ASKING & NOT DOUBTING or ASKING & DOUBTING?

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Werner Dekarski

Asking and doubting or asking and not doubting?

There are true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ who ask and do not doubt that they are receiving an answer from the Lord.

A. ELIJAH (First Kings 18:43)

Elijah did not doubt the answer to his prayer, because he commanded his servant seven times to go and look for the appearing of the rain clouds.

B. ASAPH (Psalm 77:1)

Believing prayers brings results. Faith says with Asaph: “I will cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and he will give ear and hearken to me.” (The Amplified Bible)

C. JOHN (First John 5:14)

Faith says also with John: “This is the confidence we have an approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

D. THE WIDOW WHO IS PERSISTENT (Luke 18:1-8)

Persistent prayer has a promise. We are thinking here of the widow and the unjust judge.

E. JACOB (Genesis 32:26)

We are also thinking of Jacob and we hear him say: “‘I will not let you go unless you bless me.'”

F. JOSHUA (Joshua 7:6)

And we are not forgetting Joshua who “fell facedown to the ground” and “remaining there till evening.” In doing so he turned the defeat into victory.

But there are also true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ who ask and doubt that the answer is coming.

A. PETER ESCAPES FROM PRISON (Acts 12:15)

Here believers were praying for Peter, and when the girl (Rhoda) told them about his escape said: “‘You are out of your mind.'”

B. ZECHARIAH (Luke 1:18)

“‘How can I be sure of this?'” asked Zechariah in Luke 1:18. Zechariah asked for a son, and when he was told of the birth of the son he doubted and asked: “”How can I be sure?'”

Are we belonging to the people who are not doubting or are we belonging to the people who are doubting?

COMPLETING THE COURSE

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Werner Dekarski

“Antibiotic: It is VERY important to complete the course,” is the first thing I am reading on the medicine bottle. I notice also that “VERY” is written in Capital letters. And I am very interested.

The Apostle Paul knew also that it is very important to complete the course. In his Second letter to Timothy he says not only that he has fought the good fight, and that he has kept the faith.

But he says also that he has finished the course. (Second Timothy 4:7 King James Version)

RED-LETTER DAY

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Werner Dekarski

A red-letter day is “a memorably important or happy occasion.” according to The Collins Concise Dictionary.

Red-letter days came to my mind on Monday, July 10, 2017, when reading my Bible.

It is my habit to read the Bible from cover to cover and on Monday, July 10, 2017, I finished reading the Old Testament. I started at the beginning of this year with Genesis chapter one verse one and I am reading every word.

“the Word of the LORD.”

And here is a GOLDEN NUGGET from the last book of the Old Testament:

Malachi 3:18:

“AND YOU WILL AGAIN SEE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, BETWEEN THOSE WHO SERVE GOD AND THOSE WHO DO NOT.”

So, Monday, July 10, 2017, was a red-letter day for me, because getting so far with my reading of the Word of God, is not only a happy, but also an important occasion.