God's master plan

[His_nee (Jeff)]

Good point. Even though we live in a fallen World there's no reason not to separate ourselves from evil practices.

:nod

 

[agua.]

Typo. edited.

 

[reba]

Agreed agua. seems according to Php 4 :8 living in the negative is not a good thing...

 

[Kathi]

Seeing something here ... we have the death of Stephen... Wow such faith such love..
Act 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Act 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

At the same time We know Paul dodged the bullet claiming his Roman citizenship ... As did Jesus when He disappeared.
Having blind faith is not the same as being blind to all that goes on around us... Corrie TenBoom would not have saved lives if she said " well God is in charge so i will set here and let what happens happen..
Like faith without action.

Right I don't think we should stand back and let some things happen but we pray for God to guide and direct us.Pray first take action second.

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

Good point. Even though we live in a fallen World there's no reason not to separate ourselves from evil practices.

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Right. To do what is pure and right and holy, to obey Yhwh, we have to first separate ourselves(by grace of course) from what is unholy (not just from what someone thinks is evil practice(s)).
Through Jesus Christ, Yhwh makes this possible. Apart from Him , we can do nothing. In Him, we can do all that He tells us (if we maintain our trust and reliance on Him and not on ourselves).

 

[iLOVE]

Trials are adverse circumstances that God either introduces or allows in our lives to both identify where we are spiritually as well as to prepare us for where He wants us to go. If you are alive, there is no escaping life’s trials.

You are either in a trial now, you’ve just come out of a trial, or you are getting ready to go into a trial. Trials are unavoidable realities of life.

But even though we all experience them, we also should take comfort in knowing that trials must first pass through God’s hands before reaching us. Nothing comes our way without first having received His Divine approval. And in order to get His Divine approval, there must be a Divine reason for Him to approve it.

The scripture says, "Until the time came to fulfill his dreams,[a] the Lord tested Joseph’s character." Psalm 105:19 NLT

Joseph went from the jailhouse to the penthouse!

 

[for_his_glory]

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
James 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

I would say Gods master plan is that all would be reconciled back to Him as He gave us His only begotten Son Christ Jesus who made the way for us to reconcile ourselves back to God. God also knows we will always be tempted by Satan who tries to steal our faith in Christ as Satan uses others who are drawn away from God by their own lust and entice others to turn away from God. This is why James says that the trying of our faith works patience as God, in His perfect timing, will bring us through the fire every time if we just trust in Him no matter what the fire is.