All throughout the book of Hebrews you see and hear about faith. How Abraham was faithful and Noah..the list goes on. The thing we lack today as a generation is faithfulness. We are unable to even comprehend that God is able to do impossible, to meet the need, or to keep His promises.
After an awesome camp meeting God has sent a struggle my way to test my faith in Him. To test if I will hold on to the promise He gave me and the dreams He has showed me. I believe I have received a word that you must be faithful to your FIRST love so that you can receive your SECOND love.
In the story of Abraham and Sarah we see that they are unable to have children. Something that Sarah longed after and wanted so badly. She was desperate to receive her second love and her husband stood by her side through this struggle. God one day told Abraham that his wife, Sarah, would be with child. Sarah doubted this because she was at an old age. She was about 90 yrs old and that was completely unheard of. She was barren and 90...she couldnt have children! But God stepped in and proved the miraculous! Abraham and Sarah had to have faith in God, their FIRST love, that they would recieve their SECOND love, which was to have a child.
We look at the story of Moses. When he came to the age of realization of who he was and how Egypt had the people of Israel in captivity. He didn't agree what was going on! He did not think it was right to hold the people of Israel as slaves. God told him that he would lead the people out of Egypt. Moses doubted that he could BUT he listened to his first love. After many tries and plagues the people of Israel finally were free! Moses had to be faithful to his FIRST love to receive his SECOND love, which was seeing the people of Israel free from Egypt.
There are plenty of other stories that I could go into. My point is that we need to be faithful to our first love to receive out second. Whether its wanting to have a child, you need to be faithful to the FIRST receive the SECOND. If you love a person and know your meant to be, you need to be faithful to the FIRST ,God, to recieve the second.
Whatever the situation is we are always going to have some kind of doubt arise. We may think its not gonna happen or how could God put this together?? BUT if you rely on HIM and put your FAITH in Him, you will recieve your second love. Hold on to the promises He gave, the dreams He gave, and the people He put in your life. He WILL put it together and do what YOU think is the impossible.
Romans 4:20-21
20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
God Bless and keep the faith!
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Forgettin Where We Came From
Alright, let's get right into this!
Last month I did a study on the book of Judges and it was fascinating to me! God has so much mercy and grace upon us! From back then even until now!
Within the first chapters of the book of Judges you see how much turmoil Israel got themselves into. They went through a numerous amount of kings! Every time they had a king they did good and then when they lost that king, for one reason or another, they went back to their old ways. It was as if they forgot where they came from.
God even tells Israel that if you do this then I will deliver these people into your hands. They did not listen, they forgot who their King was.
Many times today we often forget who our King is. We forget where he brought us from and we forget who we use to be. We do good for a while and then we jump right back on that fence and play with the things of this world.
We need to realize who we were and who are ARE now. We need to remember that not by our power but by God's GRACE! It says in the Bible that when you know the truth and go back to the world, its like a dog going back to its vomit.
God has done so much for us..but are we returning the favor? Are we truly giving our all to God? Israel had what they thought should be done, or what they should be doing but God had a different plan. Maybe we think we should be doing this or that and maybe God is standing there saying thats not MY will.
We need not to forget where we came from and who is our King!
God Bless,
Becca
Last month I did a study on the book of Judges and it was fascinating to me! God has so much mercy and grace upon us! From back then even until now!
Within the first chapters of the book of Judges you see how much turmoil Israel got themselves into. They went through a numerous amount of kings! Every time they had a king they did good and then when they lost that king, for one reason or another, they went back to their old ways. It was as if they forgot where they came from.
God even tells Israel that if you do this then I will deliver these people into your hands. They did not listen, they forgot who their King was.
Many times today we often forget who our King is. We forget where he brought us from and we forget who we use to be. We do good for a while and then we jump right back on that fence and play with the things of this world.
We need to realize who we were and who are ARE now. We need to remember that not by our power but by God's GRACE! It says in the Bible that when you know the truth and go back to the world, its like a dog going back to its vomit.
God has done so much for us..but are we returning the favor? Are we truly giving our all to God? Israel had what they thought should be done, or what they should be doing but God had a different plan. Maybe we think we should be doing this or that and maybe God is standing there saying thats not MY will.
We need not to forget where we came from and who is our King!
God Bless,
Becca
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Are you in deep or are you laying on the surface?
Yet another word and yet another blog.
This is something that has been on my heart lately. Recently some things have happened and I have seen friends and others slip away from God. This has caused me to wonder are we in deep or are we just laying on the surface?
Many times we as young people can get caught up in the "social" part of church. We have friends who go there and we base our goings on theirs. We don't go deep enough in this, we just lay on the surface. We as young people need to find a love for God. A TRUE genuine love. We need not to look at this as a game or a social club. Ask yourself, if my friends all quit church..would I still be here? Maybe you and God need to evaluate that.
I was always taught that if you live for God hard, it's gonna be easy and if you live for God easy, its gonna be hard. Remember, God never said it would be easy..we shall be persecuted for His name sake. People will hate us because of who we are. Are we in deep enough to handle that? Are we in deep enough to resist this world and say "I am standing my ground and I shall not be moved!" Our love for God should trump all. This isn't just a nursery school game...this is a heaven or hell issue. It is the last days and we need to step up as christians and grow and PUSH deeper into this walk with God.
If you want a new years "resolution" make it that you go deeper than EVER before. That you LOVE God more than you EVER have. That you make this truth your passion and your desire and your stable ground. If we continue to lay on the surface eventually we are gonna dry out. We need to keep ourselves drenched in the word of God! We need the spiritual waters to be rising every day. We need to go DEEPER.
So this year when you ask yourself "what is my goal?" are you going to go deeper or just lay on the surface?
Becca
This is something that has been on my heart lately. Recently some things have happened and I have seen friends and others slip away from God. This has caused me to wonder are we in deep or are we just laying on the surface?
Many times we as young people can get caught up in the "social" part of church. We have friends who go there and we base our goings on theirs. We don't go deep enough in this, we just lay on the surface. We as young people need to find a love for God. A TRUE genuine love. We need not to look at this as a game or a social club. Ask yourself, if my friends all quit church..would I still be here? Maybe you and God need to evaluate that.
I was always taught that if you live for God hard, it's gonna be easy and if you live for God easy, its gonna be hard. Remember, God never said it would be easy..we shall be persecuted for His name sake. People will hate us because of who we are. Are we in deep enough to handle that? Are we in deep enough to resist this world and say "I am standing my ground and I shall not be moved!" Our love for God should trump all. This isn't just a nursery school game...this is a heaven or hell issue. It is the last days and we need to step up as christians and grow and PUSH deeper into this walk with God.
If you want a new years "resolution" make it that you go deeper than EVER before. That you LOVE God more than you EVER have. That you make this truth your passion and your desire and your stable ground. If we continue to lay on the surface eventually we are gonna dry out. We need to keep ourselves drenched in the word of God! We need the spiritual waters to be rising every day. We need to go DEEPER.
So this year when you ask yourself "what is my goal?" are you going to go deeper or just lay on the surface?
Becca
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