Life can really get complicated, and we do not have the all the answers or skills to navigate ourselves through its complexities. Rather than relying on ourselves we need a God to guide us when we are not sure which path to choose. (my concern is when we are presented with a thought that “God is a not reliable to answer us when we have exercised our faith in his promises or trust us to guide us through complex times and helping us make the right decisions.) So just like choosing a wife – I have made a list in what kind of God I need. What Kind of God Do You and I Need? I’ve come with a list of qualifications I need for my own sustainable faith-life:
1. He must be a kind, merciful, and loving God that forgives me for my
Mistakes, disobedience, and bad decisions in life.
2. He must be an honable and trustworthy God who provides me with
Counsel, correction, and wants to be in a close relationship with me.
3. He must be a God I can trust who keeps believing in my dreams
Through any and all hurts, interruptions, disastrous, setbacks, grief or guilt, failure or defeat, to renew me and help me keep on keeping on.
4. I need a mighty God to supply me the resources that will see through
to success.
5. I need a God who will not fail me as my leader, guide, and hero. (one
Who fights for me) - movie: Real Steel - "All I ever really wanted was for you fight for me"
6. I need a God who is the captain of my soul. He must inspire, shape,
and support my life’s dream to serve him and humanity.
7. I need a God who believes in Me!
8. I need a God who talks with me.
Where can I find such a God? I found that Kind of God through Jesus and His promises outlined in the scriptures toward me. Eph. 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us”
Key Thought:
Luke 21:19 in your patience possess ye your souls.
Rom 5:3-4 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Col 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his (Jesus') glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
1 Th 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
2 Th 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
Heb 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Heb 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
James 1:4: "But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed (with no defects), lacking in nothing" (Amplified).
Luke 8:15. There He tells us that we are to "hold fast (the Word) in a just -- noble and virtuous -- and worthy heart, and steadily bring forth fruit with hupomoné -- patient endurance."
Some important ways to develop "patience" in our lives include:
1. Reduce the noise in your life
2. Unhurry yourself
3. Look Inside - the kingdom of God is within you.
4. Keep an untroubled spirit
5. Cultivating calmness
