an act of grace, an unmerited favor to all of us.
The scripture John 5:5&6 was an inspiration to me.
It says, we all need to prepare and be ready with faith to receive what God promised us to give. In the verse Jesus asked the man who had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years, "Do you want to get well?" i believed Jesus is asking him if he is ready to get well! or if he is really earnest about getting well!! The man answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come into it myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me. Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your bed and walk"!
Verse 9, Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and WALKED.
The story tells us that if we try and do what we can do and wait for the Lord, He will do what we can't do. We should do what we can do and get ready by preparing ourselves with faith to receive what God has promised for us. The question Jesus has asked the man teach us that He will give it to us when we are ready to accept.
There must be many of you like me who fall again and again while trying to get there, we may be going round and round and not able to get out from the circle to reach where we are suppose to reach. But if we put our trust in God and keep trying, doing all we can by getting ready with faith in Him by expecting Him, God will definitely come by and He will say "Get Up! Picked up your bed and walk".
For some of us God may have ready to give His promise but we somehow need to learned on the way like the Israelite who failed God many times while they where trying to reach Canaan. The distance is only Ten days journey but maybe because of what they had done against God's will and giving up God instead of focusing on His glory, and instead by getting ready they disobey God. They failed to seek God's will and His guidance. They became passive and as a result they wander in the journey for 40 years. But our god is a patient God and He never forget His covenant and promises for His people. He teach them to obey Him and to know Him more. Some of us may have given up and may have lost our focus while God is ready to say to us "Get up! Take your bed and walk!
We may be weak and may have fail many times but let us not give up. Let us be determined and keep moving forward to receive the promises of God in our life. Let us continue to take the steps with faith and let Him save us by His amazing Grace for all the steps we can't take.
Lets wait and trust in our Father for His promises and let Him come to us in His good time for His glory.
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