What God spoke to me #1
I am currently reading Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels. Have you ever started reading a book and their was a scripture reference and you got something out of it that really doesn’t go along with the book? Kinda here….
Leviticus 26v3-4, 6
If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. 6 I will give you peace in the land and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear…
In my own life as well as others I have heard people say I cant wait for breakthrough, or “when will i see more people get saved”, “Or when will I be blessed?” I think one of the key answer to this question is the first part of this verse, ” IF YOU FOLLOW MY DECREES AND ARE CAREFUL TO OBEY MY COMMANDS”, Do you spend all your time asking other people to pray for you? Do you sit around and complain that you need a breakthrough? Do you go out and sin all week then bring your butt to church and have a leader pray for you and expect the blessings to just flow? At times, you will face situations where you will need your friends to pray for you and need them to come by your side. However what are YOU doing for your breakthrough, what are you doing that you deserve to see the Rain of God come into your life? Do we receive the blessings of God because we didn’t swear for a week, or we didn’t go out and commit some horrible crime? Well i am no theologian… but I don’t see this bringing the blessings of God ( However this behavior probably wont be going on if your doing it right =) )
I believe as Christians we need to take responsibility for our breakthrough and not ride on the wave of everone else praying. If your riding on the wave and not making any of your own, eventually you will drown. God loves us so much and cant wait to bless us… and its so simple.
That verse goes on to say “I will send rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. 6 I will give you peace in the land and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear… As christians we need to obey God all the time and live like the Word of God tells us to live. Not just on sundays and wednesdays or whenever you have church. When we begin to obey God and live according to the word thats when the blessings will come and the rain of God will come into your life.
I want to end this note with encouraging you to get your breakthrough. You press into God and ask for what you need. I could go to Thomas and have him pray for me and maybe feel a little bit better, but until i get on my knees and in the face of God i will not have my breakthrough. I will not experience the true presence of God unless i ask him for is.
Last note… Living off the breakthrough of someone elses life is like a child borrowing a toy from a friend, eventually he will have to give it back and he will no longer have it… If it were his toy, he would have possession of it and it would be his and his alone and only he would appreciate the true awesomeness of that toy.
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