Welcome to Hank’s Place in 2022
Let’s talk about God and His Word. All the words God has spoken to mankind are for our benefit. He believes them. He tells the truth; He cannot lie. HE has given us promises. Gives us wisdom, understanding, knowledge. How about those promises. Are they coming to pass in your life? Being fulfilled? Do you even know what some of them are?
Ah, that’s a key, dear friend. Find some – in the bible. Then, choose to BELIEVE them, after all, the Almighty God, who cannot lie has spoken them. Then YOU speak them out. In faith. It’s YOUR FAITH that, I could say, that ACTIVATES His promises toward YOU. Like Joshua. Like Caleb.
Heb 3:12-13 in the Passion translation exhorts we believers, “So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you UNRESPONSIVE to the living God. This is the time to encourage each other to never be stubborn or hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. For we are mingled with the Messiah, or, we are sewn together with the Messiah, if we will continue unshaken in this confident assurance from the beginning until the end.
It’s not that we fall out of Christ, but His power toward us is limited by our unbelief. Like being given a ticket to today’s Super Bowl. We hold it in our hand, but don’t believe that it’s for real. It IS for real, it HAS BEEN GIVEN, it’s valid, like all the promises of God that are “Yea and Amen in Christ Jesus,” but it will do us no good if we do nothing with it.
So, as Heb 3:6 says, let us continue courageously, to hold firmly to our bold confidence and our victorious hope! For unbelief, verse :13, will lead us astray – render us unresponsive to the Living God. We cease listening to His voice; we become the living dead!
Hear His voice – really LISTEN and HEAR dear friend. In the desert following the Red Sea crossing, they heard His voice, with UNBELIEF, NOT FAITH. They heard, and disregarded the voice of GOD. Hardening their hearts against Him, they went their OWN way! Verse :19 says “They wrapped their hearts in unbelief.”
And aside from Joshua and Caleb, they perished in the wilderness, something that was never God’s intention, never His will.
TODAY, if you should hear His voice, and just ask Him if you are not sure – LISTEN – don’t disregard – LISTEN — and BELIEVE. If you hear promises, believe them. Speak them aloud. Cling to them, for they are His Word – to you. If you hear instructions, wisdom, guidance, BELIEVE, do that ‘due diligence’ to follow up on what you hear.
Many times that ‘due diligence’ will be along the lines of not being anxious, not being fearful, but RESTING in Him.
So listen, believe, you ARE a Joshua, you ARE a Caleb — so COME ALIVE!
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