god-s-will

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you will go after you're dead

I didn__ believe that God told some guy, however many thousands of years ago, __ey, build a ginormous boat in this desert over here._ I liked it as a story, though, because it seemed like the kind of thing God ought to say. There were crazy stupid things that needed to get done, or should have gotten done, or turned out to be wonderful when they did get done. And maybe, if God ever did tell people what to do, it was to stick up for these crazy stupid things that no one in their right mind would ever do otherwise.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

I used to feel spiritually inferior because I had not experienced the more spectacular manifestations of the Spirit and could not point to any bona fide __iracles_ in my life. Increasingly, though, I have come to see that what I value may differ greatly from what God values. Jesus, often reluctant to perform miracles, considered it progress when he departed earth and entrusted the mission to his flawed disciples. Like a proud parent, God seems to take more delight as a spectator of the bumbling achievements of stripling children than in any self-display of omnipotence. From God__ perspective, if I may speculate, the great advance in human history may be what happened at Pentecost, which restored the direct correspondence of spirit to Spirit that had been lost in Eden. I want God to act in direct, impressive, irrefutable ways. God wants to __hare power_ with the likes of me, accomplishing his work through people, not despite them.

I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.

They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

There is another life both for you and for me,_ said I. __f it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earthly passions; and you have a mother, and sisters, and friends who would be seriously injured by your disgrace; and I, too, have friends, whose peace of mind shall never be sacrificed to my enjoyment, or yours either, with my consent; and if I were alone in the world, I have still my God and my religion, and I would sooner die than disgrace my calling and break my faith with heaven to obtain a few brief years of false and fleeting happiness__appiness sure to end in misery even here__or myself or any other!

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don__ feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God__ greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems.Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God__ call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing!

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

We are scared to make mistakes, so we fret over figuring out God__ will. We wonder what living according to His will would actually look and feel like, and we are scared to find out. We forget that we were never promised a 20-year plan of action; instead, God promises multiple times in Scripture never to leave or forsake us. God wants us to listen to His Spirit on a daily basis, and even throughout the day _ My hope is that instead of searching for __od__ will for my life,_ each of us would learnt to seek hard after __he Spirit__ leading in my life today.

Everything that is online is not necessarily in line.

If you seek the presence of God, you will see the glory of God: