If you have the time today, I would ask for your prayers. I've been struggling a lot lately, and I know that God is at work. Please pray for my heart - that God would take away the unbelief. To remove the blinders from my eyes and heart and to give me the child-like faith I need. The child-like faith to know in my heart that his death on the cross was for me personally. To move head knowledge to heart knowledge. I have so much trouble with this. Yet in His faithfulness he has sent five people to me with similar messages this week. I want more than anything to be the good soil that the seed of the Good News is sown on. Thank you.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
I'm praying brother, be strong!
I'm praying for you, Eric!
Jennifer
Eric, I just posted this on one of my blogs but I wanted to send it to you as well (just in case you hadn't read it.) Here you go....
You Have Captured God's Heart
from "When Christ Comes"
by Max Lucado
Just look at the gifts he has given you: He has sent his angels to care for you, his Holy Spirit to dwell in you, his church to encourage you, and his word to guide you. You have privileges only a fiancée could have. Anytime you speak, he listens; make a request and he responds. He will never let you be tempted too much or stumble too far. Let a tear appear on your cheek, and he is there to wipe it. Let a love sonnet appear on your lips, and he is there to hear it. As much as you want to see him, he wants to see you more.
He is building a house for you. And with every swing of the hammer and cut of the saw, he’s dreaming of the day he carries you over the threshold. “There are many rooms in my Father’s house; I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you. After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me so that you may be where I am” (John 14:2–3).
You have been chosen by Christ. You are released from your old life in your old house, and he has claimed you as his beloved. “Then where is he?” you might ask. “Why hasn’t he come?”
There is only one answer. His bride is not ready. She is still being prepared.
Engaged people are obsessed with preparation. The right dress. The right weight. The right hair and the right tux. They want everything to be right. Why? So their fiancée will marry them? No. Just the opposite. They want to look their best because their fiancée is marrying them.
The same is true for us. We want to look our best for Christ. We want our hearts to be pure and our thoughts to be clean. We want our faces to shine with grace and our eyes to sparkle with love. We want to be prepared.
Why? In hopes that he will love us? No. Just the opposite. Because he already does.
You are spoken for. You are engaged, set apart, called out, a holy bride. Forbidden waters hold nothing for you. You have been chosen for his castle. Don’t settle for one-night stands in the arms of a stranger.
Be obsessed with your wedding date. Guard against forgetfulness. Be intolerant of memory lapses. Write yourself notes. Memorize verses. Do whatever you need to do to remember. “Aim at what is in heaven . . . Think only about the things in heaven” (Col. 3:1–2). You are engaged to royalty, and your Prince is coming to take you home.
Doubt is not the same as unbelief. Doubts are obsticals to faith; unbelief is a resistance to faith.
Unbelief chokes off the possibility that God can act and fails to recognize it when God does. Unbelief often springs from the recognition that if I accept a certain truth about God I will have to live in accordance with that truth.
Both our life of prayer and relationship with God can be disrupted( or fail to grow in the first place) because of unbelief and unconfessed sin.
I have been where you are. I will pray for you.
Eric,
Here's another little something for you today....
"Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am He, I am He who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you."
Isaiah 46:4
Jennifer
To Anonymous: How did God get you out of the predicament?
Eric, I had to pray hard and ask God to forgive my sins and open my eyes to him. I had to get to a point where I gave myself to him completely. It is hard to admit that you can't do it on your own. And you think that you can't live up to it. But I found out that with prayer (and alot of it,) things became easier, my doubts began to fade, I began to see God working in my life. You have to understand that God's time is not the same as ours. A year to us is a blink to him. We want results NOW and we will get impatient waiting, but i'm sure he has been impatient waiting for us to come to our senses.
It is hard to believe that he loves us so much and will always forgive us, because we know how hard it is for us as humans to forgive. But he will and does forgive. I think I had a hard time with this because I could not forgive myself. I did'nt feel worthy of his forgiveness.
I will pray for you Eric that He may open your eyes the way he did mine and fill your heart with his love. Pray Eric and ask him to lift away the doubt you have and to forgive you and help you forgive yourself. My life is still not what I would like for it to be, but God has a plan for me, I know this. Also, you have to understand that the bad in our life is not from God. It may be that we have made bad choices and are now having to deal with the consequences. There are always consequences to our actions.
In Christain Love
I forgot to put my name. It is Robin Church
Post a Comment