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Sunday, October 27, 2013

God's will for my life practically speaking

Lately I've been battling God's will for my life.  I will be graduating from seminary and this question has come up often.  I have been wrestling with it because of my own struggles and a disability in my life.
I have been trying to decide the best route to take that would give me joy.  I have a disability that has affected me in not being able to drive.  This has affected some of the things that I want to do, in a sense I have to re evaluate and find the best option for me.  It revolves around trusting God day to day.
In Mighty Men, the constant phrase Ken uses is God's will for us is for our holiness, meaning growth in him.  This is also discussed in D focus study I went through.  We always ask questions where does God want me? Does he want me to do this or that?  In a sense, it is just depending on God daily and growing in him.  Then if we do that he will lead us where he wants us to go in life.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Daniel and the Lions Den

The story of Daniel and Lions den shows us show we should depend on God and trust him in hard times. Trusting in God is key to helping us through hard situations.
In the story of Daniel and the Lions den, there was an edict pronounced throughout the land that whoever makes a tribute to any god or man except the king shall be cast into the den of lions.  Daniel prayed to God three times a day like he always does.  Darius' royal men in the kingdom found Daniel praying to God.  Darius stood true to his order saying, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked." Then Darius' men said in 7:13, "he makes his petition three times a day."
After this had occurred, Daniel was cast into the den of lions.  The king said, "May your God, whom you serve continually deliver you." The kind knew Daniel's God was greater than anything he fathom that may be why he said this.  Daniel's God delivered him before from the fiery furnace when Nebechadnezzar was in power.
When King Darius went in to see Daniel he was untouched.  The king said to Daniel in 7:20, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?" Then Daniel replied to the king's astonished comments in 7:21-22, "O king live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm." Daniel trusted in God and he saved him from the lions and he was saved by God.  In a note in verse 23 says that Daniel was saved because he trusted that God would provide for him and save him from the lions den.
God gave me the strength to depend on him the summer after graduating from college.  He led me a summer discipleship program which showed me show to depend on him in hard times.  In the next year, God closed down the door in what I was trying to do after finishing college.  I tried so hard to get into the Broadcast Journalism field in TV or radio and it never worked out.  I applied for jobs non- stop but none ended up working out.
Soon after, God called me into seminary.  I felt God calling me back into ministry.  I had worked with youth all of my life in the para church ministry called Young Life and I knew I wanted to work with youth in some way, shape, or form.
In this story God is calling us to depend on him and trust him in situation we may face.  God calls us to be desperately dependent on him for everything in our life.
What situations in our lives does God call us to trust him in? How does God show us our will in this passage?

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