The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.
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· Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the hearts.
It seems that God is always giving us instructions in the mental level where we are. When we are young and impetuous, He shows Himself there and directive to our emotional need for direction. But a faith that is built on that part of your brain will have little stability. “Add to your faith” means buttress your relationship with God with doctrinal knowledge and obedience to His commands. If your passion cannot abide these disciplines, you are subject to the stumblings where those disciplines have not been practiced.
Lord, I believe help my unbelief.
He works in us both to will and to work of His good pleasure.
Some Christian groups infiltrate the mental aspect of faith by instructing the mental and conscience awareness of God early. ie. Proverbs 119
All of the disciplines are needed to prevent deceptions. Instruction and Inspiration to a deeper love commitment to God are needed in the teen years to help to assuage the tendencies to wander. The more generations that we have had light the more we will be responsible for taking the Gospel on the offensive. And the more light that we have personally available to us the more that we will be led, into proximity to principalities and powers to do battle against the principalities and powers.
I think that we do ourselves an injustice by becoming so individualistic about our efforts against the enemy of our souls. God’s promises for being more than a conqueror is to the Church that the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. We will be held responsible for every generation of light that we have access to in grace and the right usage of it. Where we are neglectful in our own souls and in the souls of our loved ones we will lose ground, if not shipwreck ourselves, either in one area or in the entire thing. Walk circumspectly. Throwing out the entire history of the Christian Church in every generation is pagan to say the least. It is akin to acting as a dominant culture and taking every other culture captive to our generational dominance. We cannot continue to burn the libraries of Faith for the generations because we cannot reconcile the sins of that generation with our own. We don’t want to own up to our culture’s besetting sins so we act as though they never existed nor have any impact on where we are and where others are instead of confessing and repenting our sins and not throwing away our elders’ writings and lessons of faith because they are tainted w/ besetting sins. Ie. BB Warfields writings.
Honor your father and mother and learning from the Lord is essential to growing in grace and learning and taking our next generations to the next levels in faith, if not maintaining. We keep dumbing down our education and our religion because of our felt need to dominate and to deny the errors of our forefathers. We are supposed to learn from the good and repent of the bad. Why can’t we grow in grace? Is a question we ask in this generation. We are just getting saved and getting saved and getting saved. Lord, help us to grow in grace and in Your knowledge.
Where are the hymns of faith? Where are the battles won? They are here, but…
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