Our need and prayer should be, “Lord, help us to be faithful to the gifts, abilities, and opportunities you have given us according to the strength you give us. Then give us the grace and faith to leave the results to you. Col. 1:28-29
Where there is faithfulness to do ones duty regardless of the results there is success in God’s sight. We are to be faithful to God and leave the results to Him.
Usually, the first idea that comes to mind when God is called faithful is that He keeps His promises. That God is faithful means that His character is unchangingly consistent. God Himself is the model we must study for examples of faithfulness to encourage us to trust and to emulate Him. Paul (I Thessalonians & II Timothy) had proved it in a thousand struggles; he found that, when all was said and done, God had never failed him.
This is one of my testimonies, of what I know of God’s faithfulness. I always had these recurring scary dreams. The waves in the sea would come from all angles and I would see myself drowning. With every passing year, it just got worst.
This was six years back. I don’t remember this person. All, I know is as she was getting off the vehicle, she just said, no matter what happens don’t give up. And I thought that was weird. But, I thanked her any way.
on the way home, passing by the hospital, there was that eerie feeling. I saw myself being there and I was the very next day. Reaching home, its nearly midnight, I meet a family friend, an aunt, in the building, and she just gives me this hug. All these things and I know and feel something in my heart. I come home and recount all the incidents to my cousin.
The next, day everything in my world collided. My younger brother met with an accident and went to be with the Lord. It was the most painful time. I felt completely lost. But God, remembered me always. He had taught me to watch for signs and He had built in me the resilience to bear everything that would come my way. What, I have learned over time, is to be obedient and to walk on the path He tells me to.
This was six years back. I don’t remember this person. All, I know is as she was getting off the vehicle, she just said, no matter what happens don’t give up. And I thought that was weird. But, I thanked her any way.
on the way home, passing by the hospital, there was that eerie feeling. I saw myself being there and I was the very next day. Reaching home, its nearly midnight, I meet a family friend, an aunt, in the building, and she just gives me this hug. All these things and I know and feel something in my heart. I come home and recount all the incidents to my cousin.
The next, day everything in my world collided. My younger brother met with an accident and went to be with the Lord. It was the most painful time. I felt completely lost. But God, remembered me always. He had taught me to watch for signs and He had built in me the resilience to bear everything that would come my way. What, I have learned over time, is to be obedient and to walk on the path He tells me to.
Of what value would the promises of God be without His faithfulness? And of what value would we be to God and to our families without faithfulness? Absolutely none! The faithful person is one who can be counted on at all times, no matter how bad the situation. In today’s world the willingness to be faithful and to continue on, or in spite of the circumstances, must be appreciated.
God is not like man; He does not begin a work and leave it undone. He never gives up. Men do this, but God never stops until He is finished. He does not finish until He is satisfied. He does not simply create and then leave His creations to their own ways. His obligation to all life and its care and sustenance continues unabated.
Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters subsided. Genesis 8:1
Noah, his family and animals were imprisoned in the ark for months, sailing about alone on an endless sea. Noah could have easily thought himself as forgotten. Though he could remind himself that God had promised him protection, where was God now—wherever he looked he saw only empty waters and a sky that seemed to hold no hope?
We all have been drifting in the sea of problems, for a very long time. And at those times, it is natural to wonder if God is watching and does He hear and know the pain, we feel? Would God, know what it feels like being abandoned? In my last topic, I did mention, Jesus in Gethsemane Garden
Back, to the topic, GOD NEVER FORGETS. God never forgot Noah. He will never forget us, ever. The story of the Flood does not end on a note of hopelessness. The Floods went down. Mountaintops appeared, and the ark came to rest. Noah and his family resumed life on God’s green Earth.
Does God speak and not act? Understand that when God's Word goes forth, it accomplishes what He sent it to do. God's promises are sure. He never deceives, and there is never any inconsistency in Him. He is always true. He is called 'The Old Faithful'.
Because God is faithful, the strength to be faithful is promised to us. Always, work your way to be faithful.
REMEMBER: To those who feel lost in the depth of an ongoing trial, We are not lost to God.
If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
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