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- You never
know what God is going to do. You may think you do, but you don't.
He will bring about the result
prayed for, but He will do it in a way that you could not have
imagined.
There is great danger in teaching
that God is predictable. Predictability is one of the deepest
longings of the flesh, and it is lethal.
Today's Church wants believers
to have predictable finances, predictable marriages, predictable
retirements, and all the while the Lord is inviting us to the
great adventure of His design - living by faith!
- The Bible
teaches that the Prince of Peace wants us wants us to rest secure
in His being our Rock - not the insurance company being our rock.
The Bible teaches us that marriage is a place to step out in
faith and lay our lives down to allow Him to show Himself strong
in our weakness - not learn to compromise away the opportunity
for faith.
The Bible teaches that today is
enough trouble for itself, and that we must not worry because
we are resting in Him, not a 401K.
Of course, not a single one
of these things is evil or forbidden. but we are to be available
to be made into His likeness, and if He wants to collapse the
bank, it is His business. If He wants to have us always give
and never get from the marriage, it is His business. If He wants
us to sell pencils on the corner when we thought we would be
playing shuffle board in Florida, it is His business.
We are an over-planned and an
under-fed, under-faithed Church.
We have settled for spoon-feeding,
and it has robbed us of fuel for prayer and the adventure of
the faith-walk.
- Some of
us saw a plaque last night that said:
"Have you read my best
seller? There will be a test.
- signed,
- God"
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