QUOTE (Neal @ Jul 5 2008, 02:21 AM)

QUOTE (snorch @ Jul 5 2008, 01:12 AM)

You have no ears to hear. No one said you could become a Christian. But you are not happy and you are a liar.
God rewards those who are faithful. Throughout your life God will seek to grow you in your faith. He will continually bring you to times when you must trust Him. He will lead you into situations that require a "little" faith, and if you are faithful, He will then take you into situations that require even greater trust in Him. Each time you are able to trust God at a higher level, God will reveal more of Himself to you. Your faith and experiencing God are directly linked.
The best way to tell if you are prepared for a greater revelation of God is to see how faithful you have been with what God has given you. This is a foundational principle in God's relationships with us: If you have been faithful with the little He has given you, you are ready to be entrusted with more. If you failed to trust God with the little He gave you, He will not trust you with more. God will not lead you beyond your present level of trust and obedience to Him. He will return you to your area of unfaithfulness until you are prepared to trust Him. The children of Israel were unwilling to trust God to lead them into the Promised Land, and their generation never again was able to move forward with Him.
You stand at an exciting new door of opportunity to know God more intimately every time you believe Him. Every step of faith leads you to a deeper relationship of faith with Him. It is an open invitation to know God more intimately.
Neal :
I enjoyed this post of yours.
This excerpt of yours, matches the following @, my blog:
He will then take you into situations that require even greater trust in Him. Each time you are able to trust God at a higher level, God will reveal more of Himself to you. Your faith and experiencing God are directly linked.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
What is revealed is ours, the secret's are God's
Things revealed belong to us, the secret things belong to the Lord
article by : Betty C. Clark
http://holisticwarrior.blogspot.com/2006/0...ic-warrior.html"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29).
My belief is, that many people wonder why some things stay a
mystery in life. And sometimes miraculous events happen at the
same time, that death steals life's promises.
Have you ever wondered about the profound events of your life,
seeming to open doors to the largest challenges ?
Or maybe, the largest challenges open the doors of transformation,
for the profound events ?
Do good and bad events run a obstacle course race, side-by-side ?
A beautiful scripture was revealed to me, that answers all the
above questions : ( I love repeating it . . . )
"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29).
What is revealed is ours, the secret's are God's. The first five (5)
words in this sentence, reveals why we make decisions, direct
our prayers and focus on specific revelations, in our world of chaos.
What is revealed, is our personal perspective.
What is revealed through the Holy Spirit, is our scale-of-balances
in action.
The revelation that surpasses all revelation . . . contains the wisdom
to trust, that all secret's belong to God.
What are God's secret's ?
Maybe our protection from evil, is within God's secret's. To name
a few things that may not be revealed (yet) . . .
* loss of live(s)
* loss of career(s)
* loss of relationship(s)
* loss of finance(s)
* loss of comfort
* loss of stability
* loss of word(s)
For a moment, use your childhood memories.
These secret's of God, withhold, as a parent would withhold, the
details of why the `tooth-fairy`. . . leaves money under the pillow.
Remember, you cried your eyes red, from the pain and blood
of the tooth being pulled-out.
You became so surprised the next morning, to discover your old
tooth is gone from under the pillow and a reward replaces the
lost tooth.
This seems to be a simple reminder of why the scripture states,
" What is revealed is ours, the secret's are God's ".
If we concentrate on the messages, visions and Bible scriptures
that we understand, this prepares us to receive more of God's
secret's.
Like any good parent, God withhold's all secret's that are not
in His `divine-timing`, for us to know.
WHAT A CARING HEAVENLY FATHER, WE HAVE !
Do you believe God keeps secret's, because He loves us ?
Well, that is a lesson based on `faith`. Until we learn trust in God,
`faith` has no stable foundation, to germinate the seeds of trust.
As you c o n t e m p l a t e the gift of `faith`, think about
trusting your personal revelations, while accepting the secret's belonging to God.