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Wrg1405

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A weird question and I hope I can put it in the right way.

The Gospel of Christ to me is salvation by faith, forgiveness of sins, reconciliation to the Father. It doesn't stop there though. As a result we are called to be like Jesus. We can't do that without the Holy Spirits help.
Love God with all your heart and soul, love your neighbor as you love yourself, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, a lot of the NT focuses on helping each other, mainly fellow believers.

At times I find myself devoid of capacity to give to others, sometimes I overcome it and at times I find myself unable to do so. When I don't have the capacity to give it tends to be when God is trying to teach me something, to work in my life.

A quick example being. 6 weeks ago I left my son at university. When I left him I was devastated, leaving him with tears in his eyes. Over the next week I just couldn't face people, I didn't go to church. I just didn't have the capacity as such to meet with people who I knew would want help or needed help.

During this time though I felt God dealing with me, with my emotions and to be honest not trusting him for my son.

So back to my question, do you think that God can restrict your capacity in order to increase your capacity?
 
YES

Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecc 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecc 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecc 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Ecc 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
 
In my limited experience...God will bring me to a point at which I realize I must trust Him (more than before, at least...) and lean on Him (at least a bit more than before...).

CS Lewis wrote something about all that...how Christianity seems do-able when you first get saved/convert, but then the believer gets frustrated and disappointed in the flesh, at which point he turns to God.
 
Christ_empowered said:
In my limited experience...God will bring me to a point at which I realize I must trust Him (more than before, at least...) and lean on Him (at least a bit more than before...).

CS Lewis wrote something about all that...how Christianity seems do-able when you first get saved/convert, but then the believer gets frustrated and disappointed in the flesh, at which point he turns to God.
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Very true. Thanks for your response.
 
Wrg1405 said:
Do you think that God can restrict your capacity in order to increase your capacity?
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That perfect and upright man Job would have contently went into paradise as he was without the trials of his faith he experienced.

Brother Wrg1405, you make the statement that we’re to be like Jesus, but I contend that the process is a work in progress according to Rom 8:29 as God does His special work in us to be conformed into the image of Jesus.

I don’t know if you at this point can see the difference in the positions offered to us to have God’s best, but consider Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs (All in Christ are heirs of God, but some may become joint-heirs); heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; IF so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Take a look at Paul’s life below. Did it do anything for him?

Act 9:16 For I (Jesus) will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
2 Co 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Co 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
2 Co 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
2 Co 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
2 Co 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And then in 1 Cor 11:1 we’re told to follow Paul as he followed Christ. I wrote the following pamphlet if you’re interesting further confirmation of this.

Christian Sufferings
http://www.christianforums.net/Fellowship/index.php?threads/christian-sufferings.52898/
 
Wrg1405 said:
19 in one month
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I lost my youngest at 17 to drugs but prayer brought him out and clean by 30. Just be faithful and remember, your Dad and our Father went through this when you left the house. My dad also wept.
 
th1b.taylor said:
I lost my youngest at 17 to drugs but prayer brought him out and clean by 30. Just be faithful and remember, your Dad and our Father went through this when you left the house. My dad also wept.
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Prayer is power. God is a power answering God.
 
It is not a pleasant engagement to be throttled down to nothing. No, not pleasant whatsoever.

But there are Divine Intentions behind such matters of engagements:

Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

So, yeah, powerless. Reference to 2 Cor. 12:9. Same thing. Same working of God.

When, not if, we find ourselves so reduced, so minimized, there is only One Direction remaining to look. How will YOU LORD, move me now? Cause I know if I make a move without YOU it's not going to pan out.
 
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