Thought of the Day: When you surrender to the Spirit of God, your will learn more about God and Christ in a week , than what you would have learned in a lifetime , without the Spirit of God in your heart.
Matthew 6:5-15
“This , then is how you should pray: “‘ Our Father in Heaven, hollowed be your name, (Matt 6:9)
We are all familiar with God’s prayer. It was given to the disciples by Christ as a model on how we must pray to God. Our Father in Heaven indicates not only that God is Majestic and Holy, but that He is also loving and personal.
When Christ came to earth a lot of the then Jewish people believed that he was going to save them from the Romans. But Christ did more than that He saved us from eternal hell, and gave us the kingdom of God.
I often find myself searching for God, I want to know more and learn more about Him, but sometimes it feels like i am hitting a brick wall, na matter what i feel far from God and completely lost in His word and learning.
God gave us the Holy spirit to be with us and guide us here on earth while He is preparing heaven for us. The Holy spirit will only work within us if we allow Him too. It is up to me and you to open our hearts for Gods spirit and to allow Him to walk with us. To be with us and guide us in Gods ways.
If you feel lost, and at a dead end in you spiritual lives, ask God to open your heart for His spirit. You will be a new person.
Dear Spirit of God, I surrender to you, please be my Guide for the rest of my life.
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Thought of the day : ” Faith makes all things possible….. love make all things easy”
Mark 11:22-23
22 ” Have faith in God ” Jesus answered. 23″ I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain,’ Go throw yourself in the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says would happen, it will be done for him.
We often pray to God to help us, and the minute we finished our prayers we get up and start worrying about it or trying to advice a plan to get out of the situation. We so often say that our prayers are not answered, but have you ever just thought for a moment why that is.?
In this scripture Jesus is teaching us that prayers that move mountains, are those prayers done in true faith. These prayers are in Honor of God and the fruitfulness of his kingdom. Jesus knew that it seemed impossible to us to move mountains, that is why he use this example. To teach us that everything is possible for God. Our prayer will be answered by God, but not because of our positive mental attitude. No God will answer our prayers if they are done in unconditional faith. Faith that comes from your heart, deep down in your soul.
God will answer our prayer if they are unselfish and to His honor, not those extremely selfish urges that we so often have or because we need to keep up with the rest of the world.When we pray we must have faith in God. Not faith in the object of our request. Jesus teaches us that everything is possible, but that it is not in our will, but in the will of God. Our prayers are often motivated by our own desires and interests. It is not wrong to bring your desires to God and ask Him to help you, but Gods will must always be above ours.
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Today was one of those days where everything I planned just did not happen, but yet I am grateful because everything happens for the best of all. I wanted to go cycling but had to stay at home because of my son, who was very sick. Later I took him to the doctor who then wanted to admit him in to the hospital because of dehydration. I was heart broken. She told me to take him home get his stuff together and return in half an hour’s time. On my way home I said a little prayer that some how he can please stay at home and not have to go. I received my miracle and my son is at home, and not in hospital.
This whole experienced made me realize how Abraham must have felt when God asked him to sacrifice his only son Isaac to God. For so long Abraham and his wife could not have children and then one day God promised Abraham that he will bless him with a great offspring. God gave Isaac to Sarah and Abraham, because that was Abraham’s greatest wish in life to have a son, and yet God then asked of Abraham to sacrifice that child to Him.
Being a parent I can just imagine what Abraham must have thought, and how he felt. I was very upset just thinking of my son having to go to hospital and not having him around for the night. Abraham had to sacrifice his son. But instead of fighting or arguing with God, Abraham obeyed. He packed the donkey and took his son and they left. Abraham was willing to give his most valuable possession to God. When Isaac asked his father what they were going to sacrifice to God Abraham replied that God will supply.
We so often ask God to help us when we are in need, but are we willing to give back to God for all the blessing we receive on a daily basis. We so often think that being religious and serving God is lame. We blame time for the fact that we go to bed without reading our Bible or saying a prayer. We hardly have enough time for ourselves or our family let alone serving God on a daily basis. My friend laughs at me when I talk about going to church. Yet this is all God asks from us.
We get upset when our prayers are not answered yet we are not willing to give God the glory and time He deserves in our lives. God blessed Abraham with a great offspring because he was always on his post ready to serve God.
What are you willing to give God today?
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Two Years ago Rhonda Byrne had the whole world talking with the launch of her book The Secret. In this book she explains how you and I can use the Law of Attraction to create the lives we all so badly want. All we must do is believe.
Her book awakened a new spiritual urge amongst the human race. Everybody admitted that there is a higher power. Someone greater than ourselves. We just have to ask and truly believe and everything we desire will come into our lives. I am sure a lot of us have tried and tested this theory. For some it was a success and maybe for others it turned out to be not all we expected it to be. Is it because we failed in our beliefs?
What is belief? According to the dictionary to believe is to know that something is true. I like to replace “believe” with the word faith. Because if you have faith you don’t have to see something before you believe it. Faith is a deep inner feeling that one can not really describe.
Faith is not only about our religious beliefs, although we like to link faith with religion, it has an impact on our everyday life. The problem is however that most of us do not have true faith in God anymore. We so often pray for something to happen in our lives and upon amen we rely on ourselves to solve the problem instead of waiting for a reply from God.
We so often hear people say miracles do not happen anymore like they used to. Is this not maybe because we rely so much on our own abilities that we forget about the power of God and his abilities.
It is hard to believe or have faith in a God that we cannot see. Yet God does reveal Himself to us every day. I know that science has got an explanation for everything that goes on in life, but if we look deeper and we actually start looking through the eyes of true faith we will soon realize that everything around us is proof that God exists even science. For God created everything that science is discovering today.
I just think that we are blind to God in this modern day and age. We are so reliant upon ourselves, and our own abilities to create and manifest that we don’t see eye to eye with God. One thing is sure that there is an urge for deeper spirituality in this modern time we live in. Maybe we must stop looking for rational explanations and just start believing in the greatness of God around us.
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We often confuse belief with religion or connect it to some sort of religious act, but that is not belief at all. I see belief as the ability to achieve great things in your life by having faith and trust in God and the abilities you were born with. None of us are born with limitations. We grow into them. For some reason our minds trick us in to believing that we are not capable of doing certain things. It is simply a trick the mind plays.
Have you ever noticed that when we grow up we often maintain the same type of lifestyle our parents had. A lot of the time when you look at people and you look at the way they live you will see that their parents had the same lifestyle. I know a lady whose parents got divorced when she was young. She is now also divorced and she lives exactly the same type of life her mother had after she got divorced. It is almost like this big cycle is repeating itself over and over again.
Our lives reflect the things we believe. We often go to university because our parents believed that in order for us to be able to get a good job we must study hard and go to university. Entrepreneurship and creativity was never really supported. We all follow this road and find ourselves frustrated in the work we do, just because we believe that one cannot get a good job if you are not educated. I take myself as an example. I hated studying, I loved nature and the outdoors and I am extremely creative, but instead of supporting my creativity and my love for drama and acting I was always told that one cannot make a decent living from that. There are only a few lucky ones and I am definitely not on that short list. So what did I do, I went and studied law. I was frustrated and nothing in my life seemed to have worked out, I got rebellious, annoyed and frustrated, because I was not aligned with my purpose in life. I had great talents for the entertainment industry but I never took the opportunity to use it, because of certain beliefs I shared with my parents. I was living my life in the wrong direction.
It was only when I met my husband that with his help and the grace of God that I found the courage to explore and change my beliefs. Today I am living the life I always dreamed of. I am not making a lot of money, but I am living my dream. This all happened because I realised that for me to find my purpose I must follow my dreams, even if that meant that I had to change my beliefs.
We all believe that we are here on earth to serve a certain purpose, however a lot of us wonder what that purpose is. This however is not a question that goes unanswered; the answer lies in the creation. God created us in his own image, for fellowship with Him.
That is why we are here on earth, and that is our purpose. God created us so that he could spend time with us, and visa verse. Throughout the Bible there is proof that God is involved in the lives of man. He interacted with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and he sent Jesus to earth to prove His love for us. Man is created with a body, a soul, a spirit, a mind and a free will to make decisions for or against God. God does not force us to believe in him or his existence it is a free choice that He gave us.
I know that it is very hard to believe especially because we cannot see God or that is what we think. I admit I grew up in a Christian home but this did not mean that I knew God. I know of God but I don’t necessarily know God personally. It was only when I made the deliberate decision to learn more about God that my eyes opened and I started seeing God in everything around me.
Having faith is seeing God in everything even in the disappointments that cross our roads to prepare us for bigger and better things.
Faith in God is spreading your wings and trusting that the wind will be there to carry you.
Faith In God has no limitations.
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