His Faithfulness, His Timing

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Amosathar

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Believe it or not, God desires us to go that extra step, to stir ourselves up enough to take ahold of Him. Waiting on God is to join unto Him, by following and doing what is written in His word. As God has gone through extraordinary lengths to make it possible for every believer to find Him even the death of His Son. We are to greatly desire to trust God fully in all that we do and say, and if you will, you will not only find God, but be given of God what is beyond what you ever could have known on your own. The extra lengths you speak of is simply faith in His word to do in finding Him in your own brokenness in following Him, as He has provided a Comforter to confirm in us and teach us of His love, His peace, and the very truth of His word. His plan is perfect and in following Him we are perfected in Him just enough that no man can pluck us from His hand. Freeing us from our own doubts and any deception in ourselves and of men.
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It is easy to talk about trusting God fully when life is relatively easy or even when things get a little tough, but you'll never know how much you really trust God until you find yourself in a serious situation that has no earthly solution. Where there is nothing left for you to do but to trust God for a miracle to make a way out. It is through trials that our faith and trust is God is tested, but not every trial produces growth. It all depends on our actions, not our reactions, in that trial
 
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It is easy to talk about trusting God fully when life is relatively easy or even when things get a little tough, but you'll never know how much you really trust God until you find yourself in a serious situation that has no earthly solution. Where there is nothing left for you to do but to trust God for a miracle to make a way out. It is through trials that our faith and trust is God is tested, but not every trial produces growth. It all depends on our actions, not our reactions, in that trial
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Amen brother! This is what the book of Job is all about.
 
Mofastus

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Amosathar said:
It is easy to talk about trusting God fully when life is relatively easy or even when things get a little tough, but you'll never know how much you really trust God until you find yourself in a serious situation that has no earthly solution. Where there is nothing left for you to do but to trust God for a miracle to make a way out. It is through trials that our faith and trust is God is tested, but not every trial produces growth. It all depends on our actions, not our reactions, in that trial
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God doesn't give us more than we can bare, and easy has got nothing to do with it, Jesus tells us we will have tribulations in this life, and even that some would kill His own thinking they did God a service. We can do nothing without Him, the only easy part still remains through Him. The trial of faith shows us it's not about our sufficiency but His.
 
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God doesn't give us more than we can bare
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Please provide scripture reference for this? Because if you are quoting 1 Corinthians 10:13, that is about us not being tempted beyond what we can bear. When we face these tough situations in life, it is not God giving them to us or doing it to us, he may allow it to happen, but he's not responsible so we may very well face situations that are more than we can bare because we live in a fallen broken world... But just because it is more than we can bare, it is not more than he can and that is when we invite him in and learn how to trust.
 
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Please provide scripture reference for this? Because if you are quoting 1 Corinthians 10:13, that is about us not being tempted beyond what we can bear. When we face these tough situations in life, it is not God giving them to us or doing it to us, he may allow it to happen, but he's not responsible so we may very well face situations that are more than we can bare because we live in a fallen broken world... But just because it is more than we can bare, it is not more than he can and that is when we invite him in and learn how to trust.
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Jesus was crucified, marred more than any man, and more than the sons of men, Stephen was stoned to death, Paul puts it best in what I'm trying to convey to you...

Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

We have little choice in our own sufferings, but it's an intentional choice in choosing to suffer for Him.
 
Amosathar

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Jesus was crucified, marred more than any man, and more than the sons of men, Stephen was stoned to death, Paul puts it best in what I'm trying to convey to you...
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You still did not answer my question, I asked, where in scripture does it say that "God will not give us more than we can bear?"
 
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You still did not answer my question, I asked, where in scripture does it say that "God will not give us more than we can bear?"
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I think I did answer you; I apologize if it wasn't to your liking, Jesus went to the cross, Stephen was stoned to death, Jesus said Father forgive them, Stephen said, lay not this charge against them. It was you that inferred I was talking solely about 1 Cor. 10:13, but this thread is about God's faithfulness and God's timing. God knows His own, and His own will bare their sufferings for Him by faith in Him, you see this in His prophets up to John and as well the apostles and those martyred for their faith in Him, they were of full age, not babes in Christ wondering how to deal with temptations and needing an exhortation to keep in faith, God guided them in their certainty of faith.
 
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I think I did answer you; I apologize if it wasn't to your liking, Jesus went to the cross, Stephen was stoned to death, Jesus said Father forgive them, Stephen said, lay not this charge against them. It was you that inferred I was talking solely about 1 Cor. 10:13, but this thread is about God's faithfulness and God's timing. God knows His own, and His own will bare their sufferings for Him by faith in Him, you see this in His prophets up to John and as well the apostles and those martyred for their faith in Him, they were of full age, not babes in Christ wondering how to deal with temptations and needing an exhortation to keep in faith, God guided them in their certainty of faith.
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No, you didn't answer the question at all. Because no where in Scripture does it say that God won't give us more than we can bear. Firstly, I'm not even talking about trials that consist of suffering for your faith or being persecuted for your beliefs. I am talking about the situations we face from living in a broken world and since God doesn't cause these things, you can't say he won't give you more than you can bear.

Would you say "God doesn't give you more than you can bear?" to :
a parent that buries a child
a child that buries a parent
a person born with a major disability
a victim of a violent and traumatic crime
a person who loses everything they own from a fire or flood
a parent who doesn't have enough money and are about to lose their house

I could go on, but I'm sure you get my point by now. These are the kind of situations I'm talking about learning to trust God in, because only a miracle will pull someone through that.
 
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No, you didn't answer the question at all. Because no where in Scripture does it say that God won't give us more than we can bear. Firstly, I'm not even talking about trials that consist of suffering for your faith or being persecuted for your beliefs. I am talking about the situations we face from living in a broken world and since God doesn't cause these things, you can't say he won't give you more than you can bear.

Would you say "God doesn't give you more than you can bear?" to :
a parent that buries a child
a child that buries a parent
a person born with a major disability
a victim of a violent and traumatic crime
a person who loses everything they own from a fire or flood
a parent who doesn't have enough money and are about to lose their house

I could go on, but I'm sure you get my point by now. These are the kind of situations I'm talking about learning to trust God in, because only a miracle will pull someone through that.
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ok, this is going nowhere, you know everything, and I know nothing, hope that settles it for you, God bless you sir.
 
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44 Therefore* be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 
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