Afraid to Question God

FRESH REVELATION this morning I am sharing (from God to me and from me to you!) how the enemy likes to enter is with a question! (always) he did it to Adam and he did it to Jesus. "Didn't God say?" and he'll begin to question WHAT God TOLD YOU.

 

Remember God Spoke to Adam and eve about the tree and then here comes the question "really you can't?" ....or Jesus knew what his mission was for and satan questioned him "if you are the Son of God" (He IS and WAS the son of God what a... stupid question!)

Therefore we are often afraid to ask God questions because we know everything bad started with "A Questions!" but there are two kinds, the kind meant to trip up the things of God and the Kind that wants Understanding!

Wanting to understand is hugely important, the Lord wants us to understand his Word (don't be like a horse or mule he says, that has no understanding) so we ask God GOOD questions.....what did you mean by that Lord how does this apply to me I know you want me to UNDERSTAND!

 

That is different from the way the enemy does it he is always wanting people to question God's motives "did you say you were love" He might say: "so how come you allow hell?"

 

....Whenever you find yourself questioning the goodness of God you can bet it started with the enemy asking a bad "unbelief-provoking question" .....What would you want YOUR kids to do if your motives were questioned?

Wouldn't you want them to run to you and let you know what was going on? If you just believe the bad how can God help you? Run to him (he is your Father) he is the Good Father not the Father of lies. Grace to Grow Part 2 Laura Grace

Heavenly Food

Heavenly Food By Laura Grace
You're standing in the Grocery store
There's rows and rows of boxes
...

You can't decide "just what to eat
And you're "smarter than a "fox is"
When you're reading all the labels
You're trying to decide
What food might be good for you
Cause you are hungry, down inside
As you settle on a purchase
You really aren't "quite sure"
But you need something to eat
So the race you can "endure"
Weeks of eating what you bought
you're feeling a little sick
You try a couple other "foods"
and nothing does the trick
Why not ask for heaven's food?
Prepared by God above?
He knows just what to feed you
It's always served in Love
He will not "make you" eat it,
He's not that kind of Dad
But if you ask him your will find
it's the best you've ever had!
Amen
"Give us this day, our daily bread"
Matthew 6
By Laura grace
2 Corinthians 6:17

Vegetables!

God wants us to eat and drink his word! this is part of what communion is saying to us "TAKE IT" (I am the word and the bread of life!) I wish more people could grasp this concept it's very powerful (and healthy) why would he lead us to GREEN PASTURES (to eat!!) Try thinking of the word as Food and not a knowledge things so much (it helps you grow)

Vegetables: Some people (it says in the bible) eat only vegetables. in the bible it also says something about you need milk not ...solid food (making it sound like a bad thing) but the writers of our bible let us know (and so did Jesus) his word is FOOD! (and milk!) Diamond used to write these sermons I was expecting something lofty or deep and he would talk about food! some people can live on a vegetable sermon and some bread and we are not to put them down.

Others get in deep and chew a lot of meat! Others have milk and bread together and are very blessed so .......see there is no right or wrong way to eat and drink the things of God and nobody is "BAD" If they do not seem to understand what we say or partake of! The important thing is not to make anyone stumble and cheer them on for eating and growing! I wish I had learned this sooner in my life I would have been a better preacher of the Gospel. -Laura Grace

What is the Gospel?

The reason the disciples grew into apostles and men of God is because they received what Jesus had to say and attentively soaked it in! When he said those who hunger and thirst, he was not kidding! When he said to the religious folks of that day; “My word has no place in you” he was saying you won’t receive it, you won’t eat it, and you won’t partake of what I have to say! Listen I had to really slow myself down to learn how to “chew’ on the word of God like a cow chews on her cud! While I am doing this I begin to see all kinds of other things that the spirit of God wants to show me! When Jesus said “this is my body” “broken for you” did you hear the word broken? He said “my food” is to do the will of my Father! He talked about food a lot actually and even Ezekiel was told to ‘eat a book!” Why do children grow? Do they grow by just imitating their parents or do they grow because of other reasons? If we teach our child to clean the kitchen, wash the toilet, cook and pick up their room does that mean they are ready to go out and run a household and have families of their own? Filling up pews does not mean we are growing! And we don’t have (as a church) any business out there in the world with our fingers pointing at people screaming: “sinner!” I don’t think Paul could have been any more clear when he said we must look at what is going on WITH US and IN US and not be judging those who are outside! don't be so shocked by the unsaved sinning: sinners sin that's what they do! We need to eat, drink and soak in the things of the Lord, not just learn about it and use it as a ruler to smack people's hands with! We need to offer the Love of Jesus (which we have received) and keep on offering it! Those who make God sound like an angry Father mad at everyone are not preaching GOOD NEWS which is what the Gospel is and was designed to be! Are you preaching good news or scaring people have to death? What would Jesus do  and what did he do ? Let's be like that! -Laura Grace

a Song of Hope: by Laura Grace

Song of Hope  By Laura Grace  (2003)

 

Encompassed in Darkness

Lost in Despair

Nobody Listens

and Nobody Cares

 

That's how you're feeling

but it's not the truth

Jesus has loved you

from the times of your youth

 

Pour out to your best friend

Jesus my Lord

all your complaints

because he's never bored

 

I promise you this

The bible is true

He listened to Kings

and he'll listen to you

 

King David complained

Just read it in Psalms

vented and aired it out

all the day long

 

And I don't know when

Jesus responds

but he'll listen and help you

and give you a song

 

He is your light

Your salvation, your friend

He has created

a world without end

 

Talk to him now

He will never "retire"

From being your savior

your hope and your friend

He's your redeemer

from beginning to end

 

Ask for his guidance

Ask him for prayer

Ask him for everything

Be assured, He DOES care.

 

Laura Grace

Credentials! What are they and where do I get them?

Credentials! What are your Credentials and how to get them? By Laura Grace

I was thinking today, (you know the Spirit of the Lord actually gave me permission to do that!)

Let’s Pray: Father in the name of Jesus thank you that you will “convince me and bear Witness’ to my heart what is truth and what is fiction in Jesus’ name I pray: “I trust in thee.” Amen

So if someone does tell you about a new recipe that is super good to eat (and it sounds good to you) What do you do?

 

Some will want to taste it first, while others may venture out and buy the ingredients and take their chances (believing what they hear!!) and to follow this train of thought even further, do You insist that every recipe you try is made by a “real chef’ before you ever try it? (Me neither!).

Now in keeping with that thought, what were Paul’s credentials? He said he counted all of it rubbish (what there was of his credentials) that he could gain Christ! Those Fishermen who followed Jesus around what were their credentials? Also if someone is out shopping (let’s say) and someone asks for prayer do you go and check with the “head prayer person” to see if it’s okay to pray with them first?

There is nothing wrong with school and credentials, but I say we have made too much fuss over this over the years! Marriage licenses! A long time ago when I was very poor (and not serving God) I got married by a preacher from the newspaper who said she was ordained. She showed up and had liquor on her breath! (True story!) She was no more ordained the man in the moon but she “paid’ for this piece of paper that said she was? I went with it, as we had the license already and I had made up my mind that “marriage” was the way to go over being promiscuous and not being married! See my knowledge of God was very limited at the time so as far as I knew “getting married’ was going to make everything A-Okay! :)

This is just how we are (too often) as a society, as either we tend to grab on to who “HAS” these credentials or maybe how many people follow them is the ticket (cause all those people can’t be wrong can they?) and sometimes it even leads to chasing after Idols! In America we have this “thing” about stars, Hollywood, and even preachers are sometimes subject to become “our Idols’ so to speak! What they say is always true because thousands come to their meetings, right? Really?

So without going into that so much: What makes me believe YOU are qualified to do something is #1 you have studied it, #2 you have applied it, #3 you have a success with it as a result and it worked!

The next key is to let others sample what you have cooked, what you have done or what you have applied in your life if you want others to believe that what you say is true! Now think about Jesus for a minute: HE SAID many things which he also practiced and did, right? And what were his credentials?

Born of the Virgin Mary (which some choose to not believe, despite the testimonies) because really no scientist can now go back and prove this can they? So everything we know about God we have taken by Faith! We have evidence all around us there is a creator, we have this thing down in our heart that tells us THERE IS A GOD and he loves us! We may not understand all things but deep down “we know” just as we know when we meet a person who is not this idol (or rock star) whether they are of God or not of God. We just know! Why do we spend so much time trying to convince ourselves NOT to believe what we already know to be true?

Deep down we know this is a faith walk, we know God is going to use “nobodies’ to talk to us at times, we know his pearls of great price cannot be bought with silver or gold, and we know that what we KNOW (and have put into practice and had success) IS an area we are qualified to walk in! Let me ask you if you prayed for a backpack for your kids (because you couldn’t afford one) and you saw one on clearance the next day for $1 (and you have one dollar) and you just “happened’ to run into this deal wouldn’t you say that was God answering your prayer? After a time when things like this happen often you become convinced or persuaded fully “God is so faithful.” Now you are not just talking about a recipe you saw in a book and never tried, you have lived it and have “tasted and seen” that the Lord is Good for yourself! So credentials are nothing more than “paperwork” proving you are qualified to those who do not believe you have really studied or have learned what you say you know!

But what you know (and have proven to know by schooling) while it is commendable it is not what makes a person qualified! There is a lot of paid advertising that costs big bucks and I just got this email today that said: “An Angel of Prosperity” is going to bring you wealth just because you read this! POPPY SEEDS and lots of weeds! I don’t need to read some email to be prosperous, I need to apply myself to prospering in the word of God (so that my soul prospers) because this is where true prosperity lives!

I don’t have to go to some big lofty school to know I am qualified! I live it every day of my life (Qualified in the things of life and that which pertains to godliness, holiness and my relationship with God!)

Listen, if God is big enough to save you he is big enough to “teach you” and show you what you need to know! And let him use whoever he sends you too, not being picky about “who it is” k? Because to be picky about WHO he sends is just as bad as complaining about what he sends you to eat! (like that manna they found out in the wilderness?) Credentials!

You’ll know when someone is anointed to speak to your life trust me, YOU WILL KNOW! And when it happens follow your heart because that is what led you into a relationship with Jesus in the first place! Get back to that place where you trust God IN you to make a wise judgment (or decision) get back to that place where relationship with him is everything to you! If you do you’ll be happy you did! Speaking as one who did and IS and having no regrets whatsoever!

With Love and prayers and blessings, Peace! -Laura grace

 

Laura Grace

GRACE RESCUED ME VIDEO

Surviving or Overcoming ? .....there is a Difference!

Surviving something and Overcoming are two entirely different things. A person can survive something but when it's over they don't feel "on top" and whatever it was haunts them, troubles them, bothers them all the time.

AN Overcomer is like Rocky in those Sly Stallone Movies, no matter how many times they are knocked out they refuse to be defeated. they see themselves as more than conquerers and won't settle for less! Only we are not just boxing we are fighting off bitterness, anger, resentment, despair, depression, exhaustion, rejections, misunderstandings........
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(and the list goes on and on) being robbed being forsaken by people at times who said they would never do that.....so what is your foe? Oh the devil of course he swears to knock us out ....we swear to knock him out! and who is going to win? .....Who will overcome and have their Joy Peace and determination to do things right INTACT ....why us of course! because we are overcomers!! ............(and not just survivors!) amen! and Please don't let yourself become like Khan.....

He is such a great example of what a Heart for Revenge can do to a person.....and he wasn't even fair about it ....for a heart of rage and revenge does not see the whole picture! Lord please help us be overcomers.....not just survivors and not full of hatred and rage ......Please make us Like you Father and help us to see we too can be a hero like you are ......and we can Win ....(and not be defeated) no matter how many times we may have been "knocked down" for the count.

Laura Grace Author, Grace to Grow

How I study (by Laura Grace)

How I study (By Laura Grace) To me, learning from God is a 24 hour a day thing. I ask God to teach me what he wants to talk to me about (since he is my Father) and I've been doing this for a long time now. I chew on what he gives me and ponder it and ask him questions. I write it down.

Sometimes when I ask for understanding or more clarification about something it doesn't come to me for days and then all of a sudden the lights go on or I can feel or sense that voice... of many waters talking to me. Things "coming to me" all at once like when I first got saved and I started to just "KNOW" things. Now When I hear a good preacher I know it because God has already indicated some of those things to me and his words bear witness to what God has already said (the sheep know his voice amen?) and Pruning is when there are unnecessary or dead things that need to be trimmed away like things I have added my own understanding (or someone else's)

 And: we all have different callings and gifts although we are ALL called to Grow (see Ephesians) we all grow up toward the Head which is Jesus Christ. The things God teaches us will help us with our everyday lives, our circle of friends and family, our jobs, our individual "posts" if you will. It stands to reason that we cannot get everything we need from one Sunday Sermon each week although we do love to gather together. There are many of you that can testify on God's faithfulness from everything to asking for a good deal on a car, having patience and having it happen to him leading you to say a clothing sale (like I did) because you wanted a new shirt!

Now we are not going to start a group "how to get deals' but I've had God help me create new recipes from what I had in my cupboard (just because I asked him) and see why I have faith is my faith is exercised from day to day in small things, and I gather more testimonies and I ask him to help with more things, and I gather more testimonies and this is how I grow (in part) and get strong in the Lord. I also eat my vegetables and drink my milk (the word of God) and I don't strive to be a know it all I actually "eat" (chew on) and swallow the word of God. He is the Bread of Life!

Well that's just a small sample of what I do everyday ........(every day) ...all day long!
This is all part of being IN HIM and IN THE LIGHT and he wants everyone to have this abundant life where he walks with you and talks with you and shows you things and reveals things (to you) and the more you treasure his words the more he will give you!

Its' awesome, wonderful ..........Completely AWESOME!!! and before you know it you are so excited seeking the Kingdom first all the other things do fall into place and well I thought I would share this ......now it's hard to stop but this is getting long.

Your friend and companion in the Journey called "LIFE WITH JESUS"
Laura Grace, Author, Grace to the Rescue and Grace to Grow
this is a sample from part 2 Grace to Grow "MORE" .......

and the more we have Jesus in us (He is Love) the less we have to fear.