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"My only source of help is gone, I give up"
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Psalm 124:8 "Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth."
Jeremiah 29:11 "
What I need to fulfill to be assured of help is My partaking of the grace of God through my faith in Jesus. This is so because God's grace is my only unfailing and reliable source of help. I know that what the grace of God begins will never be left incomplete but be completed by the same grace notwithstanding oppositions
Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
In all things our focus must be on Jesus because He is the author and finisher of all good things in my life as a believer.
Hebrews 13:5 "Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said,
God has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us so we are assured that no Matter what we seem to be going through He is with us and that He will take us to that expected end.
Philippians 4:19 ,19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.,20 Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Every son's glory and prosperity is ever fathers joy glory and prosperity. God who is our loving Father desires that we will prosper so He is committed to providing our needs in every situation.It is the joy and glory of God to help me in all things
Genesis 22:14 "And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen."
It is our faith in the name or identity of the Lord as our provider which is the source of all our provisions.
1Thessalonians 5:24 "Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do it."
God doesn't call us as believers to disappoint us but calls us so He can be our reliable faithful and unfailing source of help. Our call as believers is a call to believe in God as our Help in all things.
Philippians 1:6 ,6 "Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:",7 "Even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; since as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace."
Psalm 46:1 "To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah. A song upon alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
"It's ok because whiles my intentions were wrong, my actions brought profits"
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Hebrews 10:22 "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
Matthew 5:8
Psalm 24:4 "He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully."
1Timothy 1:5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:"
1Corinthians 13:5 "Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;"
1Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said unto Samuel,
"If God will help me, this is the means He will use and not that"
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Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
Isaiah 55:8 ,8 "
1Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Corinthians 2:9 "But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him."
Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Romans 11:33 "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
"I don't think God will help me through this means"
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2Timothy 3:5 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
Trusting in God for His help is seen in forsaking your own self-inspired understanding of His ways and welcoming and acknowledging His way of doing things.
2Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
Rom 1:17 God's means of helping us is through our faith and the means our faith finds expression is the ignoring of our own opinion and the embracing of God's truth notwithstanding how it conflicts with my own understanding.
Walking with the understanding is walking according to sight and walking according to sight limits our walk of faith. Howbeit our success is in our walk of faith
"If my intentions are good, it matters not, the means I use"
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John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Christ must be the intent(life) as well as the means(way) of every accomplishment. My intentions as well as my ways must agree with the nature of Christ
It is an insult and a betrayal of Christ and His principle to try to fulfill a good intention with wrong means because Christ who is goodness personified is established as the intention of all things and the goodness of the intentions are seen in the goodness of the means of accomplishing them. This means that intentions are as good as the means they are accomplished and the means are as good as their intentions. A wrong means coupled with the right intention is therefore a betrayal of this principle because a wrong means makes a right intention wrong and a wrong intention in turn bears a false testimony that Christ is 'wrong'. A wrong means is therefore a betrayal of the goodness and holiness of Christ notwithstanding the rightness of intentions.
Galatians 3:3 "Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?"
It is foolishness and self-defeating to try to fulfill a good intention with wrong means
Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
Anything that is not completely under the Lordship and preeminence of Christ is under the power of death. Both our intentions and means of accomplishing anything must be under Christ in order for us to see life in anything. He must be Lord of all if we are to see life at all. He must be Lord of all or not Lord at all
Revelation 3:15 ,15 "
It is not possible to mix good intentions with wrong means and not incur the displeasure and judgment of God. The goal of the christian walk is not in doing as much good as is conveniently possible but all about being good. Being good is seen in doing good consistently
"The end justifies the means"
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Jeremiah 17:11 "As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool."
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
Psalm 55:23 "But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you."
Luke 12:20 "
"If God will bless me, He must do it through this means"
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Isaiah 55:8 ,8 "
Habakkuk 2:3 "
1Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
God is my most reliable source of help because not only is His name faithful to all who call upon Him but He created the universe and thus has everything that runs in it including my problems under His control.