Bethel Church LJ Podcast shadyoaks

 We recognize through this text that God’s miraculous intervention, God’s suddenly, often take more time than what we think, or we often give God the freedom to do in our lives. Like this widow woman, if we come to God for His help, we must also take Him at His Word and by faith walk it out to completely to see the fulness of His great promises and supernatural power come to pass in our lives as well.



But first seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.....Matthew 6:33



 

God brings light and order into darkness and chaos. What He did directly, He still does through His creation – you and me. As Abraham affected his world, so are we to do the same. We are not to allow the world to affect us like it did Lot; instead, we are to bring Heaven’s economy, the Kingdom of God into this earth and bring God’s light into this dark world in which we have been placed and sent forth into.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven....Matthew 6:10
 
 

1 John 5:11- And this the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his son.

Your walk with Christ should be even deeper and stronger than a tree rooted by a water source. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness. So many in this nation are living in a state of ungratefulness and a lack of thankfulness, I know why. They have no true relationship with Jesus Christ, God has not overlooked you God sees you right where you are.Let your lives be built on Him.
 

I  want to acknowledge the boldness and the courage of Micaiah to declare the Word in the midst of such a contrary situation. Although faced with opposition and certain dire consequences for speaking the truth of God’s Word, he did not acquiesce. He is a shining example to all who aspire to proclaim God’s Word. He is a model of what it truly means to be a faithful herald, preacher, and prophet of God. In the NT, the apostle Paul counseled Timothy as he faced mounting pressure and opposition. Paul himself was facing prison and death for his proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In spite of this he wrote to Timothy saying:
2 Ti 4:1–5 (NKJV) I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

When we face trials, we do not face them as the world faces them. When the world faces trials, peace is a subjective peace which finds its source in the absence of adverse circumstances. It is a peace that is based on feelings, when everything is good, I have peace.
The peace Jesus gives us is objective, it finds its source in the unbroken relationship we have with God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son! It is not dependent on circumstances or feelings, it is a reality in the Christian’s life by virtue of the blood that was shed, the redemption provided through the cross of Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God in Christ that is imputed to us by grace through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
And because of this assurance we have in Christ, we stand as a light in this world, a testimony that reflects the glory of God.