I wanted to blogg what I read in my BSF notes that amazingly hit home and it may with some of you others out there. Read Job 1-2. Job's suffering lay in the invisible world. Job's suffering was for the glory of God and the strengthening of Job's own faith.
John 9: Unlike the disciples, Jesus was not as concerned with what caused the suffering as with how to relieve it and how this very sufering may be used to reveal the glory of God's love and power more fully. What a lesson for me! Many times God allows suffering in ur lives in order to awaken our spirits. (See 1 Corinthians 11:30) Also God might today heal many diseases and deliver us from much suffering if we would only definitely come to Him in prayer and faith. (James 5:15-16)
Suffering sometimes allowed so that a special work of God shall be revealed to the world through the suffering.
Believer receives infinite assurance of God's concern for sufferers in that Jesus Christ, God the Son, suffered unspeakably in greater depth than any human has ever experienced.
When a person suffers yet has the courage to endure without murmuring against God, the strength of faith in God manifests a particular glory of God that many of us know nothing about.!!! Wow, I want to endure and trust in my suffering! I don't want to Grumble any more but believe and TRUST!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I am counting on God!
Wow, BSF was amazing today. God speaks right through the speaker each Wed morning right to my heart. That is because The Truth is spoken there! The truth is that we as Christians have to go through suffering as well as all the good things that the Lord blesses us with. It is in the suffering that he wants us to draw nearer to him. He doesn't want you to grumble and complain but to trust in Him that you are in that situation to grow, to be disciplined, to love Him more.
We are so desperate to know the how and why's of our sufferings. I am not talking of the daily sufferings but the times when you don't know where to turn, why God would put you in this situation, and the times you just don't know if you can bear one more day of your situation. WE want to know WHY..WHY...WHY.. We want to search scriptures of how to exactly get healing, pray the right prayer. We want the mechanics... a method...not WHO. I want to focus on the who no matter the situation I am going through. I am going to stop complaining, and get on my knees and give Him thanks for my sufferings and know that it is a privledge to be going through them. Through them, he gives me endurance. Suffering is necessary to strengthen my dependance on God himself. I want to worship God for who he is and not for what he can do in my life.
We are so desperate to know the how and why's of our sufferings. I am not talking of the daily sufferings but the times when you don't know where to turn, why God would put you in this situation, and the times you just don't know if you can bear one more day of your situation. WE want to know WHY..WHY...WHY.. We want to search scriptures of how to exactly get healing, pray the right prayer. We want the mechanics... a method...not WHO. I want to focus on the who no matter the situation I am going through. I am going to stop complaining, and get on my knees and give Him thanks for my sufferings and know that it is a privledge to be going through them. Through them, he gives me endurance. Suffering is necessary to strengthen my dependance on God himself. I want to worship God for who he is and not for what he can do in my life.
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