Is Your Faith Pure?

Need OR Want

Good OR Bad

Right OR Wrong

Balanced OR Wavering

God OR Satan

Pure OR Evil

Need OR Want

I sat down to read in the book of Jeremiah from the Bible yesterday, however instead of reading, I was drawn to start writing.  As the words came to me, I wrote. I want to share the words I was inspired to write.

In Seeking understanding of God, I discovered true, pure Faith.  I thought I had, had faith and believed.  Oh, thou Peter of your own faith, you say you believe but when you are tested you fail and while failing you cry out to OUR FATHER to save and forgive you.  Why should He save you?  Continuously save you?  Pure Faith is knowing and having an understanding without being able to prove the results, AND being willing to sacrifice what you know and understand for the belief in your faith. Most people miss the second part or say they will until they have too. Are you willing to defend your Faith with your life?  Would you take the mark of the beast so you can eat and live, OR are you willing to go to prison or be killed as an example? If this happened today, right now, which side do you fall?

Seek understanding, Read the Bible, Memorize Scripture, Listen to Worship and Praise Music, Bless the Lord for everything you experience or touch, Pray for those less fortunate than you, serve others, live as an example, be still and Listen, Listen, Listen, and your faith will build like a solid Rock Foundation.  Each person must experience their own “born again” moment.  The moment you realize you were doing everything the wrong way, and God finally opens your eyes. 

Jeremiah 18:12  “And they said, “There is no hope:  but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.” 

Jeremiah 18:11b  “Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:  return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.”

You have to commit first.  To show that you are ready, you must make the first move.

A dog will urge his master for the needs the dog knows the master can provide. God is waiting for you to show you trust and believe.  Then…  God will test you.  If you pass, he will provide ONLY enough to get to the next test.  The more test of Faith that you pass, the more God will begin to bless your life.  God will begin to create the life you desire, and your desires may change as your understanding increases.

When satan comes for you, you won’t be sitting in church with your brothers and sisters of faith to support you.  Satan will attack each of us individually at our weakness and break us down.  Then have us sympathize for each other, OR have us team up to enjoy our sins together in groups or clubs.  Sin is not always the terrible stuff.  Sin is anything that distracts attention from God.  Faith is the only thing that will pull you into the next level of understanding.  Faith in God , which is accompanied by your Fear in God is the only way to defeat satan.

Study Gods creation.  See how perfect and orderly; then believe.

Read God’s Word. Walk in God’s Instruction. Pass Test. Build Faith.  Satan will attach with wants and selfish desires.  God commands we take only what we need.  Break every decision down to a need or a want.

Do you need morning meal?  Yes

Do you need poptart, sugar cereal, and a donut?  No

You only need a healthy good size meal to provide you with the strength to perform God’s Will.  We want unhealthy foods and 3 meals a day.  We want sports, theater, movies, shows, and plays, to entertain us.  We want to have money and be successful in the eyes of other people.  We want to sleep in.  We want to drink alcohol and take drugs.  We want multiple clothing options.  We want everyone to be equal.  We want and want and want.  Our wants drive stress, irritability, anxiety, and depression.  Once you switch your focus from wants to needs all these symptoms start to fade away almost immediately.  You can not be anxious and grateful in the same moment. Begin to give God praise and thanks for everything always.

You must have faith and know God is going to save you.  That is what he does.  If you are in the Will of God you can not be late, you are on God’s time.  If the mortgage is not paid on the 1st, trust God will provide.  BUT ONLY if you are in and following the Will of God.

Jeremiah 23:23  “Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?”

God wants to do things with you; you could not do yourself.  He can NOT use you for his glory until you have pure faith.  He will lift you up so high that you will Fear the Lord.  You will Fear the Almighty Power of God.  You will Fear that your Faith is not strong enough and that you are not worthy of His abundance and blessings.  You will Fear that he could easily drop you and crush everything.  He that giveth can taketh away. 

But then it hit me.  I never had anything.  Everything has been provided by God.  So when I was thinking I was devout in my faith AND I was striving for success running the rat race of life, I was successful in the eyes of the world… The only thing I gave myself was stress, anxiety, and depression.  God has provided everything else, and He was letting me do my own thing.  As the years went on, I just continued to dig my hole deeper and deeper. 

Finally, I broke.  I could not do it on my own anymore.  I felt I had more to give but could not give it.  I drove deep into research trying to find answers.  I researched foods, creams, pills, workout routines, books, mentors, coaches, encyclopedias and articles for over 3 years until I finally came full circle. 

God was the answer.  God was always the answer. 

If you are struggling or stressed or anxious you must start being grateful to God for everything immediately.  Change your view on the world.  Change your view and opinions about yourself.  Begin to see yourself in a positive light.  Commit your life to God to be used as a tool in His special unknown works.  Choose need over want every time.  Satan will use your eyes and hears; so trust your heart. 

“Trust in the Lord with ALL YOUR HEART, Lean not on your own understanding, but in all thy ways acknowledge him and he will direct your path.”  Proverbs 3:5-6

This will NOT be easy

This does NOT Guarantee wealth, riches, popularity

You will receive abundance for your needs

You will Fear the Lord everyday

As you make conscious decisions to avoid your passed desires you will strengthen your relationship with God and God will bless you for your overcoming.  When challenges or tragedy come into your life, look through it for God’s Will.  Even if you can not understand, know there is a reason and a purpose.  God could use death to remove someone from this world before they encounter severe suffering in this world as a blessing from God.  God may have cured me of a life-threatening disease before it ever entered my body.  Can God not do these things?  Who are we to question God’s Will?

Trust in God. Believe in Your Creator.  Know your Savior.

Build your faith and seek understanding.  Take only what you need.  If God said, “It is” then nothing you see or hear will change what God said.  Listen for God.  Trust His Word.  Pass your tests.  Thank God for ALL the blessings of this peaceful, present moment.  Thank God for ALL the blessing of your future which you have yet to experience.  Live in the Blessing of our Father.  Fear the wrath of the Lord.  Judge yourself.  Live in Faith.  Walk in the Will of God. 

JEREMIAH 23:7 

“And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.