Wednesday Musing

Why pray unless you believe that God answers your prayers. I was just thinking, what if there was 2 person, person A who has all immunity to getting sick from food X and person B who has no immunity. Both pray that God will sanctify the food for them. Wouldn't true faith be one of person B as there needs to be a total trust and faith and believe that God will sanctify the food? As apposed to person A who well already knows that there would be no problem, but just pray because its tradition. Anyway sorry i just think alot sometimes, so here is something for you to think about too.

Other random thoughts throughout the day:

- the King that hung with fishermen or rather the Creator of the universe choosing to hang with fishermen, born in a manger, humble mother, carpenter father.

- that the training we receive from the school of God Himself, not many people may understand. I was thinking of Noah, he must seem like a lunatic building a huge boat for many years, and when people asked Him what He was doing and if He said God told me too, people might most probably think he was a little koo koo. When God asked Abram to go and travel , start moving, yet not really knowing where He was to do too, and that He will be Father of nation though he was so old with no son. I can imagine people asking Him. " Abram you packed all your stuff, so... where are you going? "... and He may say " I don't know, God just asked me to start traveling "They might think he was koo koo too. What kind of man don't pre plan where he is going? As if God would ask anyone to do something like that! ..' might be people's thoughts. Never the less, these man trusted God more than anything!!! Faith accounted for them righteousness.

- Ephesians 2 :19 - 22  : How we are now citizens with God's people. built on the foundation of the apostles with Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone, in Him we are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. No more strangers of God's people, but having a family blood of Abraham, Moses, Joseph, David, Ruth, Paul ! WOW! We have the same GOD!!!

- Ephesians 2: 10 : We are God's handiwork, created in Christ to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do! WOW! God already called me from before and chosen me, to accomplish what He wants to do through me!! :D:D I can be so sure and certain in all that He has lead me and guide me and taught me and must continue to!

- That God gave us example of Paul who said " imitate me ". For sometimes its easy to misinterpret or not understand what Paul was saying, but its different when you start to see how they lived their life! 

_________________________________________________________________________________

Spurgeon devotional that really spoke to me and encouraged my faith!

"There is corn in Egypt."—Genesis 42:2.

AMINE pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that Jacob and his family should suffer great want; but the God of providence, who never forgets the objects of electing love, had stored a granary for His people by giving the Egyptians warning of the scarcity, and leading them to treasure up the grain of the years of plenty. 

Little did Jacob expect deliverance from Egypt, but there was the corn in store for him. Believer, though all things are apparently against thee, rest assured that God has made a reservation on thy behalf; in the roll of thy griefs there is a saving clause. Somehow He will deliver thee, and somewhere He will provide for thee. The quarter from which thy rescue shall arise may be a very unexpected one, but help will assuredly come in thine extremity, and thou shalt magnify the name of the Lord.

 If men do not feed thee, ravens shall; and if earth yield not wheat, heaven shall drop with manna. Therefore be of good courage, and rest quietly in the Lord. God can make the sun rise in the west if He pleases, and make the source of distress the channel of delight. The corn in Egypt was all in the hands of the beloved Joseph; he opened or closed the granaries at will. And so the riches of providence are all in the absolute power of our Lord Jesus, who will dispense them liberally to His people. Joseph was abundantly ready to succour his own family; and Jesus is unceasing in His faithful care for His brethren. 

Our business is to go after the help which is provided for us: we must not sit still in despondency, but bestir ourselves. Prayer will bear us soon into the presence of our royal Brother: once before His throne we have only to ask and have: His stores are not exhausted; there is corn still: His heart is not hard, He will give the corn to us. Lord, forgive our unbelief, and this evening constrain us to draw largely from Thy fulness and receive grace for grace.

AMEN!