Compromise

Compromise! There is an old saying, “Everybody has a price.” We look around, and see the crime, corrupt politics, and people who seem to have utter disregard for other people’s property, livelihood, or life. As time draws on more and more people seem to care only for themselves. Many don’t care how they inconvenience you or what you do for them, as long as they get what they want.

     Right is right and wrong is wrong and circumstances should not change that. Most of the problems we encounter in everyday life are due to our compromising on some issue. Guilt results as a compromise to SIN. Poverty results as a compromise to not wanting to do better badly enough to make it happen. Being constantly broke and in financial disaster is mostly the result of compromising to over indulgence.

     There is a scientific fact that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” Jet propulsion is based on this fact.

     The same is true in the spiritual sense. Our situations are results of our actions. We would all have to spend less time imploring God to help us, and more time in asking Him to lead us, if we compromised our situations less.

     Pray that God will show you where you compromise.

HE CHOSE YOU!

     With the baseball season beginning, my thoughts went back to what we used to call “Pasture Baseball”. Maybe you can relate – Remember choosing sides, one kid at a time? It was torture, waiting to be chosen, wasn’t it? Were you ever the last one left, not chosen, and by default went to one side or the other? If you were, you were usually put in some insignificant position, while the “chosen ones” got the choice positions.

     If you remember, your attitude was affected by that process. If you were chosen, you felt like a winner and you gave your all. If you weren’t, you felt like a looser, and lower than a snake’s belly.

     Well look up!!! If you’ve never been chosen by man, what difference does it make? You were chosen b y God Himself to carry out a particular mission for Him. Out of all the people in the world God could have chosen to do what you’re doing, He Chose You. You’re part of the “chosen ones!!” Shouldn’t that make you feel just a little be special?

     Like that baseball game, All God wants, is for you to find what position He wants you to play, get in it, and do it.

     Ask God to show you the position He wants you in, get in it, and don’t let anyone or anything move you out of it!!!

Why They Hate God's Word

Even a dim light, will shine bright
in a dark night!

 "You will be hated... for My name’s sake." Matthew 24:9                                  

Biblical Christianity doesn't fit the world's vision of global solidarity. It hinders progress toward global governance. It clashes with the amoral values and mind-dulling enticements needed to prepare the masses for "change." No wonder the so called globalist leaders seek ways to eradicate this shall I say inconvenient "obstacle!" They may even use Islam which I believe to be the case to accomplish their purpose.

In their battle against Truth, these "Power Elites" seem blind to the spiritual war that rages in their midst. They don't realize that their foolish plans can never ever block God's will and power! God's plan for the world was revealed long ago, and He will surely fulfill it -- in His perfect time and way!

So educate yourself on the things of this world, but always keeping faith in Christ Jesus.  Be encouraged and Remember: 

"The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. ...the counsel of the Lord stands forever..." Psalm 33:10-11

Thank God for enabling us to Live for Him!

“Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

1 Corinthians 10:31 

       Thank God for enabling us to Live for Him – Part 9

 "The natural creation and the creation of grace work together, and what we are apt to call the sordid things, laboring with our hands, and eating and drinking, have to be turned into spiritual exercises by obedience, then we shall 'eat and drink, and do all to the glory of God....
       "'Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit' ... the handiwork of God, and it is in these bodies we are to find satisfaction, and that means strenuousness. Every power of mind and heart should go into the strenuousness of turning the natural into the spiritual by obeying the word of God regarding it. If we do not make the natural spiritual, it will become sordid; but when we become spiritual, the natural is shot through with the glory of God."

This concludes our “In Everything Give Thanks" Series

Thank God for His Grace and Victory Part 8

If you recall last time we look at:

Thank God for the pressure of His Hand – Part 7

"Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ." 2 Corinthians 2:14

      "The viewpoint of a worker for God must not be as near the highest as he can get, it must be the highest. Be careful to maintain strenuously God’s point of view, it has to be done every day, bit by bit; don’t think on the finite. No outside power can touch the viewpoint. The viewpoint to maintain is that we are here for one purpose only, to be captives in the train of Christ’s triumphs. We are not in God’s showroom, we are here to exhibit one thing—the absolute captivity of our lives to Jesus Christ.....

      "Paul’s secret joy was that God took him, a red-handed rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive, and now that is all he is here for. Paul’s joy was to be a captive of the Lord, he had no other interest in heaven or on earth. ...  The Victor ought to have got us so completely that it is His victory all the time, and we are more than conquerors through Him. 'For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ.'"

Next time we will Examine the Last Part of this Series:

Thank God for enabling us to Live for Him

Thank God for the Pressure of His Hand – Part 7

If you recall last time we look at:

Thank God for our Sanctification Part 6

"Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me." Matthew 11:29.

       “'Whom the Lord loves, He chastens.' How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with Him, and we groan and say—‘Oh Lord, let me be like other people!’ Jesus is asking us to take one end of the yoke—‘My yoke is easy, get alongside Me and we will pull together.’

      "Are you identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God for the pressure of His hand. “To them that have no might He increase strength?” God comes and takes us out of our sentimentality and our complaining turns into a psalm of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and learn of Him. 'The joy of the Lord is your strength.'

      "Where do the saints get their joy from? If we did not know some saints, we would say— ‘Oh, he, or she, has nothing to bear.’ Lift the veil. The fact that the peace and the light and the joy of God are there is proof that the burden is there too. The burden God places squeezes the grapes and out comes the wine; most of us see the wine only. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness. If you have the whine in you, kick it out...."

     Let me ask you again! – Do you feel it? Do you feel the pressure of the Lord’s Hand on You?

Next time we will examine:

Thank God for His Grace and Victory Part 8