Good brother Quenton in Christ! You of course remember this scripture. 2 cor 13:5 A daily chore for us bro. From ones own self examination,ones prayer life can sure have much more confidence! For as the Lord is my own witness to myself,as i am sure the Lord is also to you Quenton,there is no fear in any lack of knowledge we may have! God will move upon us according to just how much we have been faithful to him.( luke 16:10) The wonderfullness of God is that he never causes us to be more concerned about something he knows we may or may not be ready for.Remember Moses?
God told him he would lead the people out of bondage. Exodus 3:4-22 now check this out!! LOL Moses looks to get out of it!!4:1-14 God had had enough excuses!!verse 14!! Moses knew when to stop!! verse 18! LOL It is this way many times brother in our own life,when God has called us to do something, and we know he has,we look to get out of it because of the lack of confidence in ourself to always wish to be pleasing to our Lord. Here is what I have found out about this bro! Hebrews 11:6 As we act out our faith, God will confirm or change the calling we believed we have had! This is not to anger us,but rather to bless us for being faithful to what we believed was his call upon our lives in the first place.
I may have believed the Lord moved upon me to do a certain thing for him,and when I acted on this,he showed me something different in the act I was about to preform. example. A lady came to our Chruch asking for someeone to deliver her child of ten from a bad spirit,she first went to our pastor, he prayed about it and was told to have her talk to me,as i was willing to go to her house to preform this, Holy Spirit said wait!! Tell the woman you will pray and fast for 3 days then come out to her house! Many would ask why?We as believers know our authority in Christ Jesus!!( luke 10:19-20!!) here is why!! matt 17:14-21! look close at verse 20!!
You see the disciples were moved by what they saw the lunatic doing!! By sight they then believed they could not cast it out! But we are not moved by sight! The prayer and fasting was done so the Lord could teach me this very important lesson, so I would not shame him! So that I would not be moved by what I saw!When I got to her bedroom the little child was about 1 foot over her bed! hovering, crying out! Jesus in me preformed the task! COME OUT of her thou unclean spirit!! and GO!!! The spirit left,the child was free,and Jesus was both glorified and honored! Both came to chruch that sunday to testify of what wonderful things the Lord has done!( mark 5:19) but had I not listened to Holy Spirit!! I would have done this in my pride,not in the Lord! And things could have tuned out badly!
We will make mistakes in our belief, but not in our faith bro! Just be willing to do what the Lord shows you,and you will be just fine,if you see he limits what you are to do,this is done to not make you feel bad,but rather to encourage the belief in your faith you now have!( psalms 103:7!!!) To know his ways we must be willing to abide in them! From such obedience comes great rewards!I know!! I had to learn the hard way on some matters!! LOl But I did learn! The abiding love of our Jesus lies in always being ready for him to love you! This takes discipline and much prayer. For we battle much in our minds, but the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh!! But rather divinely powerful or the very destruction of fortresses!!( 2 cor 10:4-7) And only by abiding in God's own word can we overcome through him! As Moses found out, as I have found out,as you my good brother will find out!! amen!!!Rom 8:31!! May this bless you brother and cause your belief in your faith to grow to such GREAT heights through and by our loving Jesus!! amen!