Trusting His Good Things

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“May we humble ourselves and seek him again with all our hearts. His promises are reliable and trustworthy; not one word of them has failed.”

Joshua 23:14
Not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

The prophet Jeremiah was instrumental in predicting the demise of Judah and its exile to Babylon. The People of God had rebelled against him and run after foreign gods so the Lord God was executing retribution on the Jews for the disobedience. And yet, God had never forsaken his people or his promise to their forefather, Abraham, to raise them a great nation. Through Jeremiah he says, “I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Though we, like the people of Judah, often compromise our faithfulness to Father God, he remains faithful to his promise of blessing. Though we may become consumed with selfish ambition, the Lord our God never abandons his unselfish love and care for us. Today we can pause and remember how true God has been, even when we have strayed from his purposes. May we humble ourselves and seek him again with all our hearts. His promises are reliable and trustworthy; not one word of them has failed.

Turn your face toward his light. It’s not by your vision that you will gain victory, it’s only by the light of his face that you will be successful; for he loves you. Not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord has spoken concerning you. So, resubmit to his good plans by acknowledging God in all your ways and leaning not on your own understanding.

God-tracking is humbly following his good things.

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Jeremiah 29:10-14 (NIV)

Jeremiah 30:18 (NIV)
Psalm 44:3 (NIV)
Proverbs 3:5-6

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Don’t Give Up, Look Up & Pray

“I submit to your will and choose to trust all the good things which you have spoken concerning me.”

“Dear God, forgive me for taking my life into my own hands. I realise now that I have taken my eyes off your purposes and looked to do things my way. I acknowledge you again in all my ways and seek your purposes above my own ambition. I submit to your will and choose to trust all the good things which you have spoken concerning me. Amen.”

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Grace is God’s Doing

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“The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit .”

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I was leading worship in my church one Sunday morning when God taught me a very valuable lesson on grace. I was not in a good place in my life at the time. Although I was studying for the ministry and active in church, I was going through a period of dark rebellion. I was very critical and looked for loopholes in Scripture to qualify my unfounded motives. As I played my guitar and led the worship that day, the congregation moved to a higher level of the experience of the Spirit. I was dumbfounded. “How can this be, Lord?” I said in my head as I sang. “These people are in deep worship and yet I - their worship leader - am in a bad place. I feel so unworthy.”

In an instant, I sensed God’s answer, “Yes, Dudley, you are unworthy.”

“There you go,” I grunted indignantly in my heart, “I’m going to quit and hang up my guitar!” Again, the unmistakable still small voice spoke: “You are unworthy to lead these people in worship,” he said, “but I’m not!” Instantly I realised that it was, indeed, not I who was leading the worship that day, it was the Holy Spirit in me drawing those people into the throne room of God. It was God’s doing not mine. A harsh lesson in the truth of grace. Grace is God’s doing, not mine.

I discovered that no matter how bad I was feeling, if God had called me to do a job for him then it’s him in me doing it; not me. This is why Paul writes that Jesus once told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." God’s grace is God doing the job through you even when you’re feeling weak.

The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit Paul writes, “I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” We labour by God’s powers and not our prowess. And that’s grace.

John Newton said, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.” Grace is God’s doing. Therefore, to stop doing what you are called to do because you feel unworthy is to insult the grace of God.

God-tracking is just doing it, by God’s grace.

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2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Ephesians 2:8-10

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Don’t Give Up, Look Up & Pray

“If grace is God’s doing then do it in me to your glory.”

“O Lord, forgive me for my arrogance in thinking that it’s my skills and abilities that qualify me to serve you. I realise now that it’s only by your grace that I am what I am. Your grace has saved me and your grace empowers me to serve you. Forgive me for sin and rebellion, dear Father, and help me to serve you in humility, by your grace. If grace is God’s doing then do it in me to your glory. Amen.”

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Uncompromised Love

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“Our God is faithful and his love endures forever. What a prime example of fatherhood for you and me.”

Psalm 136:1 (ESV)
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Dave’s teenage son sat whimpering on the sofa. He’d just arrived home well past his curfew, and a little over, what might be deemed, a reasonable limit for a 16-year-old. “I - I’m sorry, dad,” he whined. “Sean, you know we believe you’re too young to consume alcohol!” asserted his father while his mother unleashed her disdain at his behaviour. 

Dave had raised his children as Christian believers. Both his son and daughter had discovered their own faith and accepted Christ as Lord. They had been schooled in the principles of Scripture and encouraged to acknowledge God in all they do. Yet, here was a case when his teenage son had violated the standards his father had set and had compromised his example of faith.

As Dave watched his repentant son rocking on the sofa, he was filled with deep compassion. “Sean,” he said, “you know you have broken my trust. You have violated the standards I’ve set for you for godly living, and that’s sin. But I love you. Though you may prove to be the source of grief to your mother and me, we will never, never stop loving you.” Hugging his sobbing son, Dave added, “Sean, there is nothing you could ever do that would cause us to stop loving you. We loved you before you broke our confidence and we still love you.”

Young Sean is indicative of the state of man. The Bible tells us that we have all sinned and violated the impeccable standards of God’s word. However, we read that while we were still sinners, God demonstrated his love for us in that Jesus died to redeem us from the curse of sin. Like Sean, you and I have broken our Father’s confidence and violated his standards. Yet, on confession of our sin, our Father is faithful and just to forgive us. He loves us and nothing, nothing will ever separate us from this love. Our God is faithful and his love endures forever. What a prime example of fatherhood.

Suan apologised to his mom and dad and repented before God for his wrongdoing and never violated their standards in this way again. It was his father’s uncompromised standards and his uncompromised love that changed the heart of this rebellious young man. Today, Sean is married with his own children, setting in them the same standards that his father set in him.

God-tracking is uncompromised love.

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Romans 3:10-18, 23-24
Romans 5:8
1 John 1:9
Psalm 100:5 (NIV)

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to show that same love to my family as you have shown to me.”

“Dear Father, I admit that I have violated your goodness and sinned against you. I’m sorry, Lord. I confess my sin and trust that your unconditional love will forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank you for your generous fatherly love. I know that nothing (not even my own wrongdoing) can separate me from your love. Help me to show that same love to my family as you have shown to me. Amen.”

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GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith. Most of what you’ll read is based upon the author’s personal experience of tracking the plans of God.

Listen to GodTracker podcasts by Dudley Anderson at, https://www.surereality.net/podcasts/

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

GOD-TRACKING IS DEALING WITH REBELLION BEFORE EXPECTING A BLESSING

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18 March 2016

Dear God-tracker

GOD-TRACKING IS DEALING WITH REBELLION BEFORE EXPECTING A BLESSING

Psalm 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favour is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Maggie drew me aside after church one morning. “You said today that the Bible says God’s compassion is new every morning and that God desires to bless us every day,” she said. “Well, I don’t feel blessed when I wake up in the mornings. Every day I get up it feels like the world is on my shoulders. There is so much turmoil in my life, I feel like God has abandoned me.”

Indeed, I had brought a word about God’s compassion during worship that morning, quoting from the book of Lamentations that tells us God’s love never ceases and his compassion is new to us each morning we wake up. Yet, what Maggie had failed to realise was the fact that the prophetic book of Lamentations was written as a lament by a Godly man, while his people were in exile to Babylon. Around AD 605 God executed judgement on Judah because of their idolatrous rebellion. Judah had rejected God’s call to seek him and his warnings of pending judgement, brought through prophets like Jeremiah. Jeremiah warned his people that if they did not return to God with a pure heart, God would raise up their enemy against them. Sadly, the people ignored the warnings and, persecuting Jeremiah, continued in their rebellion. So God raised up the Babylonians to come against Judah.

Lamentations was probably also written by Jeremiah, but during the exile to Babylon. These words were most likely written while God’s people were under God’s discipline for their rebellion. Lamentations is a woeful cry about the agony they faced after losing their homes and liberty. Nebuchadnezzar was a ruthless and violent ruler. The Jews were abused and forced into labour under his rule. However, it was under this discipline of Father God that they were drawn back to God in repentance. After 70 years God raised up the likes of Ezra and Nehemiah to bring them back home to Jerusalem. It was during the height of this suffering that the prophet writes, “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning,” and, “The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”

I tried to gently explain to Maggie that God’s love is indeed, enduring and his compassion is revealed to us new every morning. However, sometimes, because of our rebellious ways or disobedience to his instructions, we open ourselves to the enemy’s attacks, just as Judah was attacked by their enemy because of their disobedience. Sometimes, it is not God who is to blame for not blessing us it is we who have stepped out from under his blessings, because of our apathy and indifference to his commands. I tried to clarify to Maggie that, instead of blindly claiming God’s blessings, she should ask him why she felt abandoned by him. Perhaps she was enduring her own little exile, because she had ignored his word to her.

Just as ancient Judah needed to repent of her rebellion and turn back to seeking God with a pure heart (as seen through the writings of Lamentations), so too we all need to repent of our rebellion and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. And he will bless those who seek him with clean hands and a pure heart.

God-tracking is dealing with rebellion before expecting a blessing

God bless you

Dudley

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Jeremiah 34:1-5

Lamentations 3

Psalm 24

Don’t Give Up, Look Up!

Help me to step out in faith to receive your blessing as I now seek you with all my heart

Pray
“Father God, I know that you love me. I know that it is your desire to bless me and I know that all things work out for my good, in Christ. But I still feel as though you have abandoned me. It seems that every morning I don’t have joy. However, I realise now that one thing that inhibits your blessing in my life in my rebellion. Dear God, I am sorry. I repent of all the things I have said, done or even though in my mind that has grieved your Spirit. I’m sorry for not obeying your instructions. Please forgive me for my indifference and my apathy toward your calling. Help me to step out in faith to receive your blessing as I now seek you with all my heart. Amen."

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