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Kat:
Hi Jeff, here is another Scripture I hope will be helpful, as it tells us we are to give our burdens/worries to Christ and we will find rest.
Matt 11:28 "Come to Me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.
v. 29 Place My yoke on you and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,
v. 30 because My yoke is pleasant, and My burden is light."
Yes it is a weary thing to keep striving to overcome and looking at all our faults and not being able to change. We have to learn how to put OUR works, of fighting a losing battle to overcome our sins, aside and enter into God rest. Here are a couple of emails, maybe they can help in some way.
http://bible-truths.com/email3.htm#Sabbath ----------------------------------------
As the Sabbath command was part of the Old Covenant Law, which Paul went to great length to inform us that we are no longer under, it makes little difference which day is the Sabbath of Israel. The Sabbath like ALL aspects of the law of Moses and the law of God, the Torah, the Old Testament, was a shadow of something to come. It pictured something to come that would be the spiritual fulfillment of this command. Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the Passover lamb. Jesus was slain, and so it would be WRONG for us to continue to slay a Passover lamb every Passover season to cover our sins. Likewise, the Sabbath pictured entering into a REST with God from our own WORKS. Not just our weekly physical labor of earning a living, but ALL OF OUR OWN WORKS.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3497.msg26121.html#msg26121 ---
COMMENT: It is wrong to do OUR spiritual works ON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. That is what the Sabbath is to teach us. We are NOT to do our works, but let God work IN US on every day of the week, not just the seventh. Keeping the physical weekly Sabbath is for those who have not yet come to obey the SPIRITUAL Sabbath of God's rest (Heb. 4:3-4). Once a Gentile is circumcised in his heart and spirit it is not necessary to be PHYSICAL circumcised in his flesh, Etc.
http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,492.0.html -----------------------
God gives us FAITH, and God grants us GRACE, and with that He works out His achievement in us by causing us to DO GOOD WORKS, and don't let any two-faced lying hypocritical false prophet ever tell you differently.
Our "good works" will not save us, but God will save no one in whom He does not ORDAIN GOOD WORKS that they must walk in.
Now then, take heart. As you read the Truths of God, OBEY all that God is showing you. God will lead you to true spiritual repentance, as that too is something that only God can grant to you (See Rom. 2:4). When you begin to live a life without all the sins of your past, you will have a clean and clear conscience for the first time in your entire life. With a clean and clear conscience comes PEACE OF MIND. If God is causing you to seek Him, then God will grant you repentance, and sin will no longer have "dominion over you" (Rom. 6:14). You and your future are in God's hands.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat
Gina:
--- Quote from: Rick on September 27, 2015, 06:50:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jeff on September 27, 2015, 05:54:18 PM ---
I'm being told to be grateful for the weariness
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Hi Jeff,
That is perfect what you just said, the first time I did what you just said something special happen inwardly, it reaching out in faith.
When your thankful for something you don’t want to be thankful for that’s when something spiritual happens.
God says be thankful for all things, so be thankful for all things, its easy to be thankful for the good things isn’t it ? But not so easy to be thankful for the bad things which is a part of causing our growth too !
But I must say its God who causes us to be thankful for all things.
God bless. ;)
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Hi, Rick -
Yes, I read somewhere in the NT that we are to be thankful "for" all things. But I don't know if I would take that literally.
1 Thessalonians 5:18: give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Jesus gave thanks throughout his ministry, but I can't find where Jesus thanked the Father for being crucified:
Luke 22:42: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
It would be like thanking His Father for sin, and evil and wickedness, the works of the devil, which He came to destroy. I don't know - did I miss something?
rick:
--- Quote from: Gina on September 28, 2015, 02:05:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rick on September 27, 2015, 06:50:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jeff on September 27, 2015, 05:54:18 PM ---
I'm being told to be grateful for the weariness
--- End quote ---
Hi Jeff,
That is perfect what you just said, the first time I did what you just said something special happen inwardly, it reaching out in faith.
When your thankful for something you don’t want to be thankful for that’s when something spiritual happens.
God says be thankful for all things, so be thankful for all things, its easy to be thankful for the good things isn’t it ? But not so easy to be thankful for the bad things which is a part of causing our growth too !
But I must say its God who causes us to be thankful for all things.
God bless. ;)
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Hi, Rick -
Yes, I read somewhere in the NT that we are to be thankful "for" all things. But I don't know if I would take that literally.
1 Thessalonians 5:18: give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Jesus gave thanks throughout his ministry, but I can't find where Jesus thanked the Father for being crucified:
Luke 22:42: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
It would be like thanking His Father for sin, and evil and wickedness, the works of the devil, which He came to destroy. I don't know - did I miss something?
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Hi Gina,
Jesus is God , God told us to be thankful for all things and I’m thankful Christ followed through being crucified or we would be dead in our sins and our faith would be in vain.
I know this is brief but I must go to work now..which I’m thankful for even though I would like to stay home .
God bless .
Gina:
That's a good way of looking at that, I agree.
Jeff:
--- Quote from: Kat on September 27, 2015, 10:10:40 PM --- If God is causing you to seek Him, then God will grant you repentance, and sin will no longer have "dominion over you" (Rom. 6:14). You and your future are in God's hands.
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Yes, Kat. That does help. Thank you :)
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