When Our Lives Are Lived In Obedience To God's Will

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"If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for one who believes."  Mark 9:23

              There is a part of the body of Christ that has adopted a slogan from the secular self-help movement: "If you can conceive it and believe it!" If you can imagine yourself as an astronaut or a star player in the NBA, and believe it with all your heart, are you likely to achieve such a goal? The answer for most adults is no. 

             What's good about the "name it and claim it" school that encourages us not to limit ourselves or God. What's wrong with this approach is that it misunderstands the word of Jesus. For example, a corollary of Jesus words in Mark 9:23 is that "all things are possible for [God]"-words Jesus spoke on the night of His arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mark 14:16). Jesus believed it was possible for Him not to go to the cross, and He also believed it was possible for God to keep Him from that suffering. Yet He went to the cross anyway.  

            Think about this: Our beliefs and possibilities have to be in line with the will of God. That's how Jesus lived His life and how He taught His disciples to live (John 5:30). When our lives are lived  in obedience to God's will, nothing is impossible. Dream big--but dream biblically!

            Affirmation: The righteous will live by his faith (Habakkuk 2:4). I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith" (Romans 1:16-17). Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous will live by faith" (Galatians 3:11). Before faith in Christ came, we were guarded by the law, confined for the faith which was later to be revealed. So the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor (Galatians 3:23-25).                                                            

 As the Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal any areas of unconfessed sin. Acknowledge these to the LORD and thank Him for His forgiveness.   

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