Do I Need to Forgive the Father? – Day 28
Truth: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! For when you did awesome things that we [...]
How Can You Stop Living Offended at God?
Here’s how to stop living offended at God. I’ll give you the means to not only heal the root wound that are the reason that you’re offended, I’ll give you tools to live daily live out being un-offended at God. We live in a world that was once the enemies. Jesus won the battle at [...]
What is Living Unoffended at God?
I’m in debt to Bill Johnson for giving me biblical words to express how we need to relate to God when things happen that just don’t make sense in light of His nature or character. John the Baptist declared the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, knowing the Anointed One would release the prisoners. But then he sat in prison and doubt started to set in. He sent his disciples to ask his cousin if he had gotten it wrong and Jesus responded: “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” Luke 7:22-23 (NKJV) John was sitting where he did not expect, facing something he did not want. We could almost say he had the right to be offended at Jesus. And Jesus said “happy is the one who is not offended because of Me.” Here’s how we can choose to live un-offended at the Father: Agree to live without what He withholds. Give Up Your Right To Understand so you can have the peace that passes understanding Look To What He’s Doing, not to what He hasn’t done. These [...]
To Avoid Bitterness You Need to Live Unoffended at the Father
The second key to avoiding bitterness as you hope at the end of the rope is living unoffended at the Father. We can so easily become offended at God. Many times we stand before God with a broken dream, unfulfilled vision or loss of a promise and it feels just like the plant we tended so carefully has just gone dry and withered. It has. But don’t let the seed go to waste. Until a seed is dead, no life can come from it. Once it dies, it can be planted in good soil, watered [...]
Agreeing to Live Without What God Withholds
Agreeing to live without what God withholds means letting the potter be the potter and recognize you are the clay. His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. He thinks generationally and eternally. We are short sighted and linear. It’s often best for us to simply be still and know that [...]
Forgiving the Father
I’ve often been asked if anyone ever needs to forgive God. That language makes me uncomfortable. Forgiveness is giving up our right for revenge. It’s putting the other into the hands of God. It’s His to avenge. He’s the one to repay. How can we put God in His own hands? How could we ever [...]
Share your thoughts..