Category: The Sovereignty of God
The Sovereignty of God
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Do you ever wonder if the Bible is the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth?
Do you ever wonder if Psalm 103:3 and Matthew 8:16b-17 are True or not?
The Sovereignty of God
What God ALLOWS Is Not Always His WILL
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The Sovereignty Of God
What God ALLOWS
Is Not Always His WILL
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Some Christians have said to me that it is God’s WILL for some Christians to die from a deadly disease, as evidenced when Christians DO die even after Believers pray and ask for healing.
To this statement, I would like to remind the Body of Christ:
God’s ALLOWANCE of something, does not prove or mean that it is His WILL.
Just a couple examples of God’s allowance versus His will, as documented in the Bible are:
God allowed Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
They ate and entered into spiritual death.
God allowed it, but this was not God’s will.
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It was also not God’s will for Abram to have a child with Hagar, yet God allowed it.
God did not barge in, and yell, “Hey, you are not believing Me correctly. You aren’t understanding My Promise”. No. God allowed Abram the time to try to figure out the Promise on his own. And God allowed Abram to try to receive the Promise via his own methods.
Let’s jump ahead to the Israelites in the wilderness.
Wandering around for forty years and dying in the Wilderness was not God’s WILL for the Israelites. God even spoke a PROMISE (revealing His will for them) to these people about a Land, flowing with milk and honey. Yet the people did not know HOW to enter into that specific Promise, because unbelief and fear hardened their hearts. So they not only wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, but died in the wilderness, without ever receiving the Promise and Will of God for their lives!
God allowed them to wander in the wilderness, but this was NOT His will.
But God did not barge in, and drag them in by their hands. Nor did He ‘zap’ them, and translate them on in. No, He ALLOWED them to die in the wilderness …. even as their MOUTHS stated would happen (Numbers 14:28).
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In just these three short examples, we are shown a truth about God: God may WILL one thing for a person and even have His will written down for that person to read (as He has done with the Bible, for us New Testament Believers), but it is up to that person to walk forward in God’s will / to take God at His Word and RECEIVE the Promise (or even as the Jews had to fight their natural enemies, at times, to lay hold of Promises of God even so NT Believers must oft times fight spiritual enemies in order to lay hold of our Promises!).
For the Born-Again Believer this means, each Believer must:
1) HEAR God’s Will / Promise (which is recorded in His Written Word),
2) BELIEVE God’s Will / Promise as it is written,
3) then take the steps in the process of how God says one is to RECEIVE His Will / Promise (one example: Mark 11:23-24).
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God will NOT just zap a healing (or any other prayer request) onto you (in the majority of cases), without you having to BELIEVE first, that you have received your answer to your prayer request (Mark 11:24).
God has revealed His will in the written form of the Bible, for us to believe, to obey, and to receive.
Remember to do your part of the Word: Believe you have received your answer before you see it, and then stand immovable, unshakable, and fully confident in the Truth and dependability of the Word and the Character of God … for Faithful is He Who Promised, to do exactly what He has Promised (Heb 10:23).
Amen.
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“So we see that they (the Israelites) were not ABLE to enter because of UNBELIEF” – Hebrews 3:19
“The Word they (the Israelites) heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard”
– Hebrews 4:3
“And those (Israelites) who formerly had good news preached to them (regarding the rich and prosperous Promised Land) FAILED to enter because of disobedience”
(disobedience of believing God at His Word and trusting Him to do what He Promised) – Hebrews 4:6
“Let us hold fast the profession (confession) of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised)”
– Hebrews 10:23
“through FAITH you will inherit God’s Promises”
– Hebrew 6:12
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