People need to know what they can expect from God and what He expects in us. That’s why I wrote “How to Get the Good God Has for You.” Here’s a video explaining more as well as an excerpt you can read. You can purchase it on RevTrev.com or from Expectancy Press Pages From Get the Good Learn More At Expectancy Press Read more »
6 Keys I Have Found to Endure and Overcome
I’ve found 6 keys to endure and overcome. We need to realize and never forget that: It’s always darkest before the dawn. The enemy always rages just before he’s about to be defeated. The Dragon always wants to kill the baby when it’s helpless. Don’t think its peculiar that you need to endure to get the good. Here’s 6 Keys I’ve learned that will help you endure and overcome… 1. To endure fix Your Eyes on Jesus… Hebrews 12:2 (New International [...] Read more »
Can Waiting Be Good?
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Can waiting be “good”? I’m not one to say all we should expect from God is what we want. I know we can’t even get what is promised whenever we decide we want it. I believe God calls something else good and we need to know how to embrace it. What Else is Good? James 1:2-4 NIV Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that [...] Read more »
What Does God Promise When I Obey?
What are the promises when I obey God? I’ve never preached on this portion of Scripture except when I’ve shared this message. It’s a powerful one to consider. Deuteronomy 28:1-13 (NLT) “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God: Your [...] Read more »
Does God Want Us to Have Wealth?
Does God want us to have wealth? We can’t start this discussion without remembering that if we live in Canada or the US, we’re in the top 2% of the world’s wealthiest people. Don’t think that because you don’t have a million dollars you aren’t wealthy. Not a lot of people in the world have a million dollars. What falls out of your pockets in a month is more than many people earn in a month. If you find a [...] Read more »
Does God Want Good For Me?
We need to understand the good God has for us. Is God really good? Is He is a good mood? Let’s examine the life of Christ to see the “good” that His obedience brought Him. Paul tells us that because of Christ’s obedience, He got something good. Philippians 2:5-11 (New International Version) Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made [...] Read more »
4 Ways to Do What is Right
I’ve found 4 ways to help us do what’s right. Here they are: 1. Let the Word teach you what’s right… 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. Proverbs 1:2-4 (New Living Translation) Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help [...] Read more »
9 Benefits for Doing What is Right
What are the benefits of doing what’s right? When I write ad copy for businesses I know to put the benefits before the features. I suppose that’s why I’m listing what I’ve studied in Scripture in this way. So let’s start the discussion on how to do what’s right with the benefits of doing what’s right. Some of these are self evident, and once again I want to stress we have the wrong attitude if we obey just to get the [...] Read more »
Seeking the Lord is More Than Ritual
Seeking the Lord is not a ritual. There’s so much more to seeking the Lord than praying longer, or louder or fasting. Even if we think, “seeking the Lord” means fasting or going through religious ceremonies, God tells us fasting is useless without doing what is right. Isaiah 58:2-11 (NIV) For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken [...] Read more »
How I Can Seek the Lord – 7 ways
How can I seek the Lord? If you’re like me, you might think “seeking the Lord” simply means to “pray longer, pray louder and probably fast”. While Scripture does mention prayer and fasting with the right attitude, it also includes other, possibly surprising ways. 7 Ways to Seek the Lord 1. Call upon God and pray to him Jeremiah 29:12-14a (New International Version) Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. [...] Read more »
Why Seek the Lord – 7 reasons
Why should I seek the Lord? Well, besides the promise that those who seek the Lord will lack no good thing (Psalm 34:10), there are a number of other benefits to following God’s command to seek Him (Hosea 10:12). Much like fearing the Lord, seeking the Lord is of great benefit for us; and like fearing the Lord, we shouldn’t seek the Lord just to get the benefits. Knowing the benefits can motivate us, keep us focused and help us [...] Read more »
Seeking the Lord
Before we look at seeking the Lord, I need to point out something about fearing the Lord. We’re given three conditions for getting the good God has for us. Fear the Lord Seek the Lord Do what’s right And right away we see that part of fearing God is obeying his commandments…doing what’s right. We could make an argument that everything in the list of 16 Ways To Fear the Lord can be summarized with “do what’s right.” I won’t [...] Read more »
16 Ways I Can Fear the Lord
16 Ways I’ve Found to Fear the Lord How can I fear the Lord? Fearing the Lord is not walking around being afraid you’re going to give account of all your past sins at the end of your days. You will do this if you haven’t asked Him to forgive you in this life. But if you are washed, sanctified, and justified – which you are when you have Jesus as Lord of your life (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)- you’re only [...] Read more »
Why Fear God?
Why Fear God? The first condition for getting the good God has for us is for us to “fear God.” So the question is How Can I Fear God? How do we balance perfect love driving out all fear (1 John 4:18) with worshipping God acceptably with all reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:28-29)? How can God not give us the spirit of fear, and yet still tell us to fear Him? What is fearing [...] Read more »
Has God Promised Good to Us?
Has God really promised good to us? The fourth verse of John Newton’s “Amazing Grace” has us singing it so…what does the Bible say? There are two great verses that tell us our Good God wants good for us. I know there are many more, but these two come with the conditions Promises for good O fear the LORD, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; [...] Read more »
How to Get the Good God Has For You
How to get the good God has for you. I know that there are many of us struggling with things in this life. Some issues are because of health. Some are because of finances. Some are relationships that really need miracles to change hearts. These are the areas where hope is tested. I want you to know you can still have hope. I want you to know how to get the good God has for you. The writer of Hebrews [...] Read more »
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