Grace and Peace to all who read this,
First of all, I want to thank you all for your prayers and support. Your intercession has meant so much and it has helped me grow spiritually and stay focused on being a vessel to let the Lord do what He wants through us.
Secondly, I am compelled to write about how to ask the Lord to fight for you.
When you are choosing a righteous life, you will undergo a series of tests.
If you are growing spiritually, the Lord will prepare you for the tests through His Word. Similar to the physical realm- you go to school and read about a subject and then you are tested on it.
Now, our testings come in our day to day life, particularly with our interactions with others. It easy to be holy and righteous when you are alone in solitude, but when you are in society, in the workplace, at school, etc. this is where you will be stretched to mature and the testing process really begins.
How do you pass each test? When adversity comes, how can you ask the Lord to fight for you while you hold your peace?
Here are some basics that I have found. In Part 2, I will give Biblical scenarios to the following in a week or so (I am currently pressed for time). Here goes:
1. Submit your life to the Lord and His Will
2. If you have any sin/trangressions, repent and ask the Lord to help you
overcome them.
3. Read His Word and pray... then ACT on it... do what it says
4. When faced with adversity, ask the Lord to fight for you as you hold your peace. (see Exodus 14:14)
Continue to operate by the Fruits of the Spirit to others and you will see the Lord fight on your behalf. This works. Remember, to do your part after the above 4 steps by operating in the Fruits of the Spirit. (see Galatians 5:22-23). Do not speak ill of others. Bless them and forgive them. Find ways to love them when they rise against you. If you try to retaliate in your own strength and in the flesh you will lose your peace and righteousness. Hold your tongue against them and you will hold your peace.
Remember, whatever we reap, we shall sow. If you speak ill of others, they will speak ill of you. Bless others, and they will bless you. Love others and they will love you.
I pray you are growing in your spiritual journey as well and I speak a soft heart and ears that hear so this seed will bear fruit in your life.
Til next time,
Sis K.D.
I am going to include a series in this blog moving forward for the intellectuals and the skeptics out there. Sometimes, I run across these types and short of praying for them and continuing to reflect Christ in my words and actions, there's not too much else I can do because the Bible says the devil blinds them.. they have spiritual scales over their eyes so they can not see. 2 Corinthians 4:4
For the first entry in this series, I"d like to show how even NASA references the Bible in their work with space.
For the believers, I hope this makes you smile. For unbelievers, I pray this is a seed planted in your spirit and that ultimately, you will see the Living God and you will see that the Bible is infallible and 100% true.
Love,
Sis K.D.......
NASA & THE BIBLE- in Agreement!
I thought this was pretty amazing and interesting!
For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible, here's something that shows Yahweh's awesome creation, and that He is still in control.
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called 'myth' in the Bible is true?
Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development.
'I think one of the most amazing things that has Yahweh done for us today happened recently to our ast ronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland .
They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now. We have to know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbits.
We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down.
They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong with either the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out, and they said, 'What's wrong?' Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time.
They scratched their heads and tore their hair out. There was no answer.
Finally a Christian man on the team said, 'You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, 'Show us, '
He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense.'
There they found the Yahweh saying to Joshua,
'Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before Thee.'
Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy! And if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Yahweh to make the sun stand still! That's right... 'The sun stood still and the moon stayed and lasted not to go down about a whole day!'
(Joshua 10:12-13)
The astronauts and scientists said, There is the missing day! They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes. not a whole day.
They read the Bible, and there it was about [approximately] a day. These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble
1000 years from now.
Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS.
The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?'
Hezekiah said, 'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees.' Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes!'
Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe! Isn't it amazing?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.
Forward this to as many people who you believe would think this is equally as cool. If Yahweh could do this then; how much more can he do for us today. If we only believe in his word. Never be afraid to try something new.
