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Trust Equal Sacrafice it's not About Equal Giving
star it|2 comments|November 15, 2007|824 reads
 
Could it be that others short comings will draw you to a closer walk with Christ?

We need to learn to find our joy and happiness in God and not in our own good feelings. Although our feelings or emotions may long to be satisfied.
It would help if we understand that spiritual discipline is designed to help us know God better, trust him more and love him deeper.
We need to recognize felt needs verses real needs. Being overly concerned about our own well-being, happiness or thoughts, will allow our real needs often to go unnoticed.
For example: If I feel I need praise, admiration, appreciation, or gratitude from someone or the need to be right. Perhaps my real need is to develop humility, meekness and selflessness.

God can use our every experience:
When we feel hurt, wounded, lonely, unloved, ignored, mistreated, taken for granted or to the cleaners. He can use it all to bring us into a deeper relationship with him and greater maturity in our lives and the reward of a closer walk with Him.
To see this we must see every opportunity as something far more important than how we feel, but rather an opportunity for God to meet our real need.
If you love God and treat him right you can't help but to love other people and treat them right.
This is the way to bring him into every relationship.

13:3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 13:5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 13:6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 13:8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 13:9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13:13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 14:1 Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

 
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Starr Franklin
 Starr Franklin
November 20, 2007
Amen!  I so love the bibles meaning of Love because i know I say I love all the time but when reading the definition of Love in the bible shows me that I have to be patient, I can't rejoice in wrong or not get irritable.  These are words that are real and definitely have a deeper meaning than what the world think it is and what I thought it meaned.

Your message here is very very real.  I know in my life now I do things to help others because i think it's the right thing (felt need) but I know and been known that it is always good and a must to consult with God because the things that we do to help others may not be the right time or may not have the effect it should have to build God's kingdom if we did it in his time.  It gets hard especially when I get myself in relationships or I may be use to doing things that I've always done but like you said what is felt needs vs. real needs.  Having that relationship with God is so important because what we want to do usually is not the right answer, I know for myself it's mostly never is the right answer or choice and also it may look like it turned out to be the right answer (satisfied my felt need in the natural) but it may not be in my spiritual walk which will eventually grieve my spirit and let me know, but God Loves us so much that this is why it's so important for us to have the relationship with him first, understand who we are, and trust him because he would not lead us astray or in the wrong direction.

I thank God for this message because when God tells me something it's for me to realize the confirmation he has given me and trust him with my real needs and let go of the felt needs AND BE DISCIPLINED.
Roberta Gibson
 Roberta Gibson
November 24, 2007
Amen!
6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand `of the hunter', And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.