The Trust in Asking for Prayers

The Trust in Asking for Prayers

                                       

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In our trusting God in our Seeking His Kingdom, we ask for prayers.  In believing the power that comes in prayers, we build our trust in God; in our patience we see and sometimes feel the results, and in those results, we build Trust and patience.

It is most pleasing to God that we ask others for prayers as it justifies the faith that He has put in us for Him.

To build our strength we would not buy a bicycle and let it sit and in the same manner we have to exercise our faith to build our greater use of it.  Asking for prayers is one way of excercising our faith and showing Trust.  In building greater Trust it is helpful to draw people of faith to our circle of friends.  Seek to find God's people in your life.  Drawing people of faith near to us, seeing them live in faith, seeing the results of their faith, helps to sustain our faith and increases our Trust in Him.  

No matter where we go and in all we do, we influence others.  Your influence of living life Trusting God is a blessing to those of Faith  and an example to those who do not exercise their faith.  

Pray for the Holy Spirt to fill you that your life in Trusting God will influence others to live in Faith and in Trusting God.

God is Good, All the Time
He is truly worthy of our Trust and our Patience.

Believe in God, Believe in Jesus' Salvation, and 
 Receive the Holy Spirit into your everyday life, and
    Pray often- every day.
      It will change your life in ways beyond your understanding.

Thanks Be to God

© lonnie coggins

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

John 14:1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

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Do Not Worry

John 6:25-33pp -- Lk 12:22-31

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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Finding Our Confidence

Finding Our Confidence in Trusting God
                                       

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There is great danger in our daily living as too often we live day to day trusting in our ways of existing, depending on the confidence found in our desires, and ignoring the help God Desires to provide in leading us to a greater relationship with Him.  Our greatest failure is ignoring God and His help and in that, we fail to build our Trust in Him.  But, Believing In Jesus we receive God's Gift of Faith and develop Trust that leads us beyond existing to growing in His Grace, learning to Trust, to Praise, and Love Him in our Triumphful living (*7).

Our faith is God's gift to us (Eph 3:8 & Rom 12:3 (*1)), Jesus bears witness to this faith in His example for us, and in our acceptance of Jesus as Savior, we also receive the Holy Spirit that provides and guides us to the Trust that Jesus commands (John 14:1 (*2)).  The Greek word of the New Testament for faith is translated as a noun, a thing, a most special thing but still a thing.  This Thing called Faith is a most personal present from God.  In His unearned Grace of giving us Faith, we can do nothing to earn it, deserve it, or in any way be worthy of it.  And, that is just the way God desires it and in that, we can make no claim on having done anything to receive it.

However, Trust is different.  Trust is an active imperative command of Jesus that we are to do!  In Trust, we come to the point of maintaining belief beyond the evidence (*5).  Saint John, a most close disciple and apostle of Jesus tells us in chapter 14 that Jesus commands us, "Let not your hearts be troubled, Trust God..." (*2).

Just as in our behaviors with friends and in their behaviors toward us, we learn to depend on friends building confidence our friends are dependable.  In our own lives in our behaviors and experiences with God the same activity, confidence and trust occurs as it develops!

Just as we choose friends to trust, in trusting God we learn He is truly trustworthy beyond our expectation, knowledge, and understanding.    But, even as we come to know God IS trustworthy, we must learn to rely on that trust to build our confidence in Him.  Again, Trust is an action verb we must do!  In doing this, we begin with three things to build trust.

First:  Trust in God begins with prayerful communications with Him on a daily basis and Jesus is the example for us in this activity.  He prayed often and alone.  God wants a relationship with us simply because He made us out of love (*6).  With our prayers we thank him for His grace, talk about our needs, and most of all listen and watch for His response.  Listening is most important.  God gave us two ears and one mouth possibly indicating we are to listen in stereo far more than we talk and He gave us two eyes to observe with vision to understand far more than just what we see.  We can pray about our wants but we cannnot hang our trust on God providing all our wants.  Praying for discernment in knowing the difference between needs and wants is important too.

Next:  We need to Read, Reflect, and React to God's Holy Scripture.  The Truth we find in scripture is God's word that people have Trusted for over 3500 years.  It is not situational ethics or something to ponder, but the very essence of how to live life in a loving relationship with Him!

Third and final part of this message:  Prayer and Bible Study should be a daily event both in the privacy of aloneness and in the company of other believers.   Prayer, and especially prayer, should be often in our daily thoughts.  In communications with God we build our trusting confidence in God with our daily experiences in seeing what He does for us in the little things of life (*3).  In that trusting God in the little things in life, we learn and it prepares us to Trust in the more important troublesome events of life that truly tend to test our faith.

With having great confidence in God in the Trust we build, we may not always be happy with our circumstances but with the Trust we have built in our daily living we come to be thankful regardless of our circumstances (1Thes 5:16-18 (*4) see note).  From being thankful regardless of our circumstances we can feel Joy in recognizing God's grace regardless of the surroundings we live in.  When we recognize His grace regardless of circumstances, we are sustained to have a triumphal end to the valleys of life that could easily overwhelm us.

From the movie "The Book of Eli", Denzel Washington's character tells a friend, "There is no Testimony without a Test."  This is great and Godly wisdom in that we are not to live life seeking to avoid all Trials and Testing.  In our Trials of Testing, seeking God's desires for us results in finding Confident Triumphal living in the paths God presents to us to achieve His Will for our lives.

Thanks be to God.

lonnie

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(*1)

Ephesians 2:

3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.8For it is by grace you have been saved,

     through faith--and 

      this not from yourselves, 

         it is the gift of God--9not by works, so that no one can boast.10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

One in Christ

11Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Romans 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
(*2)

John 14:

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.4You know the way to the place where I am going."

Jesus the Way to the Father

5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
(*3)  This very message came after a morning prayer.  I had been thinking and studying the Greek for the past week on the meaning of Trust in our relationship with God.  I knew I would know when it was time to write about it.  In my prayerlife, I pray for the Spirit to guide the words that I write.  That was in my morning prayer.  As soon as I said 'Amen' the words came.  I did not even go to the compter, I was filled with this message and immediately picked up my pen and paper and started writing.
(*4)1 Thessalonians 5:14And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.16Be joyful always;17pray continually;18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.19Do not put out the Spirit's fire;20do not treat prophecies with contempt.21Test everything. Hold on to the good.22Avoid every kind of evil.23May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.24The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
Please note:  verse 18 does not tell us that we have to be thankful for our circumstance, but to be thanful in our circumstances.  No matter how bad our circumstances, we can find much for which to be thankful.
(*5)Trust overcomes the immediate facts of a situation allowing a person to continue to believe in spite of the facts.  When bad things happens to us and it looks like everything around us is out of control and we continue to to believe in the object of our faith, then we are trusting.  An earthly example:  We have a friend we know and have known for years.  You have never seen or have knowledge of any criminal activity and to the contrary this person you trust has always been someone you could depend on in any situation.  Then, someone breaks into your house while on vacation and only your friend you trust knew you were gone.  On top of that, the police find evidence the friend was in your house while you were gone and in fact you asked him to check on some plants.  But, fingerprints are found where they should not be.  In spite of the evidence, you still believe your friend did not fake the entry and steal valuable possessions.  This is trust inspite of the evidence.-(*6)The Essence of God
(*7)Growing in Grace: Grace at 168 Miles per Hour

10 Reasons we Rebel against God

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We Rebel against God  

 

There are many avenues that we Rebel against God, and in most of them, we might not realize we are rebelling.  It is so easy to go our own way to do what we should not do, forget about what we should do, and just do what we want.  

Hope I do not step on toes here, but it is easy to buy 'stuff' we do not really need, but we buy we like it better than what we have, that is still quite usable -- a bigger car, a bigger house, a bigger boat or camper just to name a few.  Or, newer things like a digital TV when the old Tube monster still works as good as ever.   Sometimes we try to rationalize the bigger purchase, but still know we could get by with less and something not so expensive.  

How much good could we do with the difference in price between what we want and what we can truly justify.  A good example of this, we buy a 40 inch TV when the clerk tells us a 32 inch will do just fine for your room size.  Say it is a $100 difference in price.  That $100 could do a lot of good helping someone else.

You may have experienced better examples than this, tell me of them in the comment section below.

The secular world will tell us

"Do it your way".... when
God is telling us to do it His way,
Through Jesus, He says: "I am the way.."
and we have the Holy Spirit to show us the Way!

It is unfortunate that in the days of mankind, 
       His way is far too often the "Road less Traveled".

I share but 10 ideas 

Why we Rebel against God.

1.     We doubt God in our having too much self-confidence (*1).

2.     We believe our Judgment is Better with never praying about our judgment or even asking opinions of others. 

Many leaders do this.  

They do not share leadership.  

They are a boss rather than a leader, and worse
     many think bossing is leadership.

Many 'leaders' feel: 
       It is only their way our you take the highway.
In our rebellion, we just like our selfishness, and that creates a barrier in our relationship with God.

3.     We believe God has Let us Down. 

Here, we did not ask for just our needs, but too often
    too much for our wants.  We are too Self-Focused!

We pray for our wants, and this sets us up for great disappointment in our relationship with God.
God is in the needs business not the wants business.

4.     We think we know better. 

We fail to pray and/or even ask for other opinions.

Boy, does this get us in trouble.

5.     We just want things our way. 

Another trouble maker!  

We plan. 
   We make a mess of our plans.
       We create a big mess, then pray, 
"God bless my mess."

 6.     We just get tired of being told what to do, where to do it, when to do it, and how to do it.
Then, we insist on knowing why we have to do it. 

In our impatience, we come to believe that we know better than God in what to do with our lives.

 7.     We would just rather live our way and suffer through

the familiar pain we know, rather than 
live in God’s Way, accept his help to heal our pain, and in patience allow Him to guide us in His Way.

8.     We just want to have selfish fun.   The irony comes when we learn that real fun comes more in helping others than in helping ourselves to our selfish idea of fun.

9.     We do not trust God because of unfulfilled prayers, we believe and still suffer, and sometimes our life just seems unjustly out of control.|  Again, this is a function of praying for wants and not needs.  The greatest mistake of our generation.

 10.  We feel God has left us when in fact, 

              it is us who have moved and turned away.

Add to the list below in the comments  section.

Many Times we do not even realize we are in rebellion against God.  In our greed, living in our desires, and  ignoring that inner conscience that tries to lead us in God's way, we slide into Sin without even realizing the sin we are in.  In the following writing you will read of some of these"Sneaky 'little' Sins" that slip into our lives.

How many of these little sins have captured your life?

Click here for>>>   Sneaky 'little' Sins

The Hope for Our Sin >>>>
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Behaviors God Desires From Us

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Notes:
*1  Self-Confidence is a Slippery Slope, click here for my experience of seeing it evaporate:
                Losing Confidence in Self at the Height of Success


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There are many reasons we rebel and sin against God, here are but ten.  If I remind you of your behavior, do not feel too bad.  Just correct your behavior, ask God for forgiveness and move on to better behaviors.  Our God is in the business of Forgivenss.  Click below for the message:

http://lonnieadailythought.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-reasons-we-rebel-against-god.html