Find it!---In His Word-8-19-24
Do you feel
guilty when you find yourself failing to live up the standards you have been
given to follow in life? Don’t worry and get all bent out of shape about it
just change how you do things! If you cannot do that then change your thinking
by getting in the Word! Repent to God if it deems to be what is necessary and
then read in the Word how to fill your heart and mind with the things that will
make you walk the way God wants you to. God knew we were not going to be able
to be perfected by the Law, so He chose
to send Jesus to fix things with His own Spirit dying and reviving us along
with Him via Jesus’ resurrection! Wow! That is a mouthful, and I could stop
there but let’s get—In His Word!
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you] from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So, God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4
Sin wants to
control us, so when we slip up and lie, complain, or whatever other sin we commit.
Satan wants us to feel rotten and forget that freedom from sin is ours! God
knows how to fix it! He reminds us in His Word to repent. Admit we were wrong
to do whatever it was and ask God for forgiveness.
Those who
are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are
controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your
mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and
peace. For the sinful nature is always
hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the
control of their sinful nature can never please God. Romans 8:5-8
God takes control
from the sin, or rather He took the control on the cross! Sin has no control on
us when we are waking both in the Word and in His Spirit. We do this by
spending time reading the Word of God and filling our hearts and minds with the
things of God, not of this world.
Therefore,
dear brothers and sisters, you have no
obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die.
But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your
sinful nature, you will live. For all
who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. Romans 8:12-14
And the Holy
Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us
to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be
expressed in words. And the Father who
knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us
believers in harmony with God’s own will. And we know that God causes everything to work
together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his
purpose for them. Romans 26-28
He works it
all out, in His plan, His way. It may
not always seem like it but God loves us and He has a specific plan for
each of us to achieve. I think sometimes we wander off track occasionally and
He brings us back in line in His time, according to His will. Our part is to
keep reading, keep praying, keep staying connected so that we hear His Spirit
speak to our hearts and minds directing our paths.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s
love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are
persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are
killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these
things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am
convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor
life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries
about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth
below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the
love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:25-29
Nothing will
take us from God’s love. He will never leave us nor forsake us, and nothing can
come against us when we are walking in His love, in His Word and in His Spirit.
So, get in the Word today and study, read, glean from the old and new
testaments of life! Don’t get lazy about
it but spend time thinking on it, imagining what the people were doing and what
they looked like even.
Study to
show yourself approved by God!
Be diligent
to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Timothy 2:15
Get in the
Word today! Let’s challenge one another to look up the Words!
Pick one
below and look up all the verses you can find on the topic, then write what you
get from it! Think on the Word, pray the Word and ask God to help you understand it, in His Love.
Suggested
words to look up in the Bible: Direction, Guide, Follow, Repent, Forgiven,
loved.