Sift Your Motives

From the book God at Eventide(www.twolisteners.org )

March 25 – Sift Your Motives

Walk in My Ways. Follow the path I have bidden you tread.

Humble yourselves before Me, and keep My laws, so shall you have perfect peace.

I am with you to give you the needed strength. Go forward unafraid. Grow in Grace, and in the knowledge of Me, your Master and your Friend. Count all the learning of earth’s wisest as nothing compared with the wisdom that I, your Lord, would show you.

Love and learn. You have much, very much to do for My Kingdom. So seek to become perfect. Sift your motives. All that is unworthy cast aside, uproot its inner growth.

You are freely forgiven. Forgive freely, largely, wonderfully.

Hoard Nothing

From the book God calling

 – Hoard Nothing

Love Me and do My Will. No evil shall befall you. Take no thought for tomorrow. Rest in My presence brings Peace. God will help you. Desire brings fulfillment. Peace like a quiet flowing river cleanses, sweeps all irritants away.

You shall be taught, continue these prayertimes, even if they seem fruitless. The devil will try by any means to stop them. Heed him not. He will say evil spirits may enter in. heed him not.

Rest your nerves. Tired nerves are a reflection on, not of, God’s Power. Hope all the time.

Do not be afraid of poverty. Let money flow freely. I will let it flow in but you must let it flow out. i never send money to stagnate – only to those who pass it on.  Keep nothing for yourself. Hoard nothing. Only have what you need and use. This is My Law of Discipleship.

Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him; 
and he shall bring it to pass.  Psalm 37:5

Who’s My Mentor ? ?

Some times i find no one to guide or to lead my spiritual life, at church there’s a youth leader, but it’s been a month since the group was made ,it’s supposed to be once a week, any way for the last month it was canceled each time because the leader is not availble or because someone is not coming because he had to travel for work for a while or something and we are not supposed to continue sessions with out him. anyway , this month i needed guidance the most, i was stumbling in so many ways, in so many issues , and since i needed help i couldn’t find, i prayed for God and asked who can help me ? , i am left alone, no one has time to help me ,to answer my questions, and i am having hard time now, i was astonished or shocked , because how can my spiritual life depends on someone or somepeople that at sometime they maynot be availble or here, i was sad actually and hopeless, many questions were in my mind and i couldn’t help it. Iam sure that many of you , feel the same, ( i hope you don’t actually ) but it’s  was the sad truth for me, no one is surrounding to help, the answer is in the following lines in psalm 119

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 97 Oh, how I love your law!
       I meditate on it all day long.

 98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
       for they are ever with me.

 99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
       for I meditate on your statutes.

 100 I have more understanding than the elders,
       for I obey your precepts.

 101 I have kept my feet from every evil path
       so that I might obey your word.

 102 I have not departed from your laws,
       for you yourself have taught me.

 103 How sweet are your words to my taste,
       sweeter than honey to my mouth!

 104 I gain understanding from your precepts;
       therefore I hate every wrong path.

— notice with me the first verses :

 97 Oh, how I love your law!
       I meditate on it all day long.

– it  says here  ” I meditate on it all day long” the law which is God’s words to each one of us when one meditate on them (think of them, understand them, love them, hold them by his heart”- I am starting to get a clue-

 98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
       for they are ever with me.

– the commands of God are making me wise…

 99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
       for I meditate on your statutes.

– I have more insight than all my teachers

the writer is saying that he is having more insight than all his teachers for he mditates on God’ statutes 

 100 I have more understanding than the elders,
       for I obey your precepts.

he is having more understanding than the elders because he obey’s God’s precepts.

 

what God told me then, that my mentor is God himself, I do need a youth leader, i do need to have a group in the church , but God is not going to leave me alone ,God is not going to leave me as a leaf carried by the wind that has no one to collect , God saying I am not leaving you , i will take care of you ,i will tell you what to do through my words , my law , my statutes my precepts, Don’t worry  they will make you wise, it will give you sight, it will give you understanding,.

this is very beautiful from God, he is taking care of every one of us, when we ask him to be our mentor, it’s a great honour, a great chance to have a master a teacher who is God. so you can have God as your mentor, ask him , tell him God i want  you to teach me, i want to follow your law,your commands, your satutes, your preciepts because you will give me understanding , you will give me wisdom , you will  tell me what to do , and you will lead me through each day of my life through them , nothing is going to stop God’s love, God’s guidance, God’s parenthood from us, God’s love is unstopable,  even when you are left alone with no one to tell you what to do, God is there ,i prayed to God i told him what to do , i have no one to take care of me, but God answered through his words telling me i am taking care of you, pray to God to take care of you , to lead you , to be your mentor, to support you, his love is incredible , his love is so pure and complete,. actually i am going to take it as for all time, take that God is my mentor, i do need  the youth group and the youth leader, God is going to talk to me through them ,God is the source, if the words of the leader is not from God, they are useless, God is the source, God is the mentor, however things are bad at your group or something, God is always here , God is the source, I am going to ask God every day to be my mentor , to lead me, to tell me what to do, to help me  and answer my questions, God gave us a precious gift which is the holy bible, it’s God message for each one of us every day a specific message for each one of us every day ,every minute, for every thought and every challenge and every questions. Let’s not forget that God is the great teacher , he is all in all , and he is my and your mentor.

if you want God to teach you , please pray right now, aks him to be your father ,your love, your salvation and your teacher, tell him i want you, i open my heart for you to love ,to lead and to guide me through my life. tell him all your fears, all your questions, becuase he has all the love, all the courage, all the wisdom, all the power and all the answers.

Don’t worry we are God’s sons and daughters, he loves us, he is our father, he is taking care of us, don’t let fear  slip into your heart, remember that God is mighty to save, and he is stronger than any circumstances or any problems or difficulities, remeber that your lord has conquered the grave, created the heaven and the earth , he can take care of each one of us, and he loves to do so, believe him ,blieve his words, and ask him to be in your life.

God bless you all.

How to pray

Praying to God is a very important thing in your relationship with him ,prayer is the link or the line of contact , prayer is the moments when you touch God, when you  talk to him , when you open up your heart to him , and when you hear his voice, hear his advices, hear his  love, hear his answers for your questions, quiet time is the time you touch God, there is a way  i was taught at the church, on how to pray to God,

i must open up to God, i should ask him to teach me how to pray, prayer is not only talk, it’s feelings that maybe can’ be expressed by words, Prayer gives you the strength , gives you the healing, and it gives you God,

open up to God , open up your heart to him ,your thoughts, your fears, your doubts, your pains, your weakness, your hopes, your hurts, everything, you can cry to God, it’s not weakness it’s an expression of deep feelings, Jesus loves you and he wants to embrace you.

and if you can’t find words to say to jesus, tell him give me those words, teach me to express my feelings, and my needs, let me see myself as you see me, teach me how to pray.

the psalms are a very beautiful prayers to God,

in psalms 4 David says

 1 Answer me when I call to you,
       O my righteous God.
       Give me relief from my distress;
       be merciful to me and hear my prayer.

 2 How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame  ?
       How long will you love delusions and seek false gods  ?
       Selah

 3 Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;
       the LORD will hear when I call to him.

 4 In your anger do not sin;
       when you are on your beds,
       search your hearts and be silent.
       Selah

this is a part of the psalm, don’t just say those words without feelings, or without understanding, take the words from David’s mouth and say them from your heart, at the start he says

Answer me when I call to you,
       O my righteous God.
       Give me relief from my distress;
       be merciful to me and hear my prayer. 

you can say, Jesus, i want you to answer me , i want you to hear my call and reply me back, i want to hear your answer, God you are righteous, your are loving, you are pure, I am stressed, and i need your help, i am facing difficulities and i want your help, i know you can relief me from my distress, if i don’t have enough faith   , then grant it to me, give me your faith, God you are merciful , you are the one who loved me so that you died on the cross, hear my prayer, give me your peace .

 this is an example of how i and you can feel the words, just take every of the phrase and think about it, give it the space in your heart, give yourself the space to feel ,and you will find yourself expressing your feelings, the prayer of your heart, you will find God opening up your eyes, you will enjoy praying, you will enjoy being in the presence of God, and touching him, you will be able to see your needs, you will love God more and more

you can say everything in your mind and heart honestly to God

like  2 How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame  ?
       How long will you love delusions and seek false gods  ?
       Selah

say , jesus , many times i ruin myself, i turn the glory .the good gifts, the pure soul you gave to me into shame, i ruin my good work, Jesus i am asking you to help me, how more i am going to love the wrong ones, the wrong places, to love sin, to seek the false gods, (those gods in my life sometimes are money,lust, fame,sin, so here you can say your own fasle gods) here God is letting you see your false gods, your sins, the bad things that God doesn’t want them to be more longer in you.

 

 

You can feel the words and say it your way, what i wrote was my prayers, the words of God , those psalms, are dynamic, this is not the only way you can pray using psalms, it’s just a way, and you are going to express the  feelings of yours, not like me at all , you will find meanings and message from God specially to you, that are different from mine.

Jesus loves you , and if you ask him , he will teach you, because he wants and loves to.

jesus will give you the peace , the joy,the rest, the consolation, jesus will draw a smile on your face, you will no longer be alone with him, tell jesus about your work, your love, your car, everything, but remember tell him i want you , because Jessus is the real joy ,rest ,love and friend,

God bless you