Wednesday, February 07, 2007
@ 5:54 PM
SNL 3rd Feb
There are 3 characteristic of God's nature that we must understand and know, these have significant influence on our knowing and doing of God's will
1. God is Love1 John 4:16 says, God is Love
God's very nature is LOVE. He can never contradict His own nature. God's will for us is all out of His perfect love, He therefore cannot do evil to us, just like we cannot bear to destroy what we created with our own hands
God's kind of love always seeks the best for a person, therefore He can never give us the second best, as His nature will not allow Him to. Therefore He must and will always give us the BEST
God does bring discipline, judgement on those who continue to sin and rebel. but His disicpline is all based on the thing called LOVE
Hebrew 12:6
For whom the Lord loves, He chastens and scourges every son whom He receives
bad things happen to us to train and test us, and often when bad things happen, we cannot understand why, but listen even though we don't understand why it happened, we must always know His
LOVE WILL
NEVER CHANGEHis love for us was settled at the cross, we should not let circumstances dictate on whether He loves us or not. When we look at our problems or bad situations, we need to look at the problem WITH the
BACKDROP OF THE CROSS BEHIND. Remember,
HE LOVES1John 3:16
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us!
God's commands are for our own good
Deut 10:12-13
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
Life is full of land mines, God doesnt want us to wreck our life and miss out His best for us, go His way and LIVE!
2)God is all knowing
His directions is always Right, even when it doesnt make sense
God is all knowing, He knows the past, the present and the future. nothing is outside the knowledge of God. When God gives us a direction, we can be sure hat He has already considered every factor that must be considered.
We will never follow a direction that God has given and find out that He have made a mistake. His direction for us is always right.
When ever God gives us a direction, it is always right, God's will is always the best and we no need to question whether is His will the best or is it right, it will always be the best and right
because God loves us perfectly, we can trust Him and obey Him completely
3. God is all POWERFUL
He can enable us to accomplish what He ask us to do
God always seek ordinary man to do extraordinary things for Him. because ordinary man in the hands of an extraordinary God lives extraordinary lives!
God always give His people assignments that are beyond their ability, so that the world can see that it is God who is working in the place
God'sways and thoughts are very different from ours, that sometimes it may seem to be ridiculous, crazy or even impossible to be done.
to accomplish assignments that are beyond our ability, we must TRUST GOD COMPLETELY so that He will enable and equip us to do everything that He ask for us to, dun ever try to guess what He is trying to do, just let Him be God and turn to Him
Ways of experiencing God
1. knowing He is at work around us.
God NEVER stop working, imagine how horrible it can be when God stops working?
Jesus recognised that the Father is always at work, God did not create the world and leave it as it is, He is not just sitting on some throne and watching what is happening without any actions.
God is present and in the middle of all history, He is the one who worked to redeem a lost world, His desire is to involve His people in reaching the lost!.God is always at work in our world, because of His love for us, He wants us to have the privilege of working with Him as His ambassadors. He wants to work through us.
2. experiencing God by working with Him
How can i know where God is working?
Romans 3:10-11, John 6:44
both of these verses states that no one will seek god on his own initiative, no one will ask spiritual questions if God is not working in His life, these things are examples of God working in their life, and that is what only God can do.
Why working with God?
When we work with somebody, we would get to know that person better and grow closer to him, this applies as well with working with God, we work with Him to know Him better and grow closer to Him
Thats all! -CS