Spring signs and the sky. February23.
Reparing wool socks.
The light has been coming more each day this last weeks and the mornings has been so beautiful in the sunrise.
I’ve been able to walk a bit more after work, not every day but I do enjoy it every time I do short or longer walk.
For me it isn’t how far I walk, it’s about to do it, to have the extra energy in my body.
(From the preaching June 23.)
Life challenge when we ask God specific what we want and which door He open.
Genesis 15:1-5;
1,«After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, «Do not be afraid, Abram I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.» 2,But Abram said, «Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damscus?» 3,Then Abram said, «Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!» 4,And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, «This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.» 5, Then He brought him outside and said, «Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you able to number them.» And He said to him, «So shall your descendants be.»
What do we do when things doesn’t go like we want? Have God told you something that you are still waiting on? How does God’s challenge you? And does God challenge you like he challenged Abraham?
Are you trusting God and God’s plan, when things aren’t going like you thought? Are you standing there and asking «where did you go God?» Just because you don’t feel God?
What does the Hebrew letter say to us?
Hebrew 6:13, 6:19.
6:13; «For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself»
6:19; «This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the evil.»
Where are your anchor?
Who is your anchor?
Are you trusting God and His plan for your life?
Why do we fear God and don’t trust ourselves? Because we don’t trust God enough.
How and what do we do with the covenant we have to and with God?
Make sure that the anchor fall totally down to the bottom. Make sure that the anchor do it’s purpose in your life!
Does your faith endure challenges?
Do you trust God?
My thoughts….
I know I trust God. I reminding myself of the fact that I have to put all my life into his hand if my life is gonna to work. If I don’t trust my Heavenly Father I don’t know how my life would look like. Well I know it wouldn’t look like it do right now.
This preaching has enough questions to read this more then twice! Which I hope you do. Sit down somewhere you feel you can get some input from God. Think over those questions, see if you can answer them right away or if you actually need some time maybe days. It’s not an easy answer here!
As far as I know, I know I trust God and give Him my life every day but do I listen to all He says? I believe I miss some of all the things he is trying to tell me. I can be busy with other things or maybe it’s the TV that take “all my attention”?
I want to be challenge of God in my life, I don’t know if I am ready for it all the times though. I believe those questions are important! to live with every day! And I think it’s one of the challenges God has given us.
To be there and listen to him.
To trust him always.
To not fear.
To accept a challenge and learn on the way in our Christian life wherever we are in our journey with Him. ❤
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To help ourself is smart 👍But do not forget to help others 💞
God has given us different types of gifts to use in faith, to reach out, to share.
Try to not copy someone you know, try to do your thing all way out your way. 😊 Be creative. Think different. Think big. Believe and have Faith in how you reaching out to those who doesn’t believe or have heard of God.
Station your Life.
I have not been able to go to church for weeks or months because of work and body. But last Sunday the 23rd of July I did go. And I did not just enjoyed the worship I also liked the preaching. It was like God wanted to remind me of important things about life.
The headline was: Receiving Guidance from God.
The important W’s…coming below.
Three ways to tune-in to God;
1, I must realize that God cares about the details of my life. Matthew 6:31-32. To tune-in to God. 2, Ask God a specific question. James 1:5a 3, Believe HE wants to Answer. Pray with exceptions to God. James 1:5b-6.
How to receive Guidance from God;
The first W; WITHDRAW. Get alone in a quite place. Focus on God.
Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”
This is something I have a hard time with. To have it quite around me… I like to have music around me. It’s easier for me to focus with sounds (even when I write a blog I need music to focus). So how will I do this?But I have found a time in my life when it’s more then less quite, and that is when I am out walking my cat. Then I talk to God, asking God for advice and telling Him how I think about things in my life. I guess God knows me that well that he uses me when I am surrounded by people in prayer, because that is my best “quite time”.
The second W; WAIT. Calm your thoughts and emotions. To be quiet. To station your life = don’t move. Good have make you good!
Sometimes it’s so hard to wait! To wait on answers, on God to make a move, to let Him take control. But it’s worth it. My time isn’t God’s time and that means that he do answer when he knows I am ready to hear what he has provide for me. I have learn that it is worth waiting on the answer after I have asked God for a specific thing. I also know that I can ask God for whatever I want. But it doesn’t mean he will answer everything I ask for. I call that faith to trust God, that he really do knows what I need.
The third W; WATCH. Let God give you a picture.
Habakkuk 2:1. “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected.”
Ephesians 1:18. “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints”
Hebrews 5:14. “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their Senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
God is using my creative brain in many ways. One way is by giving me pictures when I pray for others. He has done that since the Day an other person prayed for me. But watch is also about how to let God in to your brain and let him be apart of your prayers in a visual way. Like, if you are in focus with God in your prayers God will use your brain if you let him. HE wants us to watch and write done what we receive from him.
The fourth W; Write. Record the ideas you’re receive.
Habakkuk2:2. “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.”
Benefits of write is… A)Keep you focus on God. B) Allows you what you said to God and what God said to you. C) Not every IDEAS is from the Lord.
When the woman who were preaching said this, and I thought this fit me. I write, a blog, that I feel I have got as a gift from God to do. And it was also like an answer from God and he gave me this line; “I want you to write more. More about your faith on me.” Which is what I at least do know.The woman who preached also said “always bring a journal with you so you can write down what God is telling you”. Nearly wherever I go I have this small notice-block with me if God is speaking to me or giving something to me. We should all have a notice-block with us. I also have a notice-block on my smart-phone, and I just have to say Thank you God for Apps !! Some of them are SO good!! 🙂
I do keep my focus on God and asking God what to write about in life. Out of experience I’ve learn the hard way that not every idea is from God but in my life many are! To write allows me to both remember what I said to God and to hear his voice.
The fifth W; WORSHIP. Thank God for speaking to you.
Habakkuk 3:2. “O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.”
Through your relationship with God, God will fill you. Believe in God. Became friend with God.
For me is Worship the Holy part of connecting with God and listen to what and if He has something to tell me, greetings to someone else or maybe a picture that says more then words. It’s my way to «Catch-up» with God. To sing out my prayers in the worship. To honer Him, He who is my Father. To be in his atmosphere and just enjoy and receive grace and love from Him. I always ask God to use me if He want or need me to give someone else a picture or a greeting, in the worship, because I know He hears my willingness to be used by Him.
We ended the preaching with this song; “You are a good, good father.” And the words in this song is powerful.
Good Good Father by Chris Tomlin. Good good Father
I’ve heard a thousand stories of what they think you’re like
But I’ve heard the tender whispers of love in the dead of night
And you tell me that you’re pleased
And that I’m never alone
You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am
I’ve seen many searching for answers far and wide
But I know we’re all searching
For answers only you provide
‘Cause you know just what we need
Before we say a word
You’re a good good father
It’s who you are, it’s who you are, it’s who you are
And I’m loved by you
It’s who I am, it’s who I am, it’s who I am
Because you are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways to us
You are…
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