I want to share something very valuable I learn more about just this past week. When I mentor people to take the necessary steps to change ones circumstances in life, I find many people remain in bondage to bad or unfortunate circumstances in life when people fail to be humble enough to see any fault of their own doing and fail to accept any Godly counsel or instruction based on His Word. I sense in my spirit that when we remain in a bad situation, it has nothing to do with "bad luck" or any "misfortune" or as one person kept saying that God is punishing me. We have to stop blaming God for our circumstances and ask the Lord, "What is it that I may have caused or failed to do?". When I think of my past, and how I have often lived with negative circumstances, it wasn't because God simply allowed this to happen as if we are to put the blame on Him, but the fact that I had believed and accepted the lies of the enemy often spoken through people rather than believing what God said about myself and believing Him instead. Even out of ignorance, I still suffered. What I needed to do to be set free was to realize my error and ask Him for forgiveness because I failed to believe Him, even if it was only out of ignorance. When I took that step to repent and chose to believe what He could do His work through me and desired to have that child-like relationship with Him, it was then that I started to see wonderful changes in my circumstances. However, I had to first repent and take responsibility for accepting the error of my ways. Those who continue to blame God, blame circumstances and fail to take responsibility by seeing their error will never grow up and never live a fulfilling life that God intends for us to have (John 10:10b). Its just like His Grace, even though it is available to all, those who learn to be humble, develop a bold confidence in Him (Heb 4:16) and believe/accept Him for what He says are the only ones who benefit the blessings of God.
When we receive Godly counsel from others, especially those who have lived through similar circumstances who know how to help from which they themselves received and people who need counsel (2 Cor 1:3,4), is it any wonder why negative circumstances don't change for some people when they fail to accept Godly instruction from others experience in the first place? God tells us in Prov 12:1 (New Living Translation) "To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction". I highlight this because God uses strong language about those who refuse to accept Godly counsel that is intended to help people in their time of need, but we make up excuses why not to do it. In Gods eyes, it is stupid when we refuse His counsel because He is the only One who is able and willing to help us. He often can't help us because we fail to accept the error of our ways and fail to accept responsibility. When God places a person in a given situation, I believe the circumstances can become much better when a person remains steadfast in Him and believes he/she can be used of God to be effective. It all comes down to: Who are we going to believe and will we believe He can use us to have a postive effect on others in their need? Or are we going to let their evil ways infect us simply because we accept their lies rather than believing who we are in Christ?
I truly believe that when constant negative circumstances dominates our lives, it is not so much that we have been dealt with a worse hand by God, the real problem is we fail to see any fault of our own and make excuses rather than taking the necessary steps we need to take from receiving any Godly counsel. As an example, one of the units that I was an overseer of their financial operation, were having much difficulty. I asked this person who is new to the position if the people before her were taking steps to help them manage their paperwork more efficiently which I taught them to do just over a year ago. She said they weren't. I believe it is like our lives with God. Is it any wonder why things at this particular unit did not work out when they failed to receive instruction and put it to use? Equally, when we receive Godly counsel, how can we expect to see improvements in our lives when we refuse to take the necessary steps which He instructs us to do? This is why we need to take responsibility and need to ask for forgiveness when we fail to seek Godly counsel and His loving instructions that are intended to help us. I find more and more that Gods Word only works when we understand that God is always faithful while at the same time, we need to understand that we have a responsibility to study His Word, spend time in prayer and develop that love relationship with Him and with others so that we may remain strong in Him. We cannot say that God is our God if we thought He ever made a mistake or believed He doesn't understand our situation or if we continue to question Him critically.
When we fail to repent and seek His counsel, we are blind to see any fault of our own which I believe is the primary cause why negative circumstances remain in our lives. It is up to us to choose to be humble, repent and receive His forgiveness who will ever help us. Just like God gives us the responsibility to choose life or death, blessings or curses (Deut 30:19). Lets stop kidding ourselves and realize we need to humble ourselves before God, seek and receive His forgiveness and with the help of accepting Godly counsel, believe that He is indeed our Helper in our time of need (John 14:16,26). Otherwise, we can't expect changes to improve until we learn to do this first. These messages that often encourage and challenge us is always done in love in order to that we may be more eternally blessed because of it.
Will you consider buying my books in support of HelpingCopeThroughHope mission work in Zambia? You may go to my link below to observe.In the Matchless Name of Jesus
Richard
Associate Director
Answers2Prayerhttp://sites.google.com/site/greatestbuilderforourlife
http://www.answers2prayer.org/
www.helpingcopewithhope.blogspot.com
I truly believe that when constant negative circumstances dominates our lives, it is not so much that we have been dealt with a worse hand by God, the real problem is we fail to see any fault of our own and make excuses rather than taking the necessary steps we need to take from receiving any Godly counsel. As an example, one of the units that I was an overseer of their financial operation, were having much difficulty. I asked this person who is new to the position if the people before her were taking steps to help them manage their paperwork more efficiently which I taught them to do just over a year ago. She said they weren't. I believe it is like our lives with God. Is it any wonder why things at this particular unit did not work out when they failed to receive instruction and put it to use? Equally, when we receive Godly counsel, how can we expect to see improvements in our lives when we refuse to take the necessary steps which He instructs us to do? This is why we need to take responsibility and need to ask for forgiveness when we fail to seek Godly counsel and His loving instructions that are intended to help us. I find more and more that Gods Word only works when we understand that God is always faithful while at the same time, we need to understand that we have a responsibility to study His Word, spend time in prayer and develop that love relationship with Him and with others so that we may remain strong in Him. We cannot say that God is our God if we thought He ever made a mistake or believed He doesn't understand our situation or if we continue to question Him critically.
When we fail to repent and seek His counsel, we are blind to see any fault of our own which I believe is the primary cause why negative circumstances remain in our lives. It is up to us to choose to be humble, repent and receive His forgiveness who will ever help us. Just like God gives us the responsibility to choose life or death, blessings or curses (Deut 30:19). Lets stop kidding ourselves and realize we need to humble ourselves before God, seek and receive His forgiveness and with the help of accepting Godly counsel, believe that He is indeed our Helper in our time of need (John 14:16,26). Otherwise, we can't expect changes to improve until we learn to do this first. These messages that often encourage and challenge us is always done in love in order to that we may be more eternally blessed because of it.
Will you consider buying my books in support of HelpingCopeThroughHope mission work in Zambia? You may go to my link below to observe.In the Matchless Name of Jesus
Richard
Associate Director
Answers2Prayerhttp://sites.google.com/site/greatestbuilderforourlife
http://www.answers2prayer.org/
www.helpingcopewithhope.blogspot.com
In quietness and in (trusting)confidence shall be your strength (Isa 30:15b)
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