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Dave in Tenn:
Oh my. Time for a little exhortation?
So what if you can only manage 10 seconds of real prayer a day? Don't you know the carnal mind is enmity with God? Don't you think GOD knows that? Do you think YOU are any different just because He's chosen you? Pray your ten seconds, and ask God for ten more seconds. In a week, you're up to a minute. In some over a year, you're up to an hour. Give God enough time to work in you and you're praying without ceasing. Thank Him for ten seconds. He's not given that to most of humanity.
Don't be like a bunch of pentacostal old ladies waiting for the 'feeling' to be right. Wrestle! Tell God what is on your mind. He already knows. You feel guilt? You feel lazy? You feel unmotivated? You feel unworthy? Then let your prayer be that! Get those encumbrances out of the way and behind you.
Are you still holding on to the fantasy that He's already saved you--past tense? Get it straight. He's in the process of saving you. That does more than just imply growth, don't you think? While we were yet sinners, He DIED for us...don't you reckon He will wait for us?
I'm not there yet, but I see a day when the scales tip and what is difficult in the spirit now becomes easier, and what is easy now in the flesh becomes more unthinkably difficult. Then He'll be able to make us stand.
What Father doesn't enjoy wrestling with his kids? He can smack us down without trying. He knows already our weakness against Him. He already knows His strength against us. But if we are to learn, we have to try.
aqrinc:
Dave,
I do believe you got my attention with that exhortation also.
Martinez,
We are all His Creation, do you think God Called you just so you can shut up?
In Christ we are Made Righteous, so yes; you are called and Made Righteous.
Come Brother, lets reason this one out together. Where you are now is a place
on the journey, the destination is where God Is Taking you in Christ Jesus Now.
Our Father Wants us to Run to Him when we feel lonely, lost or scared so Do It.
George.
--- Quote from: Martinez on October 24, 2008, 03:03:10 PM ---
I find myself hardly ever praying at all because I figure that if the prayer of a righteous man avails much then there's no point for me to pray.
I am definitely with you guys on this one.
I really feel that God would not want to hear from Me at all.
!
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Ricky:
Dave, that was awesome, you said, Do you think You are any different just because He`s chosen you? Dave I really need to know something has God chosen me to? thankyou
Ricky
OBrenda:
That was Powerful Dave!
Brenda
Kat:
Hi Ricky,
--- Quote ---Dave I really need to know something has God chosen me to?
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You know the parable of the sower and the seed. Here is what Christ says in verse 23.
Mat 13:23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
As you can see from what Jesus says, when you hear the truth and go on to bear fruit in your life, that is the indication that the spirit is indwelling.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
When you began to overcome things that you never could before, that is the Holy Spirit at work. Then I believe you know you are in the race, one of the 'chosen.' But that is not a guarantee, because you must remain "faithful" to the end.
Rev 17:14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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