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In What Ways Does God Discipline Us?
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Jun 16, 2006 1:56 pm
Mood: curious,
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In the passage below, the Word talks about how God disciplines and corrects His children. How has God disciplined you? In what ways does He discipline His children in general?
Hebrews 12:5-19
My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him;
6 For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.
7 You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. [Prov 3:11,12.]
9 Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?
10 For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.
11 For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness — in conformity to God's will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God].
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Why Don't We See More Miracles in the Church Today?
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Jun 16, 2006 12:14 pm
Mood: contemplative,
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I think there may be a few reasons why we don't see more miracles in the Church today than we do:
1. People are not willing to pay the price for the anointing. Salvation is free. However, we need to be really surrendered to the Lord continually to be used greatly by Him, I think.
2. People don't care enough about others to see them set free from bondage or healed of their diseases to learn how to get God's power in their lives to do those things for people.
3. We are too wrapped up in our own lives to worry about what God wants us to be doing.
4. We don't understand that God wants to use all of us to minister to others. People tend to think, I believe, that God only uses a select few ministers to do things in His kingdom, not all Christians.
5. We don't have enough faith to believe God for miracles.
Do you agree with these reasons? Can you think of other reasons?
I pray that the Lord will restore His gifts to His church in this country. I pray that He will kick us out of our lukewarmness so that we are willing to do whatever it takes to have His anointing upon our lives. I pray that He will begin this work with me. Amen!
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