The Gideon Game and God’s will

The Gideon Game and God’s will

Many of us will play the “Gideon Game” to find God’s will for our lives.  Gideon tested the Lord twice with a fleece or mat. See Judges chapter 6 in the Old Testament of the Bible. Gideon placed out a fleece / mat and said God if it’s your will, make the fleece dry and the ground around it wet and God did.  Then Gideon, who was asked respectfully, asked God to do the opposite and make the fleece wet and make the ground dry, and God did.  This is called Fleecing, where, like Gideon, we put something out there and ask God to show us the way. (It’s not exactly faith but it’s doable)

Then another thing some people do to find God’s Will is to Fast or go without eating food. Perhaps we miss a meal or many meals.  As they pray and read the bible and drink water. It’s a very good way but you may become hungry.

Even more people will just flip a coin, heads or tails, yes or no, the chance of a coin flip. Then they may flip the coin two out of three times.

But the bible says in Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all you heart, and lean not on you own understanding, in all your all ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct you path.  And faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Rom 12:1-2

As always, finding the will of God starts first with salvation. Being justified by faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ. God wants to be saved first and the find His will.  Now, understand, God is not willing that any should perish,  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And by the way, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

So call on the name of His son, Jesus, believe by faith, what Jesus did for you and you can be saved.

God Bless you,

RevDan

Justified by faith

 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Rom 5:1

Since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).

Faith based justification. Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Dear friend, have faith in God and in the Lord Jesus Christ. For salvation the word is near you, the words are in you mouth and heart. For with the heart man believes and with mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

It was good enough for me and I pray it will be for you.

God Bless you,

RevDan

Jesus increased

Luke 2:52

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

(Hey, I found something here, perhaps a gold nugget while going back to the Greek)

Jesus increased – G4298 – pro-ko-to – to advance to strike forward and cut forward a way. It comes from two Greek words pro and kopto (G4253 and G2875)

προκόπτω prokóptō, prok-op'-to; from G4253 and G2875; to drive forward (as if by beating), i.e. (figuratively and intransitively) to advance (in amount, to grow; in time, to be well along):—increase, proceed, profit, be far spent, wax.

Much like one clearing a path, Jesus did this from His youth and during his youth.  There were many philosophies of that Greek, Roman and Jewish, and even as a child, Jesus was plodding the way by beating down main line ideas and plodding a course to his adulthood and eventually our Lord and Savior.

Help us Lord, the trod a path to your way with your words and wisdom.  We too, have many ideas and philosophies in our day, help us Lord, to drive forward through the wrong and find your way.

But my friend, you must be born again, you must be saved, go through all your man made ideas and philosophies, cut down and beat them out of your way. The follow the path to Christ, who has prepared the way for you.  For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for the heart man believed and mouth confession is made unto salvation. The word is near you even in your mouth and heart. It's by faith.

God bless you,

Rev Dan

Sunday night

"It was on a Sunday night"
He came to them
He calmed them
He commissioned them
(John 20)
"It was on a Sunday night" (cont.)
His presence was real
His plan was revealed
His power was received
(John 20)
Rev JA

Hope of Israel

Please follow this link, Hope of Israel

https://www.facebook.com/HIBMHQ/videos/1204300353030808/

Dr. Fried's Special Message about the Hope of Israel National Conference.   www.Rapture.Today.com *** PLEASE SHARE THIS AS MANY AS YOU CAN ***

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. see Romans 10

Please pray for peace in Jerusalem.


Rev DanSam

A hidden message

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I saw this on the internet tonight and God spoke to my heart and mind. I believe God works in different times and different ways.  One quote is that He works in mysterious ways. And so it is with this truth from John 3:16.

For within this is a great message the "GOSPEL", Let's observe. G-O-S-P-E-L
For God so love the world, that he gave his Only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not Perish, but have Everlasting Life.

It has been said the gospel is defined in 1Cor. 15:1-3, when Paul defined it. But John 3:16 has been called the "gospel" in a nut shell. Meaning the gospel message is shown and seen in this one verse.

In any event, it's a hidden truth and the way God that He works.  God takes the weak thing to confound the strong and He takes the simple to confound the wise.

This is exciting to me and perhaps it could be to you too.  

Do you think this was coincidence, not hardly, yet it's how God works!! Seeing this makes me believe more in God. How about you??

So please, think about it, and accept this seed thought from God.  Call on Him today to be saved.  For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For with the heart man believes and with mouth confession is made unto salvation.  Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean not on your own understanding, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy path.

God Bless you,
Rev DanSam

Paul's preaching the gospel

As I was driving to work, I was listening to the bible being read to me from my bible App on my cell phone, and these verses in Frist Corinthians just jumped out at me and God Spoke to heart and mind. 1Cor 1:17- 31 (NAS is great commentary for KJV)

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in ^[l]cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

¹⁸ For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who ^[m]are perishing, but to us who ^[n]are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written,

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

²⁰ Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the ^[o]message preached to save those who believe. ²² For indeed Jews ask for ^[p]signs and Greeks search for wisdom; ²³ but we preach ^[q]Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

²⁶ For ^[r]consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to ^[s]the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, ²⁹ so that no ^[t]man may boast before God. ³⁰ But ^[u]by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, ^[v]and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, ³¹ so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

Word of God speak!!

Dear friend, now is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation!! It could be for you.  After hear or read His word, and when the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart, truly it's time for you to be saved.

May God Bless you and save you,
Rev Dan