Jesus wants to be the object of your hope and trust!

8/29/2018

Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Psalm 40:4 NKJV

God is the ultimate authority over creation. He does have opposition. That does not diminish His authority. There is one exception to His total control over all things. God gave us free will. He allows us to make our own decisions.

The most important decision we can make is to live in relationship with Jesus. We decide if we will receive and return His love or reject it. The Lord will not violate our free will.

What does it mean for a person to make the Lord His or her hope and trust? It means trusting Jesus to maintain our relationship with Him. It means trusting Jesus to be faithful when we are not.

We must learn to trust Jesus to be strong when we are weak. Me must learn to trust our lives to Jesus regardless of our circumstances and mood swings. Our relationship with Jesus is based on His goodness and faithfulness not ours.

We all have flaws in our character!

I want to be a faithful and obedient disciple of Christ. I want to seek Jesus and love Him. I want to share the love of God with people who do not know Him. I fail to live up to the righteous standards of a Holy God.

All it takes is a bad night sleep a disagreement with a family member or the cashier at taco bell to get my order wrong and I am distracted from God’s call to be Holy. A headache cold or missing my daily dose of caffeine and I am really thrown for a loop.

God is looking for people who have a sincere desire to know Him. He is looking for men and women who desire holiness. Jesus wants us to love Him with all our heart soul and strength.

Jesus wants us to trust Him to meet our needs. He wants us to trust Him to guide us through life. Jesus wants us to trust Him to lead us into His presence!

Make Jesus the object of your hope and trust. Do not follow proud and arrogant people who teach thinly veiled lies. Be blessed through faith in Jesus Christ!

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Louie Garcia

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Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour. Acts 16:16-18 NKJV

The slave girl was speaking the truth. She was possessed by an evil spirit. The evil spirit was drawing people away from Christ!

This attack came as God’s servants went to prayer. The enemy of our souls attacks when we step out in faith. Satan seeks to distract us. He wants us to focus our attention on things other than Jesus.

The devil perverts the truth. He uses it against us. No one can serve two masters. This girl was speaking the truth about Paul and his companions while practicing witchcraft. When people claim to speak for God we must consider how they live.

The girl followed the disciples for several days before they cast the demon out of her. It is important for us to wait on the Lord before stepping out in faith. The bible tells us Paul was greatly annoyed by this girl. Paul was not fearful. The Lord was with Him!

Paul and Silas were put in jail. The owners of the slave girl were angry at the loss of income when the demon was cast out of her. While Paul and Silas were in jail they shared the gospel with the jailer. His entire household was saved.

God uses Satan’s attacks for His glory and our salvation!

Satan is a real being. He takes people captive to do his will. There really are demons who seek to destroy God’s people and bring destruction to our world.

We have nothing to fear from the devil or his demons when we live according to God’s will. We have nothing to fear from anyone or anything when we step out in faith to serve Jesus!

Jesus wants us to fear Him and Him alone. He wants us to know His power and authority are unequaled in all of creation.

God wants you share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the people in your life. Jesus wants you to walk in great boldness because He is with you everywhere you go!

Jesus can use you to shake the foundations of the prison and set people free!

Jesus wants to be the object of your hope and trust!

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