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Have
You Ever Felt Like God Was Working Against You?
God
For You, Not Against You!
Turn with me in your bibles to the 8th.
chapter of the book of Romans. Lets take a look at verse 31. (What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us?) Also I want to read from the book of mark,
chapter 16, verse 20. (And they went forth, and preached every
where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word
with signs following. Amen.)
If
Your His Child, He's Working For You
I want to let you know tonight, that, GOD WANTS TO HELP YOU!
How many believe that God wants to help you tonight? Raise Your
Hands If You Believe It. All right get ready to be helped;
because the Lord is going to help you tonight!
There are many saints of God in this hour that the devil has
lied to, he has caused them believe that, GOD IS WORKING
AGAINST THEM! Shout Amen If You Know What I'm Saying Tonight.
But I want to encourage you tonight, by reminding you, that, GOD
IS NOT WORKING AGAINST YOU HIS CHILD, HE'S WORKING AGAINST
THE THINGS THAT SATAN IS USING TO WORK AGAINST YOU! In 1John
3:8 it declares; (He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the
devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the
devil.) The work of God through His Son Jesus is against the
works of the devil: not you his child!
The Lord is with us under this Revival Tent tonight; not to WORK
AND FIGHT AGAINST US: HE IS HERE IN OUR MIDST TO WORK AND FIGHT
WITH US, AND FOR US AGAINST THE POWERS OF DARKNESS! If
You Believe It Shout Amen.
It is the devil that tries to get you to believe that God is
working against you. He wants to cause the people of God to feel
that God is warring against them. When all of the time it's the
devil, and his forces that are at war against you, warring to
overcome you and bring you down in defeat. Yes satan is working
toward your eternal destruction, oh, but dear child of God don't
be discouraged or afraid, because GOD IS WORKING FOR YOU AND
FOR YOUR ETERNAL VICTORY!
It is satan that is working to keep you from the blessing of
God; but God is at work in your life to draw you nearer to Him,
so that you can enjoy partaking of ALL of His blessings!
Satan has tried to convince everyone of us at one time or
another that it is God that is warring against us. This is why we
must know WHAT GOD'S WORD HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS! Romans 8:31 says;
( If God be for you, who can be against you?) If
your His child, God is for you. Now this scripture does not imply
that if you are a child of the MOST HIGH GOD that everybody would
be for you, and that nobody would ever be against you. What God's
word is letting us know, is that, IF GOD IS WORKING FOR YOU, AND
WITH YOU, then everyone and everything that does come against you
to try and overcome and defeat you SHALL NOT PREVAIL! Go
ahead and praise the lord.
Jesus declared in Matt.16:18; upon this rock I will build
my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. Someone Help Me Praise The Lord.
You that have children, and LOVE THEM don't war and
fight against them when their doing that which is right. And even
when they fail, in your love for them you CORRECT THEM.
And God in His great love for His children, will CORRECT and
CHASTEN THEM FOR THEIR WRONGS. And if we are not chastened of
the Lord when we fail and do wrong; THEN WE ARE NOT HIS
CHILDREN! But if we are chastened of God, it is because He
loves us.
We are warned in Heb.12:5-11 (And ye have forgotten the
exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise
not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou
art rebuked of him: ver.6 For whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
ver.7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
ver.8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all
are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
ver.9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much
rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and
live? ver.10 For they verily for a few days chastened us
after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that
we might be partakers of his holiness. ver.11 Now no
chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.)
Now as the people of God, we are exhorted not to despise the
chastening of the Lord. For in His great love for us, He use's
CORRECTION, REPROOF and REBUKE to bring us from where we have
fallen. But even in His chastening us, He is not WORKING AGAINST
US: HE IS WORKING FOR US! Can You Shout Amen Someone?!
You see, EVERYTHING that God is doing in you, and ALL His
dealings in your life are for your PROFIT. They are not for your
hurt and destruction, but rather for YOUR GOOD!
Satan
Wants You To Blame God
What you must realize is this; that it is satan and his forces
that are at work against you. His whole purpose is to destroy you,
and the work that God has already done in you; and then get you
to BLAME GOD for the evil that satan is trying to destroy you
with.
Do you remember in the book of Job, when the Sons of God came
to present themselves before the Lord; that satan came also among
them. When satan had told God that he had been going to and fro
in the earth, and walking up and down in it, God asked him: Hast
thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him
in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God,
and escheweth evil? Satan's reply was this: Doth Job fear God for
nought? God you've blessed everything about Job, and you've built
an hedge about him. Put forth thine hand, and touch all that he
hath, (I don't think satan really knows what he asking God to do;
because if God puts forth His hand and touched all that Job had,
what Job had would have been greater blessed) and Job will curse
thee to thy face. The devil wanted God to work against Job by
putting His hand on the things he had blessed Job with, and
destroy them, but GOD WOULD NOT WORK AGAINST JOB! God did
permit satan to try Job, to prove to the devil that JOB DOESN'T
SERVE ME BECAUSE OF THINGS: HE SERVES ME BECAUSE I'M GOD,
AND HE LOVES ME!
Then we find satan going forth to work against Job, and to set
an all out attack against him. Notice with me in Job 1:16 how
satan tries to make it look like to Job that even God is having a
hand in destroying him. Lets read it; (While he was yet speaking,
there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen
from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants,
and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.) Do
you see what the devil tried to make it look like? Satan made
sure that it appeared unto Job's servant that God had sent that
fire out of heaven. You see, judging by appearance alone, that
fire seemed to have came from God out of heaven, but God had
nothing to do with that fire. That fire came from satan, out of
the air. Eph.2:2 tells us that satan is the prince of the power
of the air. It was satan, not God that had caused that fire to
come down upon Job's sheep, and burnt them up.
Lets take a look at this. The appearance of that fire coming
down from the sky, would very easily cause those that don't know
God and the Word of God, to think that it is God working against
them to destroy them. There is and old saying that says: APPEARANCES
CAN BE DECEIVING! And satan is a master at deceiving, and
making things appear to be something there not. This is why
friend you must be STEADFAST IN GOD'S WORD!
Now we know that God has sent fire down out of heaven at
different times. But God has never sent fire to work against them
that LOVE and SERVE Him. HE ALWAYS SENT THE FIRE TO
WORK FOR THEM! Shout Yes.
When Elijah had gathered the children of Israel, the prophets
of Baal, and the prophets of Jezebel together on Mt. Carmel, he
said unto them: HOW LONG HALT YE BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? If
the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him. Then
he said, call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the
NAME OF THE LORD: AND THE GOD THAT ANSWERETH BY FIRE,
LET HIM BE GOD! The prophets of Baal and of Jezebel set up
their altar and called upon Baal all day long even unto the
evening to send fire down upon their altar; but NOTHING
HAPPENED. They EVEN CUT THEMSELVES until the blood gushed
from them, and leaped upon their altar to try and make something
happen: BUT THEIR DEAD GOD COULD DO NOTHING FOR THEM! Then
Elijah prepared the Altar of God, laid the offering upon it, and
then topped it off by pouring twelve barrels of water on it.
Praise God I Love This. I'm sure that those prophets of Baal
thought; we haven't got anything to worry about, there ain't no
way that's going to burn. But when Elijah prayed GOD SENT THE
FIRE! God's fire fell that day, not to work against Elijah,
but to WORK FOR THE MAN OF GOD, AND TO CAUSE THE PEOPLE
OF GOD TO RETURN BACK UNTO THEIR GOD!
Friend, let me tell you that God has never and will never send
fire out of heaven to work against His people. Every time that
God sent fire it was to DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL!
Even when the children of Israel were in Egyptian bondage, the
plagues that God sent among the Egyptians were not sent to work
against the people of God; BUT TO WORK TOWARDS THEIR
DELIVERANCE! You see, the things that God is WORKING IN YOUR
LIFE, He is working in you so that you can live a life of VICTORY
OVER ALL THE THINGS SATAN WOULD DESIRE TO DESTROY YOU WITH!
God's
Working All Things For Your Good
In Ph'p.1:6 it reads, (Being confident of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it
until the day of Jesus Christ:) Look at it: He which hath
begun a GOOD WORK IN YOU! Not he which hath begun a BAD
WORK IN YOU. That which God is working in you is GOOD. GOD IS
WORKING A GOOD WORK IN YOU, AND FILLING YOU WITH HIS GOOD
THINGS, THAT WAY THERE WILL BE NO ROOM IN YOU FOR BAD
WORKS OR BAD THINGS! Raise Your Hands And Praise The Lord.
Beloved, Paul moved by the Holy Ghost wrote in Eph.2:10, (For we
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.) We are GOD'S WORKMANSHIP. God's work in you is not for bad,
but for Good. I serve a GOOD GOD, who GIVES GOOD GIFTS, and who
is WORKING EVERYTHING TOWARDS MY GOOD! Rom.8:28 says, (And we
know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to his purpose.) Did
you catch the very first three words? AND WE KNOW! AND
WE KNOW! And you must know it also in order not to be
DECEIVED by the DECEIVER. Dear saints of God; YOUR HEAVENLY
FATHER IS NOT WORKING AGAINST YOU, HE'S WORKING EVERYTHING
FOR YOUR GOOD! HE IS NOT AT WAR AGAINST YOU; HE IS WARRING
WITH YOU, AND FOR YOU TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL
WHICH ARE SET AGAINST YOU TO DESTROY YOU!
Hear it; YE ARE OF GOD LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE
OVERCOME THEM: BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU,
THEN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD! God has called and enabled you to
be an OVERCOMER; not to be the overcomed. And you can
OVERCOME, because GREATER, someone shout GREATER!!! GREATER IS
HE THAT IS IN YOU, then he that is in the world.
Yes, He the is warring with us, and for us, is greater then he
that is warring against us. God's Word declares us to be MORE
THEN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVES US!
Even when the APPEARANCE of things look like SURE DEFEAT for
the people of God in 2 Chr.32 that God Fearing king, Hezekiah did
not let the APPEARANCE OF THINGS cause him to lose his confidence
in the DELIVERING POWER OF GOD! Listen to his Words of Faith; (ver.7
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king
of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for
there be more with us than with him: ver.8 With him is an arm
of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and
to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon
the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.) Someone Shout, Glory.
Revival
Even In The Jail House When You Know God Is Working For You
No doubt the devil thought, that if he would have Paul and
Silas beat and thrown in jail for working the works of God, that,
that would discourage them and that they would quit PREACHING,
and WORKING THE WORKS OF GOD. But that didn't stop them. At
midnight in that old jail house, held fast in stocks, and beaten
severely, those two HOLY GHOST FILLED men of God sang
praises unto God and prayed. God's word declares, that God sent
an earthquake and through a Mighty Miracle loosed the stocks form
off them, and opened up the prison doors, and SET THEM FREE! The
jailer and his family got saved! Somebody Shout.
And the BAD that satan intended to discourage and destroy them
with, God took it and turned it around for their GOOD. AND SHOWED
HIS MIGHTY MIRACLE WORKING POWER ON THE BEHALF OF HIS SERVANTS
THROUGH IT! And want to let you know tonight, that the God who
worked in the behalf of his people then, that PUT THEIR TRUST
IN HIM, is STILL WORKING WITH AND FOR HIS PEOPLE TODAY!
And the DELIVERANCE and HELP which he gave them then; KNOW AND BE
ASSURED THAT, NO MATTER HOW FIERCE SATAN WARS AGAINST YOU, AS
A CHILD OF GOD YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN POWER OVER ALL THE WORKS OF
THE DEVIL, AND THAT OUR GOD, THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE GOD OF
MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS IS GOING TO BRING YOU FORTH WITH
A MIGHTY VICTORY! Because: GOD IS NOT WARRING, AND WORKING
AGAINST YOU, HE'S WORKING FOR YOU!
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