GOD IS OUR FATHER NOT OUR PUPPET
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the OBEDIENCE of Christ;
If you have a want or need, YOU WILL NOT get all that you want by, clicking 'Amen' to a post. You will not even necessarily get it by simply claiming it in "Jesus name." You will not get it by thinking positive and sending out (so-called) positive thoughts. Angels of God are not going to get busy to fulfill your desires because you emailed a message to 12 people. As a matter of fact, it is when you surrender to God and want what He wants, what He says, as He directs and you are in obedience to Him that your every need will be met.
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY him;
Acts 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that OBEY him.
Romans 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not OBEY the truth, but OBEY unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Those who will not obey the truth do not get what they want either because they do particular gestures nor because they demand, try to get angels to help them acquire it, or throw temper tantrums to get it. This only brings on them God's indignation, wrath and chastisement.
GOD IS NOT A FAIRY GOD-MOTHER!
You are the servant of who you obey. If you obey the leadings of Satan and seek your own way rather than God's, you will be self-serving and Satan serving. Such does not bring you the blessings of God.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to OBEY, his servants ye are to whom ye OBEY; whether of sin unto death, or of OBEDIENCE unto righteousness?
Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not OBEY the truth?
2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man OBEY NOT our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
God loves to give good gifts to His children, to those who love and obey Him.
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
But it is the 'GOOD GIFTS' He wants to give. Not what we think is good for us, but what He 'knows' is good for us. HE IS OUR FATHER NOT OUR PUPPET! He knows what is best for us. Spoiling us by granting our wishes while we walk in irresponsibility and disobedience is not what a truly loving father does. But a loving father will correct and give consequences to the child he loves and who he wants to learn what is important and necessary in life.
Hebrews 12:6-7 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Yield first to God as the head and authority in your life. Respect and obey His Words. Love the Lord. He wants you to increase in love more than in material things.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the PATIENT WAITING for Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:12[ And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
WAIT ON THE LORD WITH PATIENCE
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with PATIENCE wait for it.
Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and PATIENCE inherit the promises.
Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of PATIENCE, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
James 1:3-4 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh PATIENCE.
4 But let PATIENCE have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
God knows what you have need of even before you ask. Sometimes He may need for you to learn obedience, faith, and patience before giving you the thing you are focused on getting. He hears your cries. Let Him guide you and meet your needs as He sees them and knows what is best for you. Let Him truly be your Father and trust in His love.
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Matthew 6:7-8 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Let us purify our souls and see what our loving Father God will do in our lives!
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in OBEYING the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
