For if you wander beyond the teaching of Christ, you will leave God behind What is the difference between: Trusting God And trying to manipulate things to happen the way WE want. What is the difference between: Obeying God And reaching the goals WE desire? ANSWER IS: BEING IN THE WILL OF GOD, IT IS NOT SO MUCH THE GOAL BUT HOW WE GET THERE, DOING ALL THAT IS RIGHT IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCE AT ALL COST. THE CHARACTER BUILDING PROCESS IS WHAT MATTERS. Maybe after much struggling we see our goal just out of reach and we get a little to excited forgetting God’s will and do what we want to reach it, Just to lose it all, has this happened to you? “Patience is more than endurance. A saints life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--I cannot stand anymore. God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in Gods hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” ― Oswald Chambers “The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.” ― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest “If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not a little bit of love, but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God. ” ― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest “No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses Gods will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.” ― Oswald Chambers God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, . . . who will go for Us? The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.” ― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest “You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.” ― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest “Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.” ― Oswald Chambers “We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. ” ― Oswald Chambers “There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.” ― Oswald Chambers Matthew 12:18 > “Look at my Servant. See my Chosen One. He is my Beloved, in whom my soul delights. I will put my Spirit upon him, And he will judge the nations. 2 Peter 1:2-4 > Do you want more and more of God’s kindness and peace? Then learn to know him better and better. 3 For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! 4 And by that same mighty power he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us, and to give us his own character. 2 John 1:7-9 > Watch out for the false leaders—and there are many of them around—who don’t believe that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human being with a body like ours. Such people are against the truth and against Christ. 8 Beware of being like them and losing the prize that you and I have been working so hard to get. See to it that you win your full reward from the Lord. 9 For if you wander beyond the teaching of Christ, you will leave God behind; while if you are loyal to Christ’s teachings, you will have God too. Then you will have both the Father and the Son. Ephesians 4:15-16 > Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times—speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly[a]—and so become more and more in every way like Christ who is the Head of his body, the Church. Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly, and each part in its own special way helps the other parts, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. James 1:2-4 > Dear brothers, is your life full of difficulties and temptations? Then be happy, 3 for when the way is rough, your patience has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, and don’t try to squirm out of your problems. For when your patience is finally in full bloom, then you will be ready for anything, strong in character, full and complete. Hebrews 12:7-11 > Let God train you, for he is doing what any loving father does for his children. Whoever heard of a son who was never corrected? 8 If God doesn’t punish you when you need it, as other fathers punish their sons, then it means that you aren’t really God’s son at all—that you don’t really belong in his family. 9 Since we respect our fathers here on earth, though they punish us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to God’s training so that we can begin really to live? 10 Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years, doing the best for us that they knew how, but God’s correction is always right and for our best good, that we may share his holiness. 11 Being punished isn’t enjoyable while it is happening—it hurts! But afterwards we can see the result, a quiet growth in grace and character.
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