There is a way that seems to right to us, it seems right but it’s not and it leads to destruction. We need to learn God’s will and give Him opportunity to bring His purposes to completion. We have to take the word God sends and mix it with faith, wait on Him and be of good courage. God doesn’t need our help; He needs our obedience and submission to His plans. He is both willing and able to bring to pass what He has purposed, He will in fact complete the work He starts in our lives.

The Bible shows us that our need of help is normal, it's by design of God, as aspect of human life and not failure. God is our ultimate helper and our asking for His help is a show of humility. Also, by design of God we can co-labor with God, but God does not need our help, in the way we need His, to bring to pass the things He desires, He is not like us, yet we are like Him. Whenever we determine to help God bring about what He has already purposed we get in the flesh and trouble follows.

God Himself is holy and He calls us to be holy. God is faithful and He calls us to likewise be faithful. We are to walk in the light as He is in the light, then we can have fellowship with Him and other saints. He calls us to this manner of living even when we are without strength to perform it, why; because He gives us grace, divine enablement. God is sovereign, His is a covenant keeper, and by His providence He establishes for us a pattern of faith and patience, even in a challenging environment that He expects us to follow by the power He makes available by His Spirit.

No matter where we are, what we’re up against, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all we can conceive; but it is according to His power that works in us. The power of God that works in believers is the immeasurable, active energy of Holy Spirit. It’s not any human effort, but rather divine power which enables us to desire and to act according to God’s purpose and to live out our faith, overcoming all obstacles and walk in victory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart all the good things God has in store for those who believe, trust, and obey Him.

When we are willing and obedient God is able to make all grace abound toward us and He can even make our enemies live a peace with us. But, we must commit our way to Him, trust in Him and live a life totally committed to Him. Others will be observing, make the choice to walk upright, let your words be seasoned with grace and guard your testimony by speaking truth. God will watch over you to insure what He has purposed for you comes to fruition.

God works sovereignly in all things for our good, according to His purposes. God prepares us, He prepares our place, and He prepares people to be receptive of us; but He does it all for His glory and the fulfillment of His purposes so that His will can be accomplished. He pulls one down and sets up another as He moves in time to complete the work He has started, all the while we are navigating our lives. Therefore, it is important that we lean not to our own understanding but rather, trust in Him with our whole heart and acknowledge Him in all our ways and then allow Him to direct us along the path He has ordained.

The only thing I need I already have. The fullness of His mercy in my hand (4Him). Let me explain it to you, hopefully in words you will be able to understand.

We learned earlier that God has spoken and yet speaks to mankind, He is persistent is His efforts to guide His people. He has used prophets, visions, similes, allegories, metaphors, hypo catastasis, types and analogies (see Hos. 12:10). In Job Elihu said that He speaks once, twice and men do not perceive, Peter said that some of us are willingly ignorant. The truth is we can be rebellious and disobedient, not due to ignorance, but through willful defiance. But God remains committed to revealing truth through the diverse methods and He seeks to prompt repentance, while warning that ignoring the warnings will lead to accountability. Today’s lesson seeks to reveal truth given in a type.

Grief is a natural part of life, but as Christians we are not to grieve as if we don’t have a future hope. Likewise, death is a natural part of life, but if we die in Christ our future is secure. While we live we are to operate in integrity, be honest and just in our transactions, make plans to leave an inheritance for those who come after us, but the greatest legacy we can leave is a godly hope; knowing that God will fulfill every promise made and those we leave behind will lay hold to it if they walk worthy of their call in Christ Jesus.

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