[mc id="757" type="audio"]Word of God For August 12 2009[/mc]

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August 12, 2009

Scripture verse of the day Ephesians 4:8 the Psalmist tells about this, for he says that when Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after his resurrection and victory over Satan, he gave generous gifts to men.

Scripture reading of the day first Thessalonians 4:1 — 12

let me add this, dear brothers: you already know how to please God in your daily living, for you know the commands we gave you from the Lord Jesus himself. Now we beg you — yes, we demand of you in the name of the Lord Jesus — that you live more and more closely to that ideal. For God wants you to be holy and pure, and to keep clear of all sexual sin so that each of you will marry in holiness and honor — not in lustful passion as the heathen do, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

And this also is God’s will: that you never cheat in this matter by taking another man’s wife, because the Lord will punish you terribly for this as we have solemnly told you before. God has not called us to be dirty-minded and full of lust, but to be holy and clean. If anyone refuses to live by these rules he is not disobeying the rules of men of God who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

But concerning the pure brotherly love that there should be among God’s people, I don’t need to say very much, I’m sure! For God himself is teaching you to love one another. Indeed, your love is already strong towards all the Christian brothers throughout your whole nation. Even so, dear friends, we beg you to love them more and more. This should be your ambition: to live a quiet life, minding your own business and doing your own work, just as we told you before.

As a result, people who are not Christians will trust and respect you, and you will not need to depend on others for enough money to pay your bills

Sam’s response

when we are in Christ we can replace the but and if’s in our lives with God’s command of shall and will. All of us have weaknesses that can only be perfected through Christ.

Living a godly life requires recognition of our brokenness and our sin. We must be willing to turn this over to God into allow the Holy Spirit to work through us to develop more Christ like character.

Yes, God has gifts for you and I that he is waiting to bestow upon us, but if we deny the Holy Spirit in our lives, we are denying God, and we are denying the opportunity to receive those gifts.

In reading Smith Wigglesworth today, he says “you must decide some things. If you are not baptized, you must seek the baptism of the Spirit of God. And if there is anything that is marred the fruit or interfered with all of his plan, I implore you to let the blood so cover, let the anointing of Christ so come, let the vision of Christ be so seen, that you will have a measure that will take all of that God has for you.”

God does perfect his people… he wants us to move beyond where we are at and move closer to Christ likeness.

The first step of this is to recognize that none of us are free from sin and weaknesses in our life that tempt us and pulls away from God.

Bring your sin and weakness to the foot of the cross and give it to God. Ask him to take away any thoughts or desires that are not pure and holy.

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