God's Assignment
"My God will provide for all of your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:19
Have you ever been in a situation where, unless God intervenes, your business would perish? We have been, last week.
God provided for us in the wonderful and amazing way, just as He said He would. You see, the Bible is true. It is the very word of God. But you have to believe it for it to be effective in your life. Hebrews 11:6 tells us"Without faith, it is impossible to please God."Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen."
How have you structured your business? Have you carefully sought God's plan for your business? Has He told you things that seemed very risky? Has your response to those things been: "I could never do that"? Because of that observation, have you shied away from what He was telling you to do?
You see, that is a correct observation - you cannot do it without Christ doing it through you (John 15:5).
But either Philippians 4:13 is true: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," or it is not. If it is true, then we can never say "no" to God's command because we cannot do it. We have to stand on the foundation of faith and say "yes" to the assignment He has for us, sometimes with trembling hands. Now, if it is our idea, God has no obligation to provide for us nor bless us in it. He blesses His assignments, not our plans.
God's assignments will always be God-sized. A good way to tell that the assignment is from Him is that we will not be able to do it on our own.
As we accept the assignment and move out in faith - believing His command is true and His promises are true, we will find ourselves moving well beyond our comfort zone. We will find ourselves moving beyond visible support. We will find ourselves moving into a position where, unless God intervenes and provides for us, the business will perish.
That is exactly where God wants us to be – totally and unequivocally dependent on Him. As we trust Him in such a circumstance, He can now do anything through us He chooses to do.
Then we come to experience Him in a whole new way. We come to experience Him demonstrating the faithfulness and truthfulness of His promises.
The Bible comes alive to us in a way it never has before. And we come to experience God doing things through us we never could have imagined.
Are you ready to say "yes" to God's impossible command? Are you ready to embrace the impossible and praise Him for it?
God provided for us in the wonderful and amazing way, just as He said He would. You see, the Bible is true. It is the very word of God. But you have to believe it for it to be effective in your life. Hebrews 11:6 tells us"Without faith, it is impossible to please God."Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen."
How have you structured your business? Have you carefully sought God's plan for your business? Has He told you things that seemed very risky? Has your response to those things been: "I could never do that"? Because of that observation, have you shied away from what He was telling you to do?
You see, that is a correct observation - you cannot do it without Christ doing it through you (John 15:5).
But either Philippians 4:13 is true: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," or it is not. If it is true, then we can never say "no" to God's command because we cannot do it. We have to stand on the foundation of faith and say "yes" to the assignment He has for us, sometimes with trembling hands. Now, if it is our idea, God has no obligation to provide for us nor bless us in it. He blesses His assignments, not our plans.
God's assignments will always be God-sized. A good way to tell that the assignment is from Him is that we will not be able to do it on our own.
As we accept the assignment and move out in faith - believing His command is true and His promises are true, we will find ourselves moving well beyond our comfort zone. We will find ourselves moving beyond visible support. We will find ourselves moving into a position where, unless God intervenes and provides for us, the business will perish.
That is exactly where God wants us to be – totally and unequivocally dependent on Him. As we trust Him in such a circumstance, He can now do anything through us He chooses to do.
Then we come to experience Him in a whole new way. We come to experience Him demonstrating the faithfulness and truthfulness of His promises.
The Bible comes alive to us in a way it never has before. And we come to experience God doing things through us we never could have imagined.
Are you ready to say "yes" to God's impossible command? Are you ready to embrace the impossible and praise Him for it?
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