PERILOUS TIMES
Jeremiah 29:11 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
With obedience to the Lord, with a sincere attempt to follow Gods ways and his words, His thoughts toward us are always thoughts of peace, not of evil.
God is always up to something good, I am sure we would all agree on that, especially if you are a believer. Sometimes it is not easy to believe, this past year has proven that.
We always want to believe that God is up to something good. With what is going on in the news these days, telling us of impending economic disaster it can be so hard to believe. If someone we love gets cancer or some other awful disease it is hard to have more faith than fear.
In our natural way of thinking we want to believe it is God doing this stuff, After all the news can’t be all wrong.
When we base our lives on the worldly news our efforts fail. We fail to see what we are hoping for from God, we start to feel afraid and those feelings will lead us into despair and all hope vanishes.
This leads us to take matters into our own hands instead of trusting God to make a way for us. We jump over into the natural, worldly way of thinking.
The results of this will only leave us physically and emotionally drained, leaving us worse off than we were before we started.
Think about this, let it sink into your heart. I want to let you know that it is okay, God has got this handled and we have all been there.
It is important to recognize who is behind the worldly things that is happening in our world today. It is the strategy of our enemy, the devil, deceiving people into thinking it is okay to kill, steal and destroy.
By distracting and deceiving us with a powerful lie, telling us God is withholding something good from us. Our efforts and striving can not bring freedom and victory to our lives, it has been and always will be the grace of God that brings the victory.
Satan has pointed to economic setbacks and overwhelming fear as proof. He has used this strategy for thousands of years and is still using it very well to influence people’s minds.
There is a way to walk in victory and freedom from the lies of the enemy. These lies are a spirit of pride, a spirit that says, I know better than God. It is deceptive and will work its way into your thinking, often without you realizing what is happening.
1 Corinthians 15:10 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
By His grace concerns the favor or mercy of God.
John 1:17 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
It will always be the grace of God that brings good things into our lives, not our own efforts.
God is still God and He is very well caught up on everything that is going on in this world, he knows who is behind it and what the outcome will be.
However, it is not what the government wants it is about Gods plan for all of us. The bottom line is the way it turns out in the end. Here is what happens to people that think they are smarter than God and do things the way they want.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
This is because they reject Christ Jesus and the cross. If one turns away from the truth, God will send them a strong delusion. Delusion means a misleading of the mind.
That is what is wrong with the world today, our enemy the devil who is called Satan has caused a great delusion in our government. It is so deep that it is totally out of control.
Hebrews 6:18-19 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
The horror of being in this world without hope and being in this world without God. Hope is the anchor of the soul, with hope springing forth from the Word of God.
Hope is sure and steadfast. It is set before us in the gospel and Gods promises. It is filled with faith and able to enter the holiest of holies, we shall settle in heaven forever.
To live in this hope is a loving way without a sin consciousness. Everything you want is in the word. When the worlds banks are empty, God still has plenty for us. Will you know how to receive it from Him?
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