You Can Not Out Give God!

The “Good News” letter
Sunday, 04/05/09
Hello Readers,

According to the latest posting on my computer the weather in North Carolina on Sunday should be warm, sunny and beautiful. Sometimes the weather agrees with the forecast and sometimes not. There are so many changes in weather patterns that are unpredictable. People have been trying to forecast the weather correctly for centuries.

When God reveals his plan(s) for individuals or nations to us, you can count on his word and the events occurring as he has revealed them. There are no occasions that God’s word was not or will not be fulfilled. God does not change like the weather, he is the same yesterday, today and forever, and he keeps his promises that he has made to mankind. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

In the present condition of world economies, citizens of the world can get quite edgy and discontented with only the slightest of downtrends in the marketplace or a decrease of hours on their job or with their job situation becoming insecure, decline in their personal portfolio or an increase in grocery or fuel prices. Even devaluation in the current value of their home or increase in property taxes can be alarming for a lot of people. Many people can not even sleep through the night for worrying about the present and/or the future.

As Christians we should not be all consumed with the way the world is changing, for we are no longer of this world, but we are being transformed by the renewing of our minds. (Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.) (Ephesians 4: 23-24 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteous and true holiness.) Are you experiencing the joy and freshness and the expectancy of what the Lord will reveal to you each day? If not, why not? What is the stumbling block(s) to your living the “abundant life” that Jesus wants you to live? (John 10: 9-11 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.) Jesus wants you to live an abundant life.

Living an abundant life in Jesus comes with some advise from Paul about running in a race (the race to spread the gospel) in 1 Corinthians 9:23-25 “And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a partaker thereof with you. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.” Paul also spoke of this race in Hebrews 12: 1-3 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”
Are you in “the race”? If not, you can join “the race”, just pray to God about your desire to serve him and he will let you know how and when. Do not stop praying to God about this for God hears our prayers.

Please remember that no matter how valuable your money, time, or service is to you, they can all be used of God and he will bless you for what you give for building his kingdom. You can not out give God! God has given his only son to save us, to make a way through Jesus for us to be reconciled to God. We can not out give God! God created all that was, is and ever will be. God gave us life and as Christians, eternal life. We can not out give God!

If you have confidential prayer requests, please email them to: denainc@windstream.net or call 775-1954 and ask for Nancy. Your prayer request will be laid at God’s throne and the prayer that is prayed will be sent to you.