What has the Lord been teaching you lately??

[bzmomo7]

Lately, the Lord has been teaching me through His Word how to submit more to Him. I had been letting the devil clOBber me on a couple of personal things and when I asked the Lord for help, this is the verse He gave to me:

James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." I had remembered the last part of the verse, but did not meet that first qualifier to "submit". I am so greatful for the Lord's patience in showing me, once again my errors, that I must get rid of all pride and submit to Him fully in every single area of my life. These are great verses:

James 4:6-10 "6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."

and

1 Peter 5:6-11

6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

8Be sOBer, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

11To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


What has the Lord been teaching you lately??

[blossom]

bzmomo7 thank you for that post. It is something I have to learn and now will rethink a recent decision I made on a issue affecting me. I know this is what the Lord gave you but it rang a cord with me and I will be praying about it.

Other than that I have been thinking about this passage in Corinthians

2Corinthians 12

8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.


I have a desire deep within my heart to have more children. I have always wanted lots of children and we have been blessed with two. Despite many years of trying we have not fallen again. I cannot understand why the Lord would close my womb and still give me such a strong desire to have more kids.

If you could pray for me on this matter I would really appreciate it and I will be praying for you.

Blossom

[Seth Doty]

To be patient I think. I had been somewhat grieved for a while that I still don't have any solid direction or guidance from the Lord about what I should do with my life long term. Because I don't have any direction from the Lord in this area I am bouncing around a bit with few longterm goals and heading no place in particular. Like most people I would rather have a known goal to work towards if the choice were mine. Anyway, while I was praying for direction this passage came into my mind.

Acts 7:22-23 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

What the Lord showed me there was that God spent a long time getting Moses ready for what he wanted him to do. It was apparently forty years before he started to understand what Gods eventual plan for his life would be and it was another forty years after that before God deemed him ready and the proper time came for him to start the work God had been preparing him for all along. I am not Moses of course and hopefully I will receive some direction before I am forty but his life was a good encouragement to me to trust and wait patently for eventual direction no matter how long it takes. I take the fact that the Lord laid these verses and thoughts on my heart to mean that he doesn't plan to show me what he wants me to do eventually just yet and until then I should just take things on step at a time.

[1Timothy115]

Humility.

[bzmomo7]

bzmomo7 thank you for that post. It is something I have to learn and now will rethink a recent decision I made on a issue affecting me. I know this is what the Lord gave you but it rang a cord with me and I will be praying about it.

Other than that I have been thinking about this passage in Corinthians

2Corinthians 12

8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.


I have a desire deep within my heart to have more children. I have always wanted lots of children and we have been blessed with two. Despite many years of trying we have not fallen again. I cannot understand why the Lord would close my womb and still give me such a strong desire to have more kids.

If you could pray for me on this matter I would really appreciate it and I will be praying for you.

Blossom

Of course, I will keep you in my prayers, Blossom. It is my hope that this thread will keep on going like the fun and games threads do, as a testimony to our wonderful Lord and to give Him the glory. My husband remarked to me the other day that so often people talk about everything BUT how the Lord is working in their life....that is what gave me the idea.

[blossom]

I think it is a great idea. We have a similiar thread in online Baptist Ladies under the accountability thread.

[blossom]

I have a good friend who is unsaved. It is has been on my heart for awhile now to cool the friendship a little because of the inevitable influence the unsaved have on 1. me and 2. my children. Last night the kids and I prayed for a message on Sunday morning that would speak to our hearts and give us something we could work on in our lives. Lo and behold, the message was on, "Who are we friends with" Ouch.

I know it should be a no brainer. And yes here comes all the typical reasons, they are my friends etc. It is going to leave a big hole in our lives. We spend a fair bit of time together, the kids play, we going swimming together etc. She is a good friend but not a Godly one. It is sad for me to have to do what I know I should.

I guess the lesson from God is to lean on him more and less on people in my life. I have no family here and it is a very little church we attend. Most of the families are related so we are peripheral at best. Please don't get me wrong the church is excellent and the Pastor and his wife are excellent.

As much as I love the Lord answering my prayers, I wish He would have a picked a less painful thing.