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iris:
Hi Sonofone,
You have been and will be in my prayers.
Peace and Love
Iris
ciy:
Son of one
I am praying for you. Kat, Joe, and especially MG have given you some great words of encouragement. There is little that can be added other than to tell you we all have a great problem really accepting no free will. I know beyond a shadow of doubt that I have no free will and God is sovereign, but I find myself daily subconsicously falling back into my carnality. I will get mad at someone before I remember that it is not them it is God, so trust God and realize it all of God.
Be encouraged by all of our weaknesses and trust God.
CIY
Bradigans:
John 16:13 - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
skydreamers:
Hi sonofone,
My prayers are with you...the whole "no free will" concept was really hard for me too...you're not alone in your struggles....I have an insane desire to know everything there is to know, like yesterday ;D but I have to keep reminding myself of this scripture:
1 Corinthians 13:9-13 (Message)
We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
Peace to you,
Diana
MG, that was a really beautiful post!
Deborah-Leigh:
MG
What you said here hit home for me :I was at the mercy of God and there was no choice I could make that would improve my situation. I could not choose to change who I was. I could not choose to change my desires. I could not choose to learn truth without God opening my ears and my eyes. I could only look to God and tell him I missed the mark and call out to him to save me. When I looked at myself from my point of view it was impossible.
It hit home the recognition of the fact that not only are WE at the mercy of God and there is no choice WE can make to impove our situations or circumstances BUT EVERYONE ELSE TOO is at the mercy of God ! Whether they know it or not, THEY TOO can not alter anything because God has set all things to the purpose of His Will.
To me MG and sonofone, THAT is so big a concept to hold in place and in awareness....I know it is beyond my human comprehension or capacity to integrate without the Sovereign Grace of God.
I believe we should all pray for one another and for ourselves that Gods Grace to be unceasingly in us and overwheliming us and our small thoughts that we so humanily try to anchor to our understanding so we can peg our sence of saftey to our own limitations. We really need God and His Spirit to set us free from ourselves and EVERYTHING and that we be released to the haven of HIS wisdom that every purpose of His Will will be fulfilled and finally consumated through Gods own Love.
We really need God and our needs simply express themselves in a myriad of different ways and forms but they all say the same thing. WE NEED GOD. God IS OUR God. sonofone, your testimony of struggle and pain, for me has accentuated this fact. Thank you.
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
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