When you look at Scripture and see the overlap of what Fearing the Lord is, what Seeking the Lord is and what doing what’s right is, you have a key for all three….Obedience. When you seek God you obey God. When you fear God you obey God. When you do what’s right you obey God. I’m boiling it down to its essentials here and it’s all saying the same thing. God will not honor sin. Because temptation needs to look [...] Read more »
How to Steward Your Destiny Point 2 – Look to What You Have In Your Nature
We’re continuing our series on How to Steward Your Destiny. I’ve already written about how to seek wise counsel - that’s something I’ve been doing the last couple of weeks as I’m seeking God for timing of prophetic answers – in this post we’ll talk about the principle of looking to what you have in your nature. I’m assuming you have a prophetic word, but what if you don’t? It doesn’t mean God isn’t interested in your destiny. It may simply mean [...] 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
