The Christian Way of Living Part 6
The Christian Way of Living Part 6.
CWLiving.org
Cliff Spier
We are at part 6 of the CWLiving, my last full lesson tonight
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There are no coincidences for the bel in Gods plan.
I woke up Thursday morning, getting ready to start my lesson for today (Friday) and I scanned the news (always an invitation to sin and lose my RMA,
since the News is always major source of MAS…)
And of course I saw an excellent news report of what I taught on Wed night.
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Recall I said ….
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These people face some amount of uncertainty.
They had courage and did their jobs in the face of changing and bad ‘science’.
They stood their ground and did their jobs.
Now, they are under attack from the socialist, the democratic socialists, Marxists, the “cancel culture’
That is what socialism does. Its evil and very very destructive to a nation.
Yet, recall, as bels you do not face uncertainty.
Not bels. I repeated this over and over again. God protects the believer. Not always Door #1 but you are protected and NOTHING, NOTHING can get to you that God does not approve from His throne in heaven.
You are HIS and HE is your God.
The solution is always the same in the CWLiving – Use Gods solutions –
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Rebound - ….
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So we are to Learn …
Remember you cannot copy this as your sp life. You cant execute just what I tell you.
(Repeat) you cannot copy this as your sp life.
You must (Learn) Think about these verses, adopt them as your F/R Drill verses and then when opportunity comes up then use them. Be prepared. Do not be a casualty.
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What do I mean as a casualty? If you are concerned or have anxiety about any situation (at work or in your personal life, on in the lives of those you love, like children)
Then STOP, Rebound when necessary.
Go to God in prayer and claim His promise(s) and let God handle the situation.
Whether it is getting a shot, refusing a shot, taking a stand and potentially getting fired… rejecting what schools teach your children…. Or
Giving up your guns when they come for them…
Charlton Heston famous quote – they can come and take my gun from my cold dead hands… great bravado (emotionalism), but that is not God’s solution.
What are God’s solutions?
God’s #1 bumper sticker …
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Rebound when necessary, xxx
Let’s God’s Omnipotence handle the situation… and in His timing.
… but Cliff I lost my job… then do your job… find another…
‘Oh by the way …..
Have you thought that God wanted you to have another job and He is using this to force that to happen? Do not under estimate God.
Even if this is not the situation – God will protect you, He will help you…
He protects you, the bel using F/R Drill, who is not falling apart….
You might have underserved suffering involved (don’t be a coward),
recall also God is the one who allows that suffering to occur.
He is the one who will deliver you.
Will you accept His help? Even in adversity? Even in pain and underserved suffering?
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Remember everything in this life is a test. I know it is a easy, flip thing to say from the comfort of our non-adversity situations… but it is still true…
A test not of the cosmic system but from God.
God may use the cosmic system and does. But God, Your creator TLJC, G/F and G/HS are the ones who allow your exact form of testing to occur,
and gave you (in the past, before you needed them) the solutions to all testing.
Use them and relax, or not, and suffer.
The choice is yours.
It’s God’s way or the My Way Highway
The solution is always the same.
Shifting gears …
Let me summarize what the lessons were from the Red Sea incident and
the Prodigal Son.
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God makes you promises and God keeps His promises.
o How? Well for one He is all powerful (Omnipotent) – like parting
the sea!
Therefore Trust God – No Mo Fear
o We Trust God by a process of using the Faith Rest procedure
God is a God of restoration
o God knows we fail &
o God patiently waits for us to return to Him, and many times
again and again
o So again no regrets, no guilt, no condemnation and no fear - we
boldly go to God using His solutions - NO MO FEAR
o We look forward (not backwards) and use God’s solutions day-
by-day.
What are God’s solutions (thus far in our study)? ... Now wait for it!
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You do not need me to show it to you again. You know it by heart.
Rebound
Learn and use God promises
Think like God thinks
Again we are to use the F/R procedure when we fear, in order to put that
fear on God to handle.
We are to have no guilt or shame, we are to return to God’s solutions and
God’s thinking when we fail, because He waits patiently for us to return to him.
God is glorified when you use His solutions.
So glorify God.
Recall you have only one time in your entire existence on earth and in heaven to glorify God. And that is now, while you are on this earth.
You should see in every passage of scripture, God loves you,
wants the best for you and
all you have to do is Learn, Think, Motive and Act.
Learn about God and His procedures, Think about them and
how they can apply to your life, be Motivated to make changes that you want to
make. Don’t make changes because of what you read only. You must
understand what God says, why He says it and why you want to adopt His
thinking. Then and only then change your Thinking and then be
Motivated to Act.
So relax. Take it one day at a time. Don’t get bogged down.
Just move forward each and every day.
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Now I want to speak to a different group of believers. The Pharaoh’s of Christianity.
See in Pharaoh’s case, after repeated warnings to believe God, he did not,
So God’s +R was displeased with Pharaoh and His decisions and His Justice meted out discipline and punishment to those who reject Him and violate His laws and commandments.
That ‘return’ from wrongdoing (disobedience and evil) should be so easy,
But unfortunately for the average person, it is not. Including the average bel!
But if and when you do use God’s procedures (Rebound and F/R)
then we have a compassionate God who forgives, forgets and
who provides a RMA that is so precious in life.
So it should be simple, right?
Why do all this?
One: God commanded us to.
Two: God wants us to have a life of happiness, contentment and relative peace and tranquility with a Relaxed Mental Attitude (RMA).
He also has a plan for us while on this earth
So He provided solutions.
Therefore it is up to us: follow God’s provided solutions (aka God’s way) vs. our own way or the way of the world (cosmos).
These are a very important set of things to understand.
When you Rebound, when necessary, and claim promises from God using the F/R
procedure then you
Trust those promises because you know that you
have called upon God to do what His promises say and
you know God is faithful and trustworthy to do what He promises.
Then you can build up Trust.
You come to rely upon what He says is true (Veracity) and
He will come through for you (Immutability).
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There is another promise of God in a passage you may not be familiar with.
Turn to Proverbs 12:25
I will put it on the board also but please turns to this passage so you can see it with the eye gate.
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Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs it down,
But a good word [Divine promises and BD] makes it glad.
“Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, it's a burden anxiety is.
A burden wherever it occurs, and whenever it occurs,
but a good word makes it glad.”
Anxiety and gladness are contrasted in this verse. In fact they are antithetical terms, and a very necessary that we understand both in order to understand the message, the application of this great verse.
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Noun Feminine singular
deagah (deh-aw-gaw')
Definition: anxiety, anxious care
1.fear or dread
1.This type of fear intrudes and manipulates the thought process. It affects it greatly.
2.It is a fear that paralyzes the mentality of the soul.
a)And how does it paralyzed the mentality of the soul?
By substituting emotion and reaction for both reasoning and objectivity.
b)Fear is subjective, the counter to fear is, objectivity. (use F/R Drill and calm down … reverse process concentration
3.Emotionalism and reaction affects and sometimes debilitates normal activities in life.
a)Fear can hold people prisoner.
b)The reaction of fear affects and sometimes simply debilitates normal activities in life.
1)That moves into the area of depression as well.
4.It causes inertia, when there should be action.
a)Fear can make people so uncertain that they don't know what to do,
they can't make a decision,
and therefore they can't act by making that decision. Think, Motive, Act
5.Also, fear stymies maximum effort when it is most needed.
6.A person who is anxious and emotional, turns inward, becomes subjective, and thinks only of self in times of adversity or stress.
Cannot look at the problem with objectivity, can only look at themselves in fear and subjectivity. [also everything around the suffers – relationship with God (No Rebound, No F/R, No promises, cant think…), Family suffers, Job suffers, friends, Church, all suffer because you are frozen and cant think.]
7.These people are more afraid of a lack of a job, personal injury, of pain (in sickness), and even death, than
personal integrity, honor and responsibility to God and to OTHERS.
8.And that's particularly true, For the believer, our responsibility is to the Lord,
we are responsible to the Lord for our failure to use the spiritual life under pressure, fear - a lifestyle of fear.
9.The anxious, fearful person cannot think or function under those conditions.
10.Thus, Fear turns to cowardice.
a)Fear is in all of us as we shall see, but cowardice is the result of fear that controls us.
b)Fear that will not allow us to make good decisions, to be objective.
Fear that makes us turn inward on ourselves, and become self-centered.
c)This full-blown anxiety and cowardice is a result of a combination of confused thinking and personal arrogance and self-centeredness. And it manifests itself during interactions with people, or with other persons, or from some other stress factors.
So anxiety appears in the face of any imagined, threatened, or real adversity.
Adversity doesn't even have to happen for people to fear, it's only the threat of it or
it’s only the thought of it that brings fear.
Such a person has a very, very difficult time in life dealing with demanding circumstances.
They program themselves to fail because they are afraid. Because emotions and self-centeredness overrides calm, and rational, and objective thinking.
People who handle adversity and fear, when they are under that kind of situation and condition, they become even more calm, more relaxed, more dependent not on their self-centeredness, but on the objectivity, and the problem solving that must occur to overcome the adversity.
And we as believers know exactly what that means. We have problem-solving devices (PSDs).
What I have covered these last 3 weeks. You may be sick of it. But is always remains the same
-- Rebound when necessary …..
We use this overcome those moments of adversity.
So that adversity doesn't become stress.
Because when adversity becomes stress, that's when the pressure gets to us.
That's when we can't function, that's when we fall apart. That's when fear (& Santa and His cosmic system) wins.
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I was in Glacier NP located in Montana camping before coming here.
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It is located near and actually spans the Canadian border, Glacier NP is called Waterton Lakes NP in Canada.
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I wanted to go into Canada and take the Trans-Canada highway across Canada and then come down into New York or Vermont to arrive here.
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I could not.
Why?
Psalm 91:6 Of the pestilence [corona virus, black plague] that stalks in darkness,
Countries, Gov’ts, peoples are paralyzed by
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Psalm 91:6 Of the pestilence [corona virus, black plague] that stalks in darkness,
Yet, we as believers do not have to be. Why?
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Psalm 91:1 He [the believer in TLJC] who dwells [via F/R procedure] in
the shelter of the Most High [a reference to God]
Will abide [reside] in the shadow of the Almighty [Omnipotence of God].
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Psalm 91:4 He will cover you with His pinions [feathers],
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark
[a defensive wall – like a castle wall].
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Psalm 91:1 …
will find shelter …
and reside under the protection
of Omnipotent God.
Are you afraid of the corona virus or of what it does?
Stop Stand Still and watch the deliverance of the Lord.
We as bels can, those bels who do not use the F/R Drill cannot,
and all unbels tremble at the thought.
But not those who reside under the protection of an Omnipotent God.
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Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs it down,
But a good word [Divine promises and BD] makes it glad.
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Turn in your bibles to Psalm 27:5
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Psalm 27:5 [Promise] For in the day of trouble He [God] will conceal me in His tabernacle [promises claimed];
In the secret place of His tent [doctrine & promises] He [God] will hide me;
He [God] will lift me up on a rock.
Psalm 27:5, “For in the day of trouble, we all have those days, maybe every day,
especially if you have a lot of anxiety - every day's a bad day,
every day you wake up with all know what's going to go wrong today?
So say “Well I already know two or three things”, and so you approach life with anxiety and fear
Psm 27:5 , [Promise] For in the day of trouble, God will conceal me in His Tabernacle [promises claimed], in the secret place of his tent [BD] he will hide me, he will lift me up on a rock.”
What a great passage of care and deliverance, behind you.
What does what does a dog do when it's scared, well often it runs into his house or it runs somewhere to hide, what a perfect example.
When you are afraid, you don't hide from your fear,
rather you let God hide you in His loving hands. And that is confidence.
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Turn to Psalm 56:3
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Psalm 56:3 [Promise] When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in You.
[you can have fear but don’t let it control you – how? F/R Drill]
Psalm 56:3 not again, a promise,
David, he said “When I am afraid, David was afraid, David faced a bear and killed it by himself without an H&H .375 cartridge rifle. He faced up a lion and killed it by himself.
He faced Goliath.
He faced the wrath of Saul for years chasing him around the countryside trying to kill him with his army.
He faced his own son who deposed him, and then chased him around the countryside to kill him.
David had fear! This man had fear!
I suppose he could have just said any of the many true but HVP epigrams around today: put your big boy pants on; or in the west we say Cowboy up! Army Rangers say “drive on”, Airborne Rangers say “Airborne! Marines say Semper Fi!
What does that mean? Nothing. Bravado.
To face a bear or problems in life requires fortitude. You better have something besides just some epigram.
David did have fortitude, but how?
Through his own power through his own strength? No not at all.
What did David have?
What does it say, when I am afraid I will put my trust in You,
David was a man of great courage,
David was a man who could handle that adversity.
David's life was turmoil, in so many ways. Many times self induced…
But recall… It Matters Not …
He had a great life. David could have trusted in his human ability, in his own strength, in his training.
Yet David Trusted God. What did God say about David? A man after my own heart.
Can God say that about you?
The solution always ahs been and always will be …
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So to close out this 6 part series, I want to review summarize what we have studied and remind you of the promises we covered.
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Thus far, we have explored in God’s instruction manual [the bible]: God’s Divine Essence (JR SOOO LIVE),
How He thinks (His Love, His Righteousness and His Justice) and
we have studied the first of His Problem Solving procedures:
Rebound when necessary and learning then diligently using the Faith Rest
procedure.
Along with these aspects, I have emphasized
God’s Love for you (God’s Divine Essence of Love),
We need to Trust God, that is Trust His promises because He made
those promises for you, for you to use, (but also Trust His Commands
(CMD) and procedures and what the bible says),
So that you can be relaxed in any and every situation of life (Relaxed
Mental Attitude – RMA). That too is an expression of God’s Love for
you, providing you solutions for life.
I have covered fear because fear is a big problem in life and God has
given us a lot of anti-fear promises.
I reminded you God has a plan for your life. And since it is God’s plan, he designed it for you and only you, therefore only a perfect God can create a
perfect plan for an imperfect person (i.e. you and me), so it will be a
great and fantastic life.
I defined the CWLiving, that is living God’s Plan for you, using God’s
provisions, like Rebound and F/R procedure, learning about God and
Trusting God, which means you start to appreciate God which develops
into a love for God.
You love what He has done for you,
what He provides for you and
then you start to Depend upon Him.
But this all starts with Rebounding when necessary,
diligently using the F/R procedure based upon learning God’s
promises & using them (in the F/R procedure),
learning about God’s Divine Essence and how it works.
Once you ‘see’ God in action and how you can lead a more relaxed life, then that too grows your love for God.
And when that happens, you reflect God’s thinking in your life and you
make decisions that reflect God’s thinking because it becomes your
thinking.
That then is living or executing God’s Plan for your life.
Just like I described in my first example of the Faith Rest procedure as
driving in bad weather: God either causes circumstances to work in your
favor (rain goes away or lessens), or your confidence (courage) is
increased, or any number of possibilities (recall He is Omnipotent). God
works things out, life out, for your benefit. In fact, there is a great verse
that says just that. You know it well…
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Romans 8:28 [Promise] In fact, we know that God causes all things to
work together for [your] good to those who love God [who TRUST
Him [Prov 3:5-6a]], ...
The key is those who Love God, i.e. who know God, who Trust Him, who
use His solutions, procedures and who follow His plan. And to follow
God’s plan at this point for you is Rebounding when necessary, diligently
using the F/R procedure, learning who God is (His Divine Essence) and
how He thinks – or in short trusting God.
Let’s do a quick run through of the promises we covered. You can copy them down or get them from the web site.
Please do memorize them or put them on the wall in your study so that they are on the wall of your soul.
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1 Peter 5:7. Give me all your concerns because I (God) care for you. I like
what Pastor Rory Clark says: Slamming all your anxieties on Him,
because He cares for you.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (TLJC) and you shall be saved” (Acts
16:31)
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Proverbs 3:5 [CMD #1] Trust in the Lord with all your heart [where you
think, not emotion],
And [CMD #2] do not lean on your own [human] understanding
[your own personal opinion vs God’s].
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways [CMD #3] acknowledge Him, [using
Rebound & F/R Drill]
And [Promise] He will make your paths straight. [God will work out
everything in your life]
And recall what I said you have to do to “In all your ways acknowledge
Him?” Rebound when necessary and diligently using the Faith Rest
procedure.
Trust, lean not and acknowledge Him - a learned behavior, a process.
Never give up, never give in.
I introduced the concept of Trust early to you –
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Lamentations 3:25 [Promise] The Lord is good to those who trust in Him [F/R procedure] and to those who wait for Him [divine timing of God,
having patience],
Anti-Fear – God’s Protection
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John 3:16 "For God sooooooo loved the world, [with the result] that He
gave His uniquely born Son [virgin birth], that whoever believes in
Him shall never perish [eternal security], but have everlasting life.”
Once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, you are going to
heaven, no matter what! You cant ‘lose’ your salvation – ever. That is
called eternal security.
And also, you have no fear of physical death. When you die physically you
are going to heaven.
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Isaiah 41:10 [Promise] '[Stop] Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
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Deuteronomy 20:3 ... “Hear, O Israel [believers using CWLiving], you are
approaching the battle against your enemies [problems, adversities of
life] today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or
tremble before them,
Deuteronomy 20:4 [Promise] for the Lord your God is the one who goes
with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save [or deliver]
you.”
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Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord [TLJC], the Creator of the ends of the
earth
Does not become weary or tired. ...
Isaiah 40:29 [Promise] He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power [physical and mental
courage and a RMA].
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Anti-fear conclusion ...
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Matthew 7:11 [Promise] If you then [the context is talking about
parents], being evil [compared to the character & integrity of God],
know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall
your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Again, those are Promises from God. You go to God and ask or claim a
promise and God delivers (in His timing).
We covered Psalm 91, a great passage to put together the concepts of
God’s Divine Essence, His promises and what He does for us in terms of
protection (anti-fear). How can we not forget…
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Psalm 91:1 He [the believer in JC] who dwells [via F/R procedure] in the
shelter of the Most High [a reference to God]
Will abide [reside] in the shadow of the Almighty [Omnipotence of
God].
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The mother bird protecting her chicks?
That is you and any of us as believers who use God’s procedures and Trust
in God.
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Another aspect of anti-fear ...
That I did not cover but you as Pastor’s congregation know well…
“Rebound and Keep Moving (forward)”. Do not look back.
God knows that humans have regrets and worse.
We are hampered by [victims of] our past.
Or what we are doing right now (guilt).
Rebound and move forward. Don’t look over your shoulder, so to speak.
Go forward and do the best you can in your circumstances.
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So part of anti-fear in your life is not looking backwards,
Rebound when necessary and move forward.
Mistakes in the past, even horrible ones,
God turns into blessings (not necessarily instantly but over time) so that
you look back and ‘see’ God and His hand in your life and are so grateful
to Him that you are where you are, at this moment, and look forward to
what God has for you in the future.
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I addressed the issue of fear of punishment, people fear God is going to
punish them.
But we know God’s will for all mankind. And it is not punishment
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1 Tim 2:4 [God] wills [1] all men to be saved [unbeliever] and [2] [for
believers] to come to the knowledge of the truth [bible doctrine, what
the bible says, like Rebound and F/R procedure].
SO we know by this doctrine that God is not out to punish you, but By first looking at who and what God is, His Divine Essence
which for us centers around His Love and then His Righteousness and Justice. What is God’s ‘goal’?
Anything God does it is with this in mind.
For unbelievers’ discipline is to point them toward the need for salvation and a need for a savior, that is Jesus Christ.
For believers’ discipline is to guide us back to executing His plan for our lives.
That is Rebound when necessary and diligently using the F/R procedure.
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Psalm 86:5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness [unfailing Love of God] to all who
call upon You.
‘call upon You’ are those who Rebound when necessary and diligently use
the Faith Rest procedure. Using God’s solutions in life.
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Psalm 86:15 But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger [patient and longsuffering] and abundant in grace and
truth.
‘truth’ is God’s word, the bible or the doctrines of the bible like Rebound
and Faith Rest procedure – ‘truth’ is His Love Letter to You.
Yet recall part of discipline that none of us like is Reaping what you Sow.
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Gal 6:7 [CMD] Do not be deceived, God is not [cannot be] mocked; [Promise] for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
Again, for the believer Rebound and diligently using the F/R procedure
then start making better decisions. Then God may eliminate or reduce the
effects of bad decisions.
Or He might not,
and if He doesn’t then it is for your own benefit,
as strange as that might seem.
Yet you still have F/R procedure and you can be relaxed even when under the effects of bad decisions.
So isn’t God wonderful? He gives us a RMA and contentment even when we reap what we sow!!!
So God loves us even when we make mistakes and are suffering the
consequences of those mistakes.
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God has a plan for your life:
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the
Lord, plans for peace [mental prosperity] and not for calamity [evil]
to give you a future and a hope [confidence].
Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him [God the Father] who is able to do
exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to
the power [God’s Divine Essence] that works within us.
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Recall grace means God’s un-merited favor toward you.
You do not earn or deserve (merit) blessings from God
but you get it, especially when you use His solutions then His Righteousness (+R) is satisfied and His Justice gives you what God Love wants for you. Grace.
Recall again God provides for what you need in life –
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2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power [Omnipotence] has graciously
been given to you everything pertaining to this natural life [food,
water, shelter, etc] and the spiritual life [CWLiving], through the
knowledge [learning what the bible says = Bible Doctrine, e.g.
Rebound and F/R procedure...] of Him [Jesus Christ] who called you
by His own glory and virtue.
2 Peter 1:4 For by these [doctrines – Rebound, Faith Rest, God’s Divine
Essence and how it works] God has granted to us His precious and
magnificent promises [1Peter 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, etc], in order that
by them, when applied, you might become partakers of the divine
nature [God’s Thinking specifically the CWLiving], having escaped the
corruption that is in the world by lust [human thinking and lifestyle].
Bottom line, God has provided everything you need for this life and to grow
spiritually.
And to repeat, the ultimate anti-fear versus is:
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Isaiah 41:10 [Promise] '[Stop] Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
notice again how God worded what will be done? I am, I will... Do
you see how personal God is with us?
Just another indication of His Love for you and me.
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So this is how God thinks and what Gods will is and How God thinks.
His Promises, His CMDs and Instructions to live our lives in the face of
Cosmic opposition or the troubles of life.
My last promise to quote is a prayer, so read it with me as a close in prayer.
Jude 1:24 [Promise] Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
Jude 1:25 to the only wise God and Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord,
to whom is glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.