Calvary greetings to you saints in the lord, i hope you were blessed with the first part of this topic, please find below the concluding part of the topic - The Faithfulness of God. I prophesy to some one today, God in his faithfulness show up on your case this year with a solution in Jesus name. Amennnnnnnnnn.
3)
LAY HOLD
OF THE PROMISES!
The fact that GOD IS FAITHFUL means that God can be relied on to do what He has promised. If we trust Him, claiming His promises, He won't fail us. When it comes to His promises, the more we accept them "as if" true the more we'll find they are true.
This has very practical consequences, because the Bible is full of many great and precious promises given us by God, and we can approach them in different ways. We can approach them with scepticism - but scepticism drains all the power out of the promises of God and renders them powerless to help us personally.
Or we can approach them awe and receive them with faith - laying hold of them and personally appropriating them for ourselves. This is how God wants us to handle his promises - not as objects of study but as tools for victorious living.
The fact that GOD IS FAITHFUL means that God can be relied on to do what He has promised. If we trust Him, claiming His promises, He won't fail us. When it comes to His promises, the more we accept them "as if" true the more we'll find they are true.
This has very practical consequences, because the Bible is full of many great and precious promises given us by God, and we can approach them in different ways. We can approach them with scepticism - but scepticism drains all the power out of the promises of God and renders them powerless to help us personally.
Or we can approach them awe and receive them with faith - laying hold of them and personally appropriating them for ourselves. This is how God wants us to handle his promises - not as objects of study but as tools for victorious living.
4)
HE
PROMISES TO KEEP
You will find the first one I want to use to encourage you in 1 Corinthians 1:8-9. The background is that there was a great deal of difficulty in the church at Corinth - there were divisions and there was moral scandal. The Christians in Corinth were living in a city that was notorious for corruption immorality and pagan superstition.
"He will keep you strong to the end” Here then is a promise that God will KEEP US STRONG - and not just for a while but "to the end" if we look to Him and rely on Him. One of the most frequent mistakes many Christians make is to rely on their own limited resources rather than God's infinite resources. All that God calls us to BE he is ready to give us the strength to be, and all that God calls us to do He is willing and able to give us the strength to do.
You will find the first one I want to use to encourage you in 1 Corinthians 1:8-9. The background is that there was a great deal of difficulty in the church at Corinth - there were divisions and there was moral scandal. The Christians in Corinth were living in a city that was notorious for corruption immorality and pagan superstition.
"He will keep you strong to the end” Here then is a promise that God will KEEP US STRONG - and not just for a while but "to the end" if we look to Him and rely on Him. One of the most frequent mistakes many Christians make is to rely on their own limited resources rather than God's infinite resources. All that God calls us to BE he is ready to give us the strength to be, and all that God calls us to do He is willing and able to give us the strength to do.
5) RESISTING TEMPTATION
There's one particular area of life where the New Testament underlines God's faithfulness - and that's when it comes to temptation. Two verses deal with God's faithfulness to His children "in temptation's hour." One is 2 Thessalonians 3:3. Again, the Christians in Thessalonica were facing hard times and sometimes struggling. But Paul tells them:"The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one."(1. Cor 10:13)
These promises are given to us to encourage us when we are tempted - to make us realise that we're not meant to face temptation unaided - that God is there to help us, and that if we look to Him and rely on him he won't let us fall. God, as a faithful Father, promises us THREE THINGS: He promises us strength, protection and a way out.
There's one particular area of life where the New Testament underlines God's faithfulness - and that's when it comes to temptation. Two verses deal with God's faithfulness to His children "in temptation's hour." One is 2 Thessalonians 3:3. Again, the Christians in Thessalonica were facing hard times and sometimes struggling. But Paul tells them:"The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one."(1. Cor 10:13)
These promises are given to us to encourage us when we are tempted - to make us realise that we're not meant to face temptation unaided - that God is there to help us, and that if we look to Him and rely on him he won't let us fall. God, as a faithful Father, promises us THREE THINGS: He promises us strength, protection and a way out.
B: THE EXTENT
OF GOD’S FAITHFULNESS.
v
God's faithfulness is great. (Lamentations 3:23) They are new every
morning; great is your faithfulness.
v
God's faithfulness reaches to the skies. i.e. it extends beyond any limitation, both physical and
spiritual
Psalms 36:5 Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness
to the skies.
Psalms 89:2 I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you
established your faithfulness
in
heaven itself.
v All
God's work is done in faithfulness.
Psalms
33:4 For
the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
SUMMARY
God's faithfulness is shown in
strengthening and protecting those He has called, guarding them from the evil
one, sanctifying them wholly and preserving their entire -- spirit, soul and
body -- without blame at the coming of Jesus. This confidence of God's children
in regard to their future is not in their faithfulness, but in His.
I want to encourage you to
believe - to take Him at His word - to trust His promises - to trust HIM!!
GOD IS FAITHFUL!
SEE U AT THE TOP!
Pastor
Mike
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