Always Learning

I have been doing some reading and studying lately and have discovered some really good stuff. I love to learn and especially when it involves my Faith Walk.

Joyce Meyer said on her show a while back, We always say that God does not give us what we can't handle. Then she chuckled and said, He ALWAYS gives us more than we can handle, but He will ALWAYS provide the strength to do it! We have to trust in Him and move out of the way, let Him steer the boat. Wow! I never thought of it that way.

God needs us to be His living testimony to the salvation He offers us. We need to be set free from the baggage of our pasts, healed and delivered so God can use us. He is the Potter, we are the Clay! He molds us and makes us. Don't let your 'junk' hold God back.

Each act of believing God and being obedient to Him results in greater opportunities in our lives. Accept the challenges in your lives to learn and grow. God wants us to be influential in His Kingdom.

1 Peter 1
vs. 3-9
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
vs. 13 - 16
Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
vs. 23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
AMEN!