All About GOD - Growing Relationships with Jesus and Others
PLEASING GOD
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Permalink Reply by Rita Cullimore on
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Char,
I think you please God very much.
First of all, you accepted Christ as your Savior. The Bible says *He would have all saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth.*
Exercising your faith would be another thing that pleases God. Believing His Word. Reading and learning from His Word, through the Holy Spirit.
We all fall short, but the important thing is we are trying to do what the Word tells us to do. I don't think God minds so much if we go through a period of arguing with Him. WE are learning to believe Him and trust in what He says. WE are also training our minds to draw closer to Him by not allowing our minds to control everything about ourselves. We are accepting His renewing of our minds, by His Word. We are learning to make our minds accountable to the Word as well.
Char, I'm not God, but...you please God greatly.
Blessings...
Rita
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Char,
Liken your relationship with God to the relationship you have with your children. First of all, you love them. They are little Chars. They are yours from the moment you got them. Regardless of what they do, you love them. When they do wrong, you love them. When they take the wrong path you continue to love them but you also guide them towards the right path. Sometimes they don't switch paths, but you still love them. When they do something right, you are elated with them. When talking about them to another, your pride shows through. You want to bind up their wounds. You take pride in their accomplishments.
God is no different. You are His child. You became His child when you accepted Christ. He has only good things in store for you.
Do you punish your children when you know they are trying to do the right thing? Neither does God. When you doubt yourself, you are doubting God. You are doubting that He can change you to the person you desire to be. Trust Him to fix what is wrong with you, just as you fix problems for your children. However, you have to want Him to fix you.
As I told Amanda, get rid of one negative thing at a time. We can't change all things at once. Do it one day at a time. Take each day as it comes.
I know you are on the right path even when you doubt it, yourself. If I can see it, God has already seen it.
Blessings....
Rita
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Char,
Have you ever thought about why it is that some kids with critical parents grow up to be just like them like they are carrying the curse and need all kinds of help to get free of it, while other kids from the same family choose not to be like their parents and don't display the same behaviors? Just wondering if you have contemplated this and have any thoughts on it.
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Char,
My heart goes out to you - any one of the situations you went through would be considered a major life trauma, but you went through multiple traumas. Do you think choice has anything to do with how children respond to traumatic circumstances as far as becoming bitter and repeating the same wrong behaviors or do you feel that weaker personality types or those who are under a generational curse just can't distinguish what is going on so they become what they hate? How did you find the strength to finally turn to God? How did your step-father get saved?
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Yes, I agree that like you said that less bold children will be most affected, but even bold children will subconsciously be damaged and will at some point have to look at their lives and realize they got the wrong picture, so must rewrite their scrips so to speak.
Do you think that even though like you said, you did not have the strength to find God, that He found you and met you where you were, because He knew that it was in your heart to find truth? Do you think that forcing kids to go to church pushes them farther away if the reason they are troubled is because they don't have godly parents who are consistent?
It's interesting how those who get saved later rather then sooner, resist God or don't realize their answer is in God for so long out of the turbulence that was their upbringing with its aftermath, and then one day, some finally see the Light and surrender. Have you ever thought about why that is? Do you think there is anything saved loved ones or friends can do to shorten the time for them or do you think that is strictly a matter of their will and God's timing for them?
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Most ppl go though some kind of trauma or dysfunction growing up while not as many forms as you experienced. Did you see the story of Jaci Duggard in the news or the story of the father who kept his own daughter prisoner in their basement and subjected her to daily sexual abuse, torture, imprisonment, both of these men fathering children with them? If so, does it give you any consolation that there are even worse cases some go through? The reason I'm asking is because I've gone through my own share of destructive experiences in my life that satan set me up for and yet I am am aware that things could of been even worse and grateful they weren't. Do you think that sexual abuse is even worse then physical, verbal or emotional abuse? I am a person who asks a lot of questions as that is one way I learn. Please only answer what you feel comfortable answering- I value your time and input. I tend to look at issues from every angle so as to be qualified to minister to others and am ever learning.
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Jane,
Some people increase their problems by continually looking at the past, and not being at the place where they understand it. IMHO, one needs to stay focused on Christ until they can look back at what was and view it as a bystander instead of a participant.
When one becomes becomes born again, all things become new ...from a spiritual point of view. The next step is to start renewing one's mind to conform with one's new spirit, which is perfect. The way to do that is study God's Will for our lives, not just merely just reading about it. As we study His Will, we will be renewing our minds in the manner that we should in order to grow in the Lord. Our focus needs to be growing our roots in good soil, getting a good foundation, and then grow to produce. Instead of doing that, some are constantly being planted and then trying to uproot themselves from the good soil, and replanting themselves in the poor soil. When doing this, we are giving Satan opportunity to uproot us, like a weed.
If one focuses on Satan and the evil he has done in one's life, we are preventing the good things of God to grow and causing ourselves to wither.
For myself, I can't actually look at things of my past accurately because I have put them where they belong, in the past, and my memories of those occurrences are fading, slowly and surely.
God wants us to remember from whence we come, but He doesn't want us to relive it over and over again. It is pointless, those things have passed away, all things are brand new, just as our spirits are brand new.
God has thrown our past into the deepest part of the ocean, and put up a sign that reads...NO FISHING.
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Char,
What you used to do and what you do now are two different things. Your desire is to please God. Do it. Stop looking over your shoulder. You'll run into a brick wall.
As you look back at what you used to do, before God was in your life, you are giving an inroad to Satan. I know you don't want to do that. He is constantly reminding you of how imperfect you are. And you are listening. Resist Satan and he will flee. Don't let him into your life. Call out to Christ, the Author and Finisher. Put you eyes on Jesus. Forget the old. Concentrate on the new. Learn to find praises for God and what He is doing in your life. Search for things to praise God for. Do it continually.
Learn to use your mustard seed of faith. That tiniest of seeds will work miracles in your life. Don't concentrate on what you think you can't do. Concentrate on what you know you can do. Don't look at the problem. Look at the solution.
Blessings to you as you believe God....
Rita
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The Faith that you have in Christ Jesus is what that pleases God!
As the Word says...without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6). Your faith must be only in Christ - He is the only acceptable object of faith (John 3:16, 36). He is the true Savior and the Lord.
When Jesus asked His disciples, Where is your faith? (Luke 8:25), He implied that faith could be in the wrong object. We may have faith that God exists, but that doesn't make us a Christian. Only a faith in Jesus - and who He is - will make us a Christian.
This Faith in Christ Jesus will lead us into the eternal happiness which is in Christ itself!
He is the beginning and the end!
Faith in Him is what pleases the God, the utmost!
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Permalink Reply by David Velasquez on
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Rita,
The one thing I know pleases God about me is that: I Believe Him. I believe His Words. I believe that with Him there are no impossibilities. He is not subject to anything, but His Holiness, perfection, justice, righteousness and of course, His Love.
I believe Him. I do, I do! I love my God, my King and savior - He is true and Faithful. Hallelujah. What an awesome God we have. If He doesn't do anything else for me, He has done so much already. I believe Him.
Blessings beloved.
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