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Posted 24 August 2012 - 05:04 AM

It is not uncommon for people to become upset with God. Some major crisis or some great desire becomes a prayer. We appeal to God for help. There is no apparent help forthcoming. What happens next? Some conclude that there is no God. Others decide that He doesn't care. Some get angry and determine not to have anymore to do with God. How little do we realize what that says about our false concept of God. He is not our servant. He doesn't exist to do whatever we want Him to do. He is going to do whatever is right, no matter what we think. It is arrogance of the highest order, if we think that we know better than God what is right. This is where trust comes in. We are willing to trust Him when He allows sorrow, pain, hardship and death. We trust Him when the only response to our prayers is silence. We trust Him when something worse (in our minds) than what we've already suffered happens to us. It is wicked pride if we decide that He is not trustworthy, because He won't do what we have decided that He should do. What kind of god would He be, if He had to come to us to find out what He should do? Prayer has qualifications. Psalm 84:11 tells us that "....no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." There are two conditions: what we ask has to be a good thing in His sight, and we have to walk uprightly. "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts" (James 4:3). When what we pray for is some sinful desire, don't expect Him to grant it. I John 5:14 reminds us that "....this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us." We must ask in harmony with His will. Therefore, we have to spend time in His Word to find out what His will is. Selah! If we have a genuine experience of salvation, we will learn to spend much quaility time in the Scriptures to develop a trust in Him that is cast-iron. Nothing less will give us that kind of trust. Thinker (Ron)
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 07:16 AM

Ron,

Thanks for another thought-provoking post. Personally, I have hardly ever gotten what I (thought I) wanted. My life has not gone how I occasionally envisioned. And more than once, I've had to repent in tears for having my own ideas in the forefront. Thank God He is trustworthy, faithful and true. I told a brother once that I would not want to serve a God who was so weak and vacillating that He would give in to my carnal thinking.
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 01:13 PM

John, thanks for your reply. Your last sentence is very well put. Wishing You His Best Thinker (Ron)

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Posted 27 August 2012 - 09:47 AM

Often when we confront a very difficult situation or life crisis, our prayers are seemingly unanswered but after the crisis passes and we look back, God was there and His hand was at the controls all the time. Too many of us pray for deliverance out of a situation(I`m one of those) and do not consider for a moment that God just may be IN the situation. Sometimes I wonder why I seem to have to learn all my lessons the "hard" way but then God does know me actually better than I know myself, and the "hard" lesson usually stick with me. I am convinced that God hears ALL of our prayers and answers all of them, but often in ways that we really won`t understand until later.
Someone once said that when we have a difficult, heavy load, not to ask for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. This stregthening is found in God`s word and there is sufficient stregth there for all of us who take the time to look, study, and apply the Truth.
Lord, please help me to always seek your strength in my times of difficulty. Make me always aware of Your presence, love, and grace.
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Posted 28 August 2012 - 04:18 AM

Charles, thanks for your timely remarks. They are "right on!" Thinker (Ron)