Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

HOW GOD LEADS TODAY - bibleladyjunebug


 HOW GOD LEADS TODAY 

    bibleladyjunebug 

                 

                              Learning How to Walk With God
                                                        

                 Doing God's will should be our primary concern.

We should depend upon divine direction
 for everything we do.

  Proverbs 16.3
 COMMIT THY WAY
UNTO THE LORD, 
AND
THY THOUGHTS 
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED.

             The leading of the Lord is the guidance that the 
         Holy Spirit gives those He controls to applying the 
          Word of God to the circumstances of life.
                Romans. 6.14    For as many as are led 
                 by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

                        Psalm 119.105   Thy word is a lamp unto 
                   my feet, and a light unto my path.  

         The Bible must interpret our experience 
               instead of our experience interpreting the 
                     Bible.      

       



   Example:   Marriage.    
                 1 Cor. 7.39   The wife is bound by the law
                 as long as her husband liveth, but if her 
                   husband is dead, she is at liberty to be 
                    married to whom she will; only in the 
                    Lord. 
                 Matthew 19.4 - 6.  The Pharisees came 
                  unto Jesus, tempting  him, and saying, 
                   Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife 
                      for every cause?   And he answered and 
                    said,  Have ye not read, that he which 
                   made them in the beginning, made them
                    male and female?   And said, For this 
                    cause shall a man leave his father and 
                     his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, 
                      and they shall be one flesh. Wherefore 
                     they are no more twain, but one flesh, 
                     What therefore God hath joined together, 
                       let not man put asunder." 

                   In verse 16, the disciples say unto him, 
                      if the case be so with his wife, it is not 
                        good to marry.    Jesus answers in 
                      verse 11 and 12 " All men cannot receive
                        this saying, save they to whom it is given.
                         For there are sone eunichs which were 
                         so born from their mother's wombs, 
                           and some eunuchs were mad eunuchs 
                           of men;   and there be eunuchs which 
                           have mad themselves to be eunuchs for 
                          the kingdom of heaven's sake.  He that 
                           is able to receive it, let him receive it.

                 When asking God about marriage, we must 
                 consider what Scripture teaches about it, 
                  We cannot expect God to bless us unless we 
                  are obeying His Word on the matter of 
                  marrying.    
                 A major truth the Bible teaches is that 
                     we cannot expect God to bless us if we 
                     are choosing to go against what His word 
                        teaches.

                    In times past, God spoke to people and 
                    directed them.    Joseph with his dreams, kept 
                      faithful in being sold into Egypt, being a 
                      slave in Potiphor's house, and imprisoned,
                      he walked with God.   He did not get bitter, 
                       but trusted God.  
                     Moses with God as God spoke to him, 
                     by getting his attention with a Burning 
                   Bush that did not consume.   God gave Moses 
                    direct command to lead out the people from 
                    Egypt.     Exodus chapter 3.   

                  God sometimes used other ways to lead  
                   people.   When God led the people in the 
                   wilderness, he led them with a Pillar
                    of cloud by day and a cloud by night. 
                  They knew as long as the Pillar hovered 
                   still - they were also to be still.   When the 
                  Cloud moved - they were also to move. 

                   Hebrews 1.1 - 3
                    "God, who at sundry times, and in divers 
                    manners, spake in time past unto the 
                     fathers by the prophets, 
                    Hath in these last days spoken unto us by 
                    His Son, whom He hath appointed heir 
                    of all things, by whom also he made the 
                      worlds, who being the brightness of His 
                   glory, and the express image of His person, 
                    and upholding all things by the word of 
                     his power, when h himself had purged 
                      our sins, sat down on the right hand of 
                      the majesty on high." 

                 Today we are led on the basis of what 
                            God's Word says.

                  Romans 8.14   As many as are led by 
                   the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 

                     John 14.26   Jesus promised "but 
                    the Comforter, which is the Holy  Ghost, 
                    whom the Father will send in my name; 
                      He shall teach you all things, and 
                     bring all things to your remembrance, 
                      whatsoever I have said to you.

                  Think of it !  
                      Jesus was telling them that after He 
                 was taken, crucified, buried, and rise again,
                    the Holy Ghost (the Holy Spirit) would 
                  be sent by the Father to dwell in them, and 
                   lead and teach them, given His words to 
                   them and never leave them.
                     Today we have the words of the Gospels
                 written for us, the word of the Epistles - the 
                  letters the Apostles' wrote, and the entire 
                  books of the New Testament were completed
                  before the First Century was finished. 
                        Ephesians 5.16  tells us "pray without 
                  ceasing."   
                          As you read God's Word - ask God 
                 to show you His Will through His Word.

                           God will never lead us to do 
                        anything that His Word teaches is 
                       sinful, or wrong.    
                         God will never lead us to do 
                       anything contrary to the express 
                       stated written Word.      

                         When the Word of God speaks, 
                         it means what it says, 
                                  it says what it means, 
                            And if we properly take in it 
                         the context - we will understand 
                            it.  

                          The Holy Ghost will never lead us 
                        except in harmony with the Scriptures. 

                           Isaiah 55.8   For my thoughts are 
                           not your thoughts; neither are your 
                          ways my ways, saith the LORD.   


                  THINGS WE ARE TO DO.   
                              John 14.15 - 16  
                           If you love me, keep my commandments,
                           And I will pray the Father, and He shall give
                           you another Comforter, that he may abide 
                             with you for ever.  

                           John 13.33,34   A new commandment I 
                             give unto you, that ye love one another, 
                              as I have loved you, that ye also love 
                               one another.  By this shall all men 
                               know ye are my disciples, if ye have 
                              love one to another.

                            Romans 12. 1   I beseech you, therefore, 
                            brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
                           present your bodies a living sacrifice, 
                           holy, acceptable unto God, which is your 
                           reasonable service.   

                            Ephesians 5.16   And be not drunk 
                            with wine, wherein is excess, but be 
                             filled with the Spirit.   

                            Hebrews 10.25   Not forsaking the 
                             assembling of yourselves together, 
                              as the manner of some is, but 
                             exhorting one another to provoke 
                             unto love and to good works. 

                             
                  THINGS WE ARE NOT TO DO   
                              We are to continue being identified         
                                 with believers in a local church - 
                                  A church is not the building but 
                               the people - and to assemble where 
                                two or three are gathered in my 
                               name, there Jesus will be with us 
                               as meet, pray, and worship. As 
                            God permits we are to keep on  
                             meeting.

                           Hebrews 10.25  "Forsake not the 
                         asseblying of yourselves together, as the 
                        manner of some is, but exhorting one 
                         another to provoke unto love and 
                          to good works.  

                             So do not be discouraged.
                         When circumstances are difficult, 
                        God wants us to trust Him in it, being 
                       patient.  

                              Ephesians 4.25 and 28  
                            Wherefore putting away lying, speak
                       every man truth with his neighbour, for we 
                      are members one of another;   Let him that 
                        stole, steal no more: but rather let him 
                          labour, working with his hands the thing 
                         which is good, that he may have to give 
                         to him that needeth.  

                      Another thing we must not do :   
                          Do not be conformed to this world.
                         Romans 12.2   And be not conformed 
                          to this world: but be ye transformed 
                         by the renewing of your mind, that ye 
                        may prove what is that good and acceptable
                         and perfect will of God.  

                        God's will is seen in His Principles 
                            laid down for us in His Word. 

                           Colossians 4.5  Walk in wisdom towards 
                                those that are without, redeeming the 
                               time.
                             Walk in wisdom. 
                             Proverbs 1.23  Turn ye at my reproof; behold, I                               will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make 
                           known my words unto you.   
                             
                             Run the Race  in patience  
                                Hebrews 12.1     Wherefore seeing we 
                          are compassed about with so great a cloud
                           of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, 
                           and the sin which doth so easily beset 
                            us, and let us run with patience the race
                           that is set before us.   

                           Be Totally Committed  
                              I Cor. 10.31  Whether therefore ye 
                            eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do 
                           all to the glory of God.   

                             Count Yourself as Alive to God 
                             Romans 6.11  Reckon ye also yourselves
                             to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive 
                             unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

                            Trust the mystery of God 
                               and of the Father            
                               and of Christ, 
                                  for all my guidance by
                              hiding in the truths of His Word.  

                          Colossians 2.3  IN WHOM ARE HID
                           ALL THE TREASURES OF WISDOM 
                             AND KNOWLEDGE.    
                       
                    When God's Word   
                         we obey in what we DO know, 
      
                        Often God then shows us 
                             our Next step.   

                 
                             God's Great Commission 
                            is to everyone.   It is the   
                              Command of Christ to
                                the Church.   This is why
                               Believers need each other, 
                               for we are to GO.                  

                               All power is given unto me 
                               in heaven and in earth; Go
                               ye, therefore, and teach all 
                             nations, baptizing them in 
                              the name of the Father, and of 
                              the Son and of the Holy Ghost,
                               teaching them to observe all 
                              things that I have commanded
                                you, and, lo, I am with you
                              alway, even unto the end of 
                                the world. Amen.     
           
                         Wisdom and guidance will only 
                          come as we obey His Word, His will
                           let His Spirit lead us day by day, 
                            all the way.   
                          Until He comes to TAKE US HOME 
                           we are to be ready to serve, ready 
                           to cheerfully endure, and to readily
                            share the Gospel with whosoever 
                            will hear.   

                      Colossians 3.15  
                    And let the peace of God rule in your 
                      hearts, to the which also ye are 
                     called in one body, and be ye 
                       thankful.    

                                        Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord 

                                   by B. Ramsell Ramsey
                                   (1849 - 1923)  
                Teach me thy way, O Lord, 
                 Teach my thy way. 
                   Thy guiding grace afford, 
                     Teach me thy way.
                         Help me to walk aright, 
                   More by faith, less by sight; 
                  Lead me with heav'nly light, 
                         Teach me thy way. 

                When I am sad at heart, 
                     Teach me thy way; 
                  When earthly joys depart, 
                       Teach me thy way; 
                             In hours of loneliness,
                      In times of deep distress, 
                    Teach me thy way. 

 When doubts and fears arise,
Teach me thy way; 
When storms oerspread the skies,
teach me thy way...
Shine through the cloud and rain, 
Thru sorrow, toil, and pain
Make thou my pathway plain,
Teach me thy way.

Long as my life shall last, 
Teach me thy way;
Where'er my lot is cast, 
Teach me thy way...
Until the race is run, 
Until the Journey's done,
Until the Crown is won,
Teach me thy way.  


II TIMOTHY 3.16
And without controversy 
great is the mystery 
of godliness: God was 
manifest in the flesh;
justified in the Spirit; 
seen of angels; 
preached unto
the Gentiles;
believed on in the world;
and received up 
into glory.

Acts 4.12
Neither is there salvation 
in any other: for there is 
none other name 
under heaven
given among men
 whereby we must 
be saved.