What Does God Want From Us

What Does God Want From Us

Be justly, love mercy, walk humbly in relating to one another.

Know Him, believe Him, Obey Him.

It means living as if you’re in the presence of God, living as He intended us to live when He created us and placed in the Garden.

Faith – trust in God and in the scriptures.

Seek God to find Him, sincerely desire to understand Him, approach God with confidence that you can find Him and with willingness to do His will and obey Him. Be as He created us and intended us to be fulfilling the responsibilities He gave us over the earth, all creation.

Seek Him thru His word – the scriptures – with an open mind and desire to understand. Let the scriptures speak for themselves.

Seek Him by resolving to change, to comply with His expectations of us when He created us. Choosing to do what God expects rather than man because it is God’s will and He is the ultimate and final authority. Man’s way is not God’s way.

He wants to dwell in us, walk with us, thru the Holy Spirit. By this we are guided and strengthened to overcome the world and be a resident of God’s creation and kingdom.

Overcome the nature of man and become spirit filled creatures of God fulfilling His purpose for which He created us and have life and live as it was meant from the beginning of creation. To become part of His creation process that He might dwell and walk with us.

Why God Uses Ordinary People

Why God Uses Ordinary People

Elitism prevails and those who promote it believe they are the only ones who can wield power. Especially within the religious.

God chooses to use those that the snobbish consider unschooled, ignorant, ordinary, weak, lowly, despised, common people to do great things for Him.

1 Cor 1:26-29

God uses such people so that God alone will receive the glory.

God can put His power and Spirit in them, making them capable of mighty demonstrations of the Spirit and Power. (1 Cor 2:4-5) (1 Cor 1:28) (Luke 10:21).

God is touched by humility and teachability, such a person, such a “baby”, God can train, fill with power, and use in His work.  People who reject the world, seek His kingdom and the creation at the beginning – the Garden atmosphere and presence of God.

Natural Man vs Spiritual Man

Natural Man vs Spiritual Man

Natural man seeks destruction, corruption, things of the belly, shameful things, earthly things, treats things as objects.

Spiritual man seeks God, life, building up, things of the Spirit, all that God made good in creation, heavenly things.

Natural man concerns himself with the excesses of life.

Spiritual man exercises self-control, is not abusive, obsessive.

Natural man seeks strong self and relies on no one. He is the center of all activity.

Spiritual man recognizes his weaknesses and throws himself upon God’s mercy, considers others before self, recognizes he needs help to overcome the world, he can do nothing of his own power.

Natural man makes his own rules and laws.

Spiritual man seeks to be the creation of God made and intended, following the law established in the Garden of Eden.

Natural man looks to self, sees no wisdom in forgiveness.

Spiritual man looks outside of self, understands and practices a life of forgiveness.

Natural man scoffs at the idea of servitude, serves only himself.

Spiritual man understands that service is a privilege in and of itself, seeks no gain.