God promises His church that He will strengthen us with limitless power unto all patience. When we are impatient in trials it is evidence that we have unsurrendered areas in our heart. We must stay in our place persevering so patience can have its perfect work that we may become mature, wanting nothing. If we are to be a patient person our faith must be tried.
Where there is no progressive revelation of Christ people become reckless. There is a systematic working of lawlessness that attempts to take God out of the culture. It is the Holy Spirit that restrains us. When people refuse to come to the true knowledge of Jesus Christ we end up casting off all kinds of restaint; hence lawlssness begins to pervade in our society.
The mystery of iniquity begins its work in our heart when we disagree with what God is saying to us. This is where the spirit of lawlesness has its first entrance. This spirit produces a hardness of heart and unbelief will set in. We must choose to walk under authority. As we submit and keenly listen and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit our heart will remain soft and pliable in the Lord's hand.
When we settle it in our heart and say to God I don't want Sunday Religion, God will point His finger in areas that need to be surrendered to the truth of His word. As we receive truth we will be given living water to satisfy our inner longings. The Lord will place in us a compelling testimony so that we would lead the lost out of their situations and into the love of Christ.
We as humans can forget what Jesus did for us on the cross. But God is not like us and he will never forget what His Son did for us. He will cry out to us and remind us that His Son is all sufficient. God will come and preach to our heart when the preaching of the preacher can't do it for us. God will come and excalim that He is the Great I AM.
When we go through storms we have God's promises that assures us we will get to the other side empowered by His presence in our lives. But what about the unsaved that are going through the same storms and trials that we face without Christ in their boat? God is calling His church to be a voice of power and encouragement to the "other little ships" that are struggling through life without Jesus in their boat. Will we take our eyes off self and be a voice to the unsaved that will bring a word of deliverance?
When we allow envy and jealousy to lodge in our heart we are apt to monitor the sins of others while we justify ourselves. The Bible says every man will answer for their own actions. We must bear one another’s burdens, not thinking too highly of ourselves and so fulfill the law of Christ. Fulfilling the law of Christ is loving God and our neighbors as ourselves.
The only way to keep our children from this evil generation is to hide them in God through earnest prayer. Faith and prayer is the antidote to fear. We don’t own are children; they belong to God. As we by faith place them in His hands He will provide, protect and empower them.