Hi Line Ministries: Godly wisdom for daily living!

Patience doesn't surrender to circumstances or succumb come under trial. Patience is courage under fire.  Patience answers every doubt and fear with the assurance of God's Word.

As a Born-Again Believer, you have residing inside of you Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. The Bible is very specific about what the Holy Spirit will do for us as believers.

Hebrews 6:12 "that you do not become lazy but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises."

The word patience used in this verse is only used one other time in the New Testament in James 5:10 and it means "to be long-tempered."

One of the most important steps that you can take in allowing God to speak to you is that you believe, have faith, that God wants to speak to you!

James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.  The body needs the spirit and the spirit needs the body.  Faith needs works (the corresponding actions) and works needs faith.     

God loves us so much that He will try to communicate with us in any way we will let Him; With Moses it was a burning bush, with Jonah it was a big fish, with Balaam it was his donkey.  But we can unknowingly shut God out when we don't believe He wants to talk to us.

Faith & its cooperating forces: today "works"

If you get your opinion about God strictly from reading the Old Testament your opinion will not be one that invites you into a close relationship with Him.

I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, “Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I’ll handle the works department.” Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove. (James 2:18 MSG) 

It may seem like James is contradicting Paul's teaching on grace which we see in Romans and Galatians, but this is not true. Paul and James are not fighting each other, they are fighting two different enemies.

No matter what our occupation or status is in life, God is desirous to talk with us, to give us direction and counsel.  What are some of the different ways God speaks to us; when I do hear something how can I know whether it's of God or not?