The Sermon What We Believe Determines How We Live by Terri Rummel
Sep 14, 2014
What We Believe Determines How We Live (33:33)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 10:8-10; 1 Corinthians 2:9-10; 1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 John 4:1-3; Romans 3:28; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 3:17-19; Ephesians 3:12; Mark 9:20-24; 2 Corinthians 3:18
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Romans 10:8-10
8) But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
9) that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10) For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
9) But as it is written, "Things which eye didn‘t see, and ear didn‘t hear, Which didn‘t enter into the heart of man, Whatever things God prepared for those who love him."
10) But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12
12) But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
1 John 4:1-3
1) Beloved, don‘t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2) By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3) and every spirit who doesn‘t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
Romans 3:28
28) We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Ephesians 2:8-10
8) for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9) not of works, that no one would boast.
10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 3:17-19
17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18) may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19) and to know Christ‘s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:12
12) in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
Mark 9:20-24
20) They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
21) He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.
22) Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."
23) Jesus said to him, "If you can believe? All things are possible to him who believes."
24) Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
2 Corinthians 3:18
18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
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Him, I can tell my meeting good morning everybody was a beautiful morning. It's funny how it's a little cool but that's okay we'll keep each other warm with our company before Easter I like to pray, so it's pretty father, we thank you for this day. Thank you for the opportunity to be together with other believers, people of the come together to worship you love the Lord, I pray, as this message comes for authority, you would be the one that speaks just anoint me where to bring forth what you would have for us today. In Jesus name amen okay I'm back. I had an idea about this message, and I think it's time for just need to share a little bit about my story and the whole theme of this website to share today is about what we believe determines how we live, and each of us has a story. Of course, God has already written our story. They were just now walking it out in our new life with Christ, and it all starts with the revealing of meeting a need to be say that we are sinners and in first Corinthians chapter two verse nine. Intent is her first Scripture. However, as it is written no eye has seen and ear has heard no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those you love that God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God, and then inverse sign up for different him the first thing is the deep things of God refers to God unfathomable and wonderful plan for us that we have salvation and an relationship with him. The promises salvation is revealed only to those few believe that God what God says is true, said all starts with believing first again. Then you have the invitation of Christ in your life is in Romans ten eighteen ten inches, but what does it say the word is near you. It is in your heart and in your mouth that the word of faith we are proclaiming that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. There is that believing again. It's not just confessing it. It's believing in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and he died and raised again for us. So with the help of the Holy Spirit. Then we start our journey. It's like the I'm just looking at this as a book and each chapter of your life and how do you share part of what my chapters are so you can relate. Maybe on and it all starts with the content continues with what we believe, and I wanted to as this question because a lot of times we believe something that one asks why do you believe what you believe. Was it something that someone told you it was just handed down to you like to know that you need to save or did God truly reveal it to you and experience Scripture a message and I think sometimes we just take for granted that whatever were taught. That's what it is and I begin my story with no summative I heard to start from the beginning of my chapter, chapter one where I was a teenager and realize that I was a sinner and I need say I heard a message preached at a church that someone invited me to deny always said no no no, I don't go as I don't know anything about going to church is like that was unfamiliar to me. So I went to church the pastor preached a message and my heart was pierced and, of course, that started my journey I made my way to the altar confess that I was a sinner and I needed to use that wholeheartedly really did make that commitment to Christ. But then as things can happen and it does a lot of times, once I walked away from that altar. That's when things started to come in and just crowd in and take over the cure pressure of friends. The things of change and all that, and I had a friend Hugh decided that I needed help understanding the truth, but it came to be that it really wasn't the truth it with false teaching and so I fell into that category of not really knowing the Scriptures enough, but wanting to do the good things that I needed to change, and I wanted to be a new Christian, a walkout life that what happened was, I got more confused I had doubts and then I didn't understand anything so I walked through nine years is walking away and once I couldn't live up to what I think are the measures were the further that you walk away from that, you start believing am not saying I was say they wouldn't act like this when I and so comes the jury as nine years, but now him choose because I really didn't want to serve God. I really wanted to know the truth, but something just wasn't right when I was learning these teachings from this friend, so I had walked away was like the prodigal son, the further I walked away with not knowing the more into things that I got back into and then I can spot now unbelieving, okay God 's anatomy enough. Now I've done too much. I can go back so that happens to a lot of us in different ways. Not maybe his drastic, but sometimes they fall out of that place of fellowship with the Lord sin may come into her life and takeover and then we start believing that God doesn't love me. That may be, it's too far along that I can't really done enough damage on their good forget it. And that's the lie of the enemy. Of course he wants you to believe that so you will go back, but the chip of the matter is God still is with you when you said that her a face and committed your life. He loves you, so that was my time. My second part of my thing was when I nine years later, I went to a ladies coffee and it was basically just a Bible study, but it was more like just for women. He was very comfortable way, but all the sudden. When I had the teachings I went home to me that day I realized when I was reading John one one in the Scriptures that those words pop that so clear. Did Jesus was the word. The word was with God the Word was God. He was from the beginning he was not created and him go fight well so the first stage in my first chapter was believing. I needed a Savior and committing my life, but the second part was God revealing it to me. See the Scriptures. The truth that Jesus was God, I could have salvation to so then I went on to try and to do good and I was all excited about learning the Scriptures and stuff. So in my and effort, and I wanted that I missed it, as Scripture. Sorry. First John one to do that. There's first John four one two three dear friends did not believe every spirit, the test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world to see. That's what had happened. I got yet he have to really trust what you hear is it some thought. Is it true doesn't line up with your Bible and so ever since that happened to me. I was on this when I realized the truth and I rededicated my life again. I was on this kick where I had to search the Scriptures in a and that's good. I was searching the Scriptures, but I was more like wanting to prove that false religion wrong. I wanted to share all the truth in the Bible side got into the Bible, which is good. Don't get me wrong, that's very good that what it was all had knowledge and we know that when you get had knowledge and not heart knowledge we can get all puffed up and prideful and pointing fingers and being legalistic and so I sidelined that little face for a while or I was like for myself think it was theirs to Scripture. That's that I can stay right there him realize after some time of studying and having folders full of proof in all these Scriptures and trying to teach. I realize I said. Day it was like he told me I could use here in my sphere enough that just learn about me. Don't get caught up with all these scripts are proof. You know that now it's time, date, it's about me now. I mean, you and I changed my attitude about searching the Scriptures. From then on. Now it was all about wanting to know about him and I did get into that legalism for a while just trying to be good and plan out everything you did was wrong and whatever, but in Romans three twenty eight it says for we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. It's not just by observing all the rules and also because it's by faith and what you're believing about him. It's by faith to walk out in your new life with him. So then, because comes my journey a little further on, and also in Ephesians two eight three ten I could give you. You need it again for his bike race that you have been saved through faith, and is not from yourselves, it suggests that God came a new revelation on the about grace. I realize all this time China do good on my efforts trying to learn learn learn and not really understanding grace. I realize the key word here is a gift him. He gave me grace his undeserved favor and I didn't deserve anything but now I understand the gods grace is its real. It's a gift and then once I started to realize the concept of grace. I started to see more about when I messed up in ICN. I realize I am now believing that he was the even one understanding that can be. But you know what that's what the Bible says he loves me and I can't earn it. I can never observe all the laws but it's the gift sin. Now when I read that realizing that he still lives me even when ICN and I don't mean him not saying him purposely sending them on my mess up and send. He still loves me so that said, if you think about it to me that Scripture came to my mind when I had that revelation that says the truth will set you free now and all of a sudden the pressure is off of trying to do good and do the right things all the time and I realize okay I need God 's help, he'll help me do it with the help of the Holy Spirit. I can do the right things, but even when I do make a mistake or if I have scanned. He lives me and I have that freedom to believe that now I'm not confine myself to condemn myself anymore. So the next stages I started to really renew my mind. Now we need to believe I needed to believe what he says about me, no longer on under condemnation, because I'm in Christ. Then I had to start realizing how I have that I many a person. Maybe I don't act like it. I mean we all just step off the platform of being him okay were all good. Everything fine. We had the right attitude. We had the right perspective. We have the right mouth. We have the right has thoughts. It's all a work in progress in all of us are. We are all a work in progress and we are all going through around chapters in our book our journey are walking out. So I started to renew my mind and the way I did. That was, I kept reading all the Scriptures about who I am in Christ who God says I am now I'm starting to see okay I believe that now maybe at one time I didn't believe that about myself. I would always beat myself up and say I have so much more to improve on. I can't do that. It is not what God is looking at. He is looking at our heart and what we were willing to do so, I started to understand more about his character and then I started to wonder no more, but I can send the more that I would see the Scriptures and reading of who Christ is at his character I wanted to be a way I can understand them better and and then my relationship became better. Now it's coming from hearing the word accepting understanding grace studying the Scriptures, receiving all that grace and a gift and now renewing my mind now that I started his turn to have a relationship with God because I was around people that would talk like that, like testaments and weeks couple weeks ago I heard from God or I have guides showing neatness and unlike Huddy it. I didn't understand quite that relationship yet so in Ephesians three seventeen through nineteen, is our next Scripture we seven. Christ made them out in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, and renegade sins. Eighteen and nineteen at a may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide how long how high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God was a lot that's almost like a love letter to me. Even though Paul was writing. I'm praying for the Saints to have that knowledge of his love how wide it is. How deep it is. Then I started to think once I believe that he really, truly advised me and him still getting this like I know God was me yesterday. The Bible tells me so I know that's what Scripture says, now I'm starting to believe how, why, how deep, how much you me when I start to think of how much he did for me, a sinner. How much he suffered what he went through what he gave willingly, then my whole attitude changes toward him. I start to be more honest and I allow myself to be honest with him. Ephesians three twelve says that three can I can reach any hand and say face to him, we may approach God with freedom and confidence. We we have that freedom and confidence to be ourselves. Then I started to think I can be myself. Now how great that is eleven, to be honest and real. Sometimes it's hard for us to be real cuts were afraid to approach God in that area with God in his anyway. He knows what were dealing with. He's all-knowing, but the first thing that happened to me, is then I realized I can approach God with whatever gripes I have whatever issues I have confessions. I have a lack of faith. I have maybe at that time, I can still tell him, Lord, I will understand this and get it. I don't know why this is happening. It's okay. It's okay to be really dedicated to yourself when you realize I started to realize when he correct keys. If you notice me that much. When he corrects me. This is where I think it's a heck of myself because I think why I like correction is you can ask my mom when I was at. I always had have less than I knew right whatever and I didn't like correction to the many still worse about myself that when I have the realization that guide current access and love and kindness. I was able to receive correction from the Lord a lot easier and then I started to want back correction. I wanted to have the changes I needed to change that I can do for myself. God had issue. Mary is in my life like Terry, your attitude stink right now you better watch your mouth or he would just drop the thing is, and like, you know you should respect that person instead of saying that it's just little things because he would tell me here and here and at once I would listen and hear that there are some teams if I allowed him to have that area in my life, things started to happen. They started happening on their own idea and make it happen. So my perspective started changing my relationship with him and other people started changing my relationship in my views about myself started to change and everything else's think, wow, this is a great life things are doing great. Now consider better, but then there's all that part of trusting God, trusting God involves really putting your faith in him no time to grow by child's and that is the best way that we learn who God really is. He brings those three of them, and once I had certain things in my life happened. Things that you can understand maybe you're wondering why you blame yourself for once I got through this things am sure you can vouch for that yourself. Everything that he goes through has been reason to help you through it. Their God is always with as do that small, and when I realized that going through dealings. These things I realize not to trust my feelings but trust what he said on. I could also look back and see how he answered and why he didn't answer the way I wanted. Sometimes a lot of times we think we know what's best for her life and we think that's what I need God. If you could just did you just do that and everything else. The workout that you got it to you this, and it might not happen in the near wondered why, but then I had a real-life trust gardeners that trust God, trust God, and I had been keep doing that because testing is hard. We want to be in control, control, person reveal that meeting, so I like to be in control. If I hand off the thing to do and still liking it. Somehow I have to make sure everything in a worker of make it my way, so letting go and letting God was one of those things I learned that state is something that what we believe, Mark chapter nine verse twenty two twenty four is one of my favorite scriptures, because I felt I really spoke to me to this one time, so they brought him this is Amanda brought the sun that was possessed by demons and the new disciples can bring it out, but so they brought him, and when the spirit saw Jesus and immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He started a grounder rolled around foaming at the mouth Jesus as the boys father. How long has he been like this from childhood. He answered. It is often throwing him into fire and water to kill him. But if you can do anything take pity on us and help us and Jesus said if you can. It everything is possible for him to believe I could just hear GIs like Thomas Gilliard Tuesday if I can go to believe that I can do this. So whenever I am doubting her how they feel doubtful moments in my labors, but it's a fact that Scripture always comes to my if I can. Don't you believe that I can. Everything is possible for, please so I have to believe he can do it, so there's believing and trusting are you going to any of these times. I know we are not sure what's going on. He had a little bit of doubt or fear rethinking. I don't know I need to do something about. I him oh maybe it's because we just have to let him take charge and do it, and believe that he can. He can do whatever is needed and he knows that so then later on after you these are just stages that I went there and I'm sure that everyone has gone to different places, or wherever they are. You are on this. Just a little changes. But little by little and myself. The old maid wasn't claimed they are anymore. I'm still not all perfectly sure I will ever be perfect, but I can see now that I look back on the years of growing and walking with the Lord. There's little changes happened different ways. I think about people and how I look and be merciful to others how I look at God. I look at other people. How I look view myself, how I trust God more days and then I stayed to see that little by little days old habits that were bad. I started seen some fruit common man like on a link to it anymore. Not as much. Maybe it is free because you don't realize that there happening to you until you look back and think went one time I went just than that, but now I have more love I have more patience. I'm what kind is the fruit of the Spirit says. And then I have to see to it. You can't just squeeze out a fruit puppet on a branch and make fruit. Okay him to grow patients today and make it happen. No, God doesn't do the Spirit is the fruit of the spirit, that's what it's called friends and last but not least to him fears learn not learning I'm just realizing that it's nice to be a litigious be myself and abide in Christ worship him for. Enjoy all the benefits of being a Christian, not just doing and trying and working and learning and center just China learn to hear gods voice more and more each day and that's how some people here in different ways you can be reading and something I'll just pop out in his psychotic shininess for a reason and I know it because something will happen that we can expect that's what I needed to need to hear it or and it does because if were not reading or not praying for not listening that little small voice, even silly little things like last night, but the Rhine and I went somewhere. My son and we use allergic to peanut butter. Well I changed purses, where he went, and every time I will kept taking things am I other person putting in my new purse to go. Can I want a smaller person. My drunkest person as I have everything in my effort. I kept seeing these little pills that on the way back to start looking again every time I looked in there. I kept seeing these little Benadryl pills that I don't need those. So I pick up my son. We go to this reception, reading, and he didn't realize that he took a play of the cake and there is enough butter icing. In fact, on my soap something in just those little things, even God was showing to take the bandage, but luckily thank goodness not likely with God. Had someone there that knew someone to talk to management and they got some Nintendo him when he was okay. I was really taken a trip to the emergency room but anyways, these are just little things that he send you some. There is a reason for the week to sometimes pass it off as nothing. I mean, that's just a little thing that yet. It could've been a lifesaving. It could be that you're going down the red are you going to go do some place or go to a meeting with people and guides telling him not go out and you will have spent together, they might be reason. So once we start hunting in heeding God 's direction were starting to learn more to relate and communicate with them. So that's where I met my chapter of the book of my journey. So what are you in your journey are you at the place where, in a nice honeymoon. Were you just. This is great, God is good and that's great, or you going through trials are you going to questions he going to doubt. Are you really in a trusting God to take care of things and that's what he wants. He wants us to just trust them because he loves us that we have to believe what he says. So each. Each of these little topics that brought these are just some topics I can think of all of them are handing out what you believe. If you believe that God is angry with you. You can be in a dry place walking around just feeling like horrible because your thinking God 's mandate. You and your living out what you're believing you can go into depression. Harry could be very and just about everything in general worry are you doubting for a healing, who is God to you, who is in like Mark says to you believe if I can are you a place where you're dealing with this illness or someone you love is room on it all hinged on trusting God to you believe God knows best. You believe God is your healer do you believe God is your Savior do you believe he's a comforter were around her life. There is a place we have to believe God for that believe God is our friend. He is. He loves us. If God is for us. You can be against us. Everything in Christ Jesus is yes and amen, the Scriptures are some of those things that you have to get to believe them. We are more than conquerors for those who are in Christ Jesus does all these things, there's all these great things that we have to believe that otherwise were going to be wandering around in our journey, stating it out, got has a perfect plan for a life and he wants us to walk in, but I think it's wherever you're at in your story. I think that's just the childlike belief with the challenge challenge yourselves to examine yourselves and think where my hat with you Lord in my walking closely with you are you far away. Jesus are you far away. Are you with me twice so you listening, you may not feel these with you just know he's if you there's a difference of how we feel, but I could have been totally led astray from the first chapter of my book. He knows where I be now on my chapter if I would notice. I know that walked away from five for all these years, but deep down Holy Spirit was always leading me back because I sincerely wanted to know the truth. So when your seat choose God was saying that to do the help of the Holy Spirit when you have him in your life. He can teach us, guide us and you all that to help us sell I just challenge you to ask where MI with you Lord in my journey and don't beat yourself up if you don't feel like you're close with God. We also distantly at times. I think it's just as we go in and out of phases where were dry and parched him him know what's going on. Just call to Jesus and he is with us always. So let's pray father, we thank you God. It you have given us this special gift of salvation that is a gift of grace and mercy. Lord, that there's nothing we can do that can make you love us anymore that Lord I just pray for each one of us here wherever we are in our journey with you, Lord God, that you would bring to light and reveal yourself more that we would get deeper and deeper with you Lord, trusting you, Lord, each step of the way we know that you have all great things planned for us, Lord, and we are so thankful for that plan that you have already mapped out so we thank you again for your love and help us to just continually growing our belief and faith in you Lord Jesus name amen Him, I can tell my meeting good morning everybody was a beautiful morning. It's funny how it's a little cool but that's okay we'll keep each other warm with our company before Easter I like to pray, so it's pretty father, we thank you for this day. Thank you for the opportunity to be together with other believers, people of the come together to worship you love the Lord, I pray, as this message comes for authority, you would be the one that speaks just anoint me where to bring forth what you would have for us today. In Jesus name amen okay I'm back. I had an idea about this message, and I think it's time for just need to share a little bit about my story and the whole theme of this website to share today is about what we believe determines how we live, and each of us has a story. Of course, God has already written our story. They were just now walking it out in our new life with Christ, and it all starts with the revealing of meeting a need to be say that we are sinners and in first Corinthians chapter two verse nine. Intent is her first Scripture. However, as it is written no eye has seen and ear has heard no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those you love that God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God, and then inverse sign up for different him the first thing is the deep things of God refers to God unfathomable and wonderful plan for us that we have salvation and an relationship with him. The promises salvation is revealed only to those few believe that God what God says is true, said all starts with believing first again. Then you have the invitation of Christ in your life is in Romans ten eighteen ten inches, but what does it say the word is near you. It is in your heart and in your mouth that the word of faith we are proclaiming that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. There is that believing again. It's not just confessing it. It's believing in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and he died and raised again for us. So with the help of the Holy Spirit. Then we start our journey. It's like the I'm just looking at this as a book and each chapter of your life and how do you share part of what my chapters are so you can relate. Maybe on and it all starts with the content continues with what we believe, and I wanted to as this question because a lot of times we believe something that one asks why do you believe what you believe. Was it something that someone told you it was just handed down to you like to know that you need to save or did God truly reveal it to you and experience Scripture a message and I think sometimes we just take for granted that whatever were taught. That's what it is and I begin my story with no summative I heard to start from the beginning of my chapter, chapter one where I was a teenager and realize that I was a sinner and I need say I heard a message preached at a church that someone invited me to deny always said no no no, I don't go as I don't know anything about going to church is like that was unfamiliar to me. So I went to church the pastor preached a message and my heart was pierced and, of course, that started my journey I made my way to the altar confess that I was a sinner and I needed to use that wholeheartedly really did make that commitment to Christ. But then as things can happen and it does a lot of times, once I walked away from that altar. That's when things started to come in and just crowd in and take over the cure pressure of friends. The things of change and all that, and I had a friend Hugh decided that I needed help understanding the truth, but it came to be that it really wasn't the truth it with false teaching and so I fell into that category of not really knowing the Scriptures enough, but wanting to do the good things that I needed to change, and I wanted to be a new Christian, a walkout life that what happened was, I got more confused I had doubts and then I didn't understand anything so I walked through nine years is walking away and once I couldn't live up to what I think are the measures were the further that you walk away from that, you start believing am not saying I was say they wouldn't act like this when I and so comes the jury as nine years, but now him choose because I really didn't want to serve God. I really wanted to know the truth, but something just wasn't right when I was learning these teachings from this friend, so I had walked away was like the prodigal son, the further I walked away with not knowing the more into things that I got back into and then I can spot now unbelieving, okay God 's anatomy enough. Now I've done too much. I can go back so that happens to a lot of us in different ways. Not maybe his drastic, but sometimes they fall out of that place of fellowship with the Lord sin may come into her life and takeover and then we start believing that God doesn't love me. That may be, it's too far along that I can't really done enough damage on their good forget it. And that's the lie of the enemy. Of course he wants you to believe that so you will go back, but the chip of the matter is God still is with you when you said that her a face and committed your life. He loves you, so that was my time. My second part of my thing was when I nine years later, I went to a ladies coffee and it was basically just a Bible study, but it was more like just for women. He was very comfortable way, but all the sudden. When I had the teachings I went home to me that day I realized when I was reading John one one in the Scriptures that those words pop that so clear. Did Jesus was the word. The word was with God the Word was God. He was from the beginning he was not created and him go fight well so the first stage in my first chapter was believing. I needed a Savior and committing my life, but the second part was God revealing it to me. See the Scriptures. The truth that Jesus was God, I could have salvation to so then I went on to try and to do good and I was all excited about learning the Scriptures and stuff. So in my and effort, and I wanted that I missed it, as Scripture. Sorry. First John one to do that. There's first John four one two three dear friends did not believe every spirit, the test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world to see. That's what had happened. I got yet he have to really trust what you hear is it some thought. Is it true doesn't line up with your Bible and so ever since that happened to me. I was on this when I realized the truth and I rededicated my life again. I was on this kick where I had to search the Scriptures in a and that's good. I was searching the Scriptures, but I was more like wanting to prove that false religion wrong. I wanted to share all the truth in the Bible side got into the Bible, which is good. Don't get me wrong, that's very good that what it was all had knowledge and we know that when you get had knowledge and not heart knowledge we can get all puffed up and prideful and pointing fingers and being legalistic and so I sidelined that little face for a while or I was like for myself think it was theirs to Scripture. That's that I can stay right there him realize after some time of studying and having folders full of proof in all these Scriptures and trying to teach. I realize I said. Day it was like he told me I could use here in my sphere enough that just learn about me. Don't get caught up with all these scripts are proof. You know that now it's time, date, it's about me now. I mean, you and I changed my attitude about searching the Scriptures. From then on. Now it was all about wanting to know about him and I did get into that legalism for a while just trying to be good and plan out everything you did was wrong and whatever, but in Romans three twenty eight it says for we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. It's not just by observing all the rules and also because it's by faith and what you're believing about him. It's by faith to walk out in your new life with him. So then, because comes my journey a little further on, and also in Ephesians two eight three ten I could give you. You need it again for his bike race that you have been saved through faith, and is not from yourselves, it suggests that God came a new revelation on the about grace. I realize all this time China do good on my efforts trying to learn learn learn and not really understanding grace. I realize the key word here is a gift him. He gave me grace his undeserved favor and I didn't deserve anything but now I understand the gods grace is its real. It's a gift and then once I started to realize the concept of grace. I started to see more about when I messed up in ICN. I realize I am now believing that he was the even one understanding that can be. But you know what that's what the Bible says he loves me and I can't earn it. I can never observe all the laws but it's the gift sin. Now when I read that realizing that he still lives me even when ICN and I don't mean him not saying him purposely sending them on my mess up and send. He still loves me so that said, if you think about it to me that Scripture came to my mind when I had that revelation that says the truth will set you free now and all of a sudden the pressure is off of trying to do good and do the right things all the time and I realize okay I need God 's help, he'll help me do it with the help of the Holy Spirit. I can do the right things, but even when I do make a mistake or if I have scanned. He lives me and I have that freedom to believe that now I'm not confine myself to condemn myself anymore. So the next stages I started to really renew my mind. Now we need to believe I needed to believe what he says about me, no longer on under condemnation, because I'm in Christ. Then I had to start realizing how I have that I many a person. Maybe I don't act like it. I mean we all just step off the platform of being him okay were all good. Everything fine. We had the right attitude. We had the right perspective. We have the right mouth. We have the right has thoughts. It's all a work in progress in all of us are. We are all a work in progress and we are all going through around chapters in our book our journey are walking out. So I started to renew my mind and the way I did. That was, I kept reading all the Scriptures about who I am in Christ who God says I am now I'm starting to see okay I believe that now maybe at one time I didn't believe that about myself. I would always beat myself up and say I have so much more to improve on. I can't do that. It is not what God is looking at. He is looking at our heart and what we were willing to do so, I started to understand more about his character and then I started to wonder no more, but I can send the more that I would see the Scriptures and reading of who Christ is at his character I wanted to be a way I can understand them better and and then my relationship became better. Now it's coming from hearing the word accepting understanding grace studying the Scriptures, receiving all that grace and a gift and now renewing my mind now that I started his turn to have a relationship with God because I was around people that would talk like that, like testaments and weeks couple weeks ago I heard from God or I have guides showing neatness and unlike Huddy it. I didn't understand quite that relationship yet so in Ephesians three seventeen through nineteen, is our next Scripture we seven. Christ made them out in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, and renegade sins. Eighteen and nineteen at a may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide how long how high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God was a lot that's almost like a love letter to me. Even though Paul was writing. I'm praying for the Saints to have that knowledge of his love how wide it is. How deep it is. Then I started to think once I believe that he really, truly advised me and him still getting this like I know God was me yesterday. The Bible tells me so I know that's what Scripture says, now I'm starting to believe how, why, how deep, how much you me when I start to think of how much he did for me, a sinner. How much he suffered what he went through what he gave willingly, then my whole attitude changes toward him. I start to be more honest and I allow myself to be honest with him. Ephesians three twelve says that three can I can reach any hand and say face to him, we may approach God with freedom and confidence. We we have that freedom and confidence to be ourselves. Then I started to think I can be myself. Now how great that is eleven, to be honest and real. Sometimes it's hard for us to be real cuts were afraid to approach God in that area with God in his anyway. He knows what were dealing with. He's all-knowing, but the first thing that happened to me, is then I realized I can approach God with whatever gripes I have whatever issues I have confessions. I have a lack of faith. I have maybe at that time, I can still tell him, Lord, I will understand this and get it. I don't know why this is happening. It's okay. It's okay to be really dedicated to yourself when you realize I started to realize when he correct keys. If you notice me that much. When he corrects me. This is where I think it's a heck of myself because I think why I like correction is you can ask my mom when I was at. I always had have less than I knew right whatever and I didn't like correction to the many still worse about myself that when I have the realization that guide current access and love and kindness. I was able to receive correction from the Lord a lot easier and then I started to want back correction. I wanted to have the changes I needed to change that I can do for myself. God had issue. Mary is in my life like Terry, your attitude stink right now you better watch your mouth or he would just drop the thing is, and like, you know you should respect that person instead of saying that it's just little things because he would tell me here and here and at once I would listen and hear that there are some teams if I allowed him to have that area in my life, things started to happen. They started happening on their own idea and make it happen. So my perspective started changing my relationship with him and other people started changing my relationship in my views about myself started to change and everything else's think, wow, this is a great life things are doing great. Now consider better, but then there's all that part of trusting God, trusting God involves really putting your faith in him no time to grow by child's and that is the best way that we learn who God really is. He brings those three of them, and once I had certain things in my life happened. Things that you can understand maybe you're wondering why you blame yourself for once I got through this things am sure you can vouch for that yourself. Everything that he goes through has been reason to help you through it. Their God is always with as do that small, and when I realized that going through dealings. These things I realize not to trust my feelings but trust what he said on. I could also look back and see how he answered and why he didn't answer the way I wanted. Sometimes a lot of times we think we know what's best for her life and we think that's what I need God. If you could just did you just do that and everything else. The workout that you got it to you this, and it might not happen in the near wondered why, but then I had a real-life trust gardeners that trust God, trust God, and I had been keep doing that because testing is hard. We want to be in control, control, person reveal that meeting, so I like to be in control. If I hand off the thing to do and still liking it. Somehow I have to make sure everything in a worker of make it my way, so letting go and letting God was one of those things I learned that state is something that what we believe, Mark chapter nine verse twenty two twenty four is one of my favorite scriptures, because I felt I really spoke to me to this one time, so they brought him this is Amanda brought the sun that was possessed by demons and the new disciples can bring it out, but so they brought him, and when the spirit saw Jesus and immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He started a grounder rolled around foaming at the mouth Jesus as the boys father. How long has he been like this from childhood. He answered. It is often throwing him into fire and water to kill him. But if you can do anything take pity on us and help us and Jesus said if you can. It everything is possible for him to believe I could just hear GIs like Thomas Gilliard Tuesday if I can go to believe that I can do this. So whenever I am doubting her how they feel doubtful moments in my labors, but it's a fact that Scripture always comes to my if I can. Don't you believe that I can. Everything is possible for, please so I have to believe he can do it, so there's believing and trusting are you going to any of these times. I know we are not sure what's going on. He had a little bit of doubt or fear rethinking. I don't know I need to do something about. I him oh maybe it's because we just have to let him take charge and do it, and believe that he can. He can do whatever is needed and he knows that so then later on after you these are just stages that I went there and I'm sure that everyone has gone to different places, or wherever they are. You are on this. Just a little changes. But little by little and myself. The old maid wasn't claimed they are anymore. I'm still not all perfectly sure I will ever be perfect, but I can see now that I look back on the years of growing and walking with the Lord. There's little changes happened different ways. I think about people and how I look and be merciful to others how I look at God. I look at other people. How I look view myself, how I trust God more days and then I stayed to see that little by little days old habits that were bad. I started seen some fruit common man like on a link to it anymore. Not as much. Maybe it is free because you don't realize that there happening to you until you look back and think went one time I went just than that, but now I have more love I have more patience. I'm what kind is the fruit of the Spirit says. And then I have to see to it. You can't just squeeze out a fruit puppet on a branch and make fruit. Okay him to grow patients today and make it happen. No, God doesn't do the Spirit is the fruit of the spirit, that's what it's called friends and last but not least to him fears learn not learning I'm just realizing that it's nice to be a litigious be myself and abide in Christ worship him for. Enjoy all the benefits of being a Christian, not just doing and trying and working and learning and center just China learn to hear gods voice more and more each day and that's how some people here in different ways you can be reading and something I'll just pop out in his psychotic shininess for a reason and I know it because something will happen that we can expect that's what I needed to need to hear it or and it does because if were not reading or not praying for not listening that little small voice, even silly little things like last night, but the Rhine and I went somewhere. My son and we use allergic to peanut butter. Well I changed purses, where he went, and every time I will kept taking things am I other person putting in my new purse to go. Can I want a smaller person. My drunkest person as I have everything in my effort. I kept seeing these little pills that on the way back to start looking again every time I looked in there. I kept seeing these little Benadryl pills that I don't need those. So I pick up my son. We go to this reception, reading, and he didn't realize that he took a play of the cake and there is enough butter icing. In fact, on my soap something in just those little things, even God was showing to take the bandage, but luckily thank goodness not likely with God. Had someone there that knew someone to talk to management and they got some Nintendo him when he was okay. I was really taken a trip to the emergency room but anyways, these are just little things that he send you some. There is a reason for the week to sometimes pass it off as nothing. I mean, that's just a little thing that yet. It could've been a lifesaving. It could be that you're going down the red are you going to go do some place or go to a meeting with people and guides telling him not go out and you will have spent together, they might be reason. So once we start hunting in heeding God 's direction were starting to learn more to relate and communicate with them. So that's where I met my chapter of the book of my journey. So what are you in your journey are you at the place where, in a nice honeymoon. Were you just. This is great, God is good and that's great, or you going through trials are you going to questions he going to doubt. Are you really in a trusting God to take care of things and that's what he wants. He wants us to just trust them because he loves us that we have to believe what he says. So each. Each of these little topics that brought these are just some topics I can think of all of them are handing out what you believe. If you believe that God is angry with you. You can be in a dry place walking around just feeling like horrible because your thinking God 's mandate. You and your living out what you're believing you can go into depression. Harry could be very and just about everything in general worry are you doubting for a healing, who is God to you, who is in like Mark says to you believe if I can are you a place where you're dealing with this illness or someone you love is room on it all hinged on trusting God to you believe God knows best. You believe God is your healer do you believe God is your Savior do you believe he's a comforter were around her life. There is a place we have to believe God for that believe God is our friend. He is. He loves us. If God is for us. You can be against us. Everything in Christ Jesus is yes and amen, the Scriptures are some of those things that you have to get to believe them. We are more than conquerors for those who are in Christ Jesus does all these things, there's all these great things that we have to believe that otherwise were going to be wandering around in our journey, stating it out, got has a perfect plan for a life and he wants us to walk in, but I think it's wherever you're at in your story. I think that's just the childlike belief with the challenge challenge yourselves to examine yourselves and think where my hat with you Lord in my walking closely with you are you far away. Jesus are you far away. Are you with me twice so you listening, you may not feel these with you just know he's if you there's a difference of how we feel, but I could have been totally led astray from the first chapter of my book. He knows where I be now on my chapter if I would notice. I know that walked away from five for all these years, but deep down Holy Spirit was always leading me back because I sincerely wanted to know the truth. So when your seat choose God was saying that to do the help of the Holy Spirit when you have him in your life. He can teach us, guide us and you all that to help us sell I just challenge you to ask where MI with you Lord in my journey and don't beat yourself up if you don't feel like you're close with God. We also distantly at times. I think it's just as we go in and out of phases where were dry and parched him him know what's going on. Just call to Jesus and he is with us always. So let's pray father, we thank you God. It you have given us this special gift of salvation that is a gift of grace and mercy. Lord, that there's nothing we can do that can make you love us anymore that Lord I just pray for each one of us here wherever we are in our journey with you, Lord God, that you would bring to light and reveal yourself more that we would get deeper and deeper with you Lord, trusting you, Lord, each step of the way we know that you have all great things planned for us, Lord, and we are so thankful for that plan that you have already mapped out so we thank you again for your love and help us to just continually growing our belief and faith in you Lord Jesus name amen