Some people wonder
why it seems that everything goes
wrong in their life. They wonder why their enemies always defeat them. They
wonder why it seems as though God never hears them and why they never receive
God’s promises of blessing coming to them. They receive no healing in their
sicknesses their cries for financial help seems to go unanswered. Their
troubles are allowed to break them in pieces and God seems not to care. So they
become bitter and hateful blaming God and others for the plight they are in.
Before accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior I too lived
this kind of life having no victory in anything always paying the consequences
of my sins with tremendous suffering no power to overcome the enemies that were
knocking me down and holding me there.
The only time I wanted anything from God was when I was
in so much trouble I couldn’t get out of on my own or wanted something that I
could not get on my own. Only then would I call upon God and promise Him that
if He would help me I would never sin again. But I really had no intention of
keeping my promise to him. God saw into my heart when I prayed these insincere
prayers and help never came to me and nothing ever changed in my life until I
came to my senses and realized that if I was ever to receive anything from God
I would have to be sincere in my heart.
We have to come to a place in life that we believe God is
and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him. We have to please God if we
want to receive from God what we desire.
God has some requirements that we must meet before we
will receive from Him His promises in our time of trouble and need He will not
fight our battles until His requirements are met in us.
The first requirement then is we must please God and we
cannot please God without faith. And faith must be sincere from our heart then
and only then will we receive from God His promises!
Hebrews 3:12
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Living Translation (NLT)
12 Be careful then, dear
brothers and sisters.[a] Make
sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from
the living God.
Hebrews 11:6
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Living Translation (NLT)
6 And it is impossible to
please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God
exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
Hebrews 11:33-34
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Living Translation (NLT)
33 By faith these people
overthrew kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised
them. They shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by
the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength. They became
strong in battle and put whole armies to flight.
I have shared with you what it took me many years of suffering to learn so that you may not have to learn the hard way as I did.
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