He Holds Me Forever - Held Tightly by His Promises, Part 2

Have you noticed that life's greatest disappointments come after your greatest anticipation their proportion in our program today. My wife Teresa is going to share one of the greatest disappointments in her life and then the rest of the story don't go welcome to this Edition of Living on the Edge head with your finger up her Bible teacher for this daily discipleship program motivating Christians to live like the little of Teresa Ingram series.

He holds me forever. The last time she talked openly about the lies she believed which corrupted her relationship with God and others. In this program. Teresa continue sharing how she got to before we get started, let me encourage you to use the message notes while you listen to include the Scriptures, Teresa references and the key concepts you hope she will begin to apply in your life to download Teresa's message notes just go to the broadcasts tab at Living on the Edge.poor hapless nurse Filling notes right here is Teresa with part two of her message held tightly by his promises something precious in your life when he looks precious to him.

Generally, this is where Tessa's chair that we process of recognizing alignment only and shifter crisis lies God's chair. What he says is true about someone 1976 and 77 it says right here I'm family my comfort. According to your promise to your servant. Let your compassion come to me. I for your long night and we can only learn what God tells us about ourselves by filling our minds with his word. I can't express that strong enough.

It's only through the light of his word that we can see who we truly are. We can look at our circumstances and how he was one of us to see them.

In fact, this his whole Bible, the whole word is a lot story when I was starting to prepare these messages and I just I wasn't sure where to begin was praying, saying what you want me to to study. As I was looking through his word. I realized it's the whole block is about God's love. I can teach the whole block. The whole thing down is and he wants us to be in a Scriptures's, she wants us and so the steps to take. Is evaluate your own thinking patterns against Philippians 48. Think about this passage. Think about take the time takes a little work to stop and think. What am I thinking. Sometimes things go through our minds come out of our mouths. We don't even think about until I would encourage you to take some time. It's not a bad thing to evaluate once in a while and see what Henry saying in my mind and begin to catch those thoughts and say a dozen alarming in my saying things to myself that are true and honorable applicable lawfully and secondly is begin the process of replacing those lies with God's truth.

Those negative thoughts and you are still getting to know his word and take that truth and placed in spots with God's truth in the question to ask. Do I believe that God loves me unconditionally always desires what is best for my mind. Do I believe.

Do I believe that what I learned to think about myself during childhood, from significant others in my life circumstances in my environment may or may not be what is true about me. You may be thinking, things are true, but we can only find out.

As we look to God's word statements to that. Okay so the third cause when no man is a believer who is building the foundation of their lives on worldly temporal things instead of on God's foundation and eternal things will have a hard time experiencing consular Hannah Whitehall Smith because this giant ally, it's me focused on me. This person is consumed with themselves and what the world has to give to make them happy. Significant and secure consume with themselves.

They have a worldly mindset instead of a heavenly mindset of God tells us that we need to live in this world were not this world.

He says this was no real home. Our real home is in.

But we know we live on this earth. We live here for a while. We have a purpose for being here and we are set apart people as his chosen ones to enjoy this love relationship with him and be able to show that other people in first John 215 and 16 assess stop loving this evil world and all that it offers you when you love the world to show that you do not have the love of the father in you for the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure.

The lust for everything we see in the pride in our possession. These are not from the father bear from this evil world and this world is fading away along with everything it craves that if you do the will of God.

You conceivably build our lives on things of this world and ability on a shaky foundation. It's not stable in the world that he's talking about here in this passage.

It's not a beautiful physical world.

God created is not talking about the trees in the ocean and the beautiful world he created and he's not talking about people, people that he wants us to love people the way he says love not the world he's talking about a world system created by Satan and is telling us that we don't need is trying to fill some other things and draw people away from God and all these things that we see around us there one day going to pass away last week. We see our bodies and how they waste away.

They grow old and the things we own and how they deteriorate snug on the last God gives us things of this world to enjoy what he says to be careful and don't around us, things to consume your life. Don't depend on the things of the world to make your life work, but he says if Christ your entire dependence in your heavenly father who loves you alone will give you all things, his all-powerful knowledge of future gives us all things to enjoy leaven of the world, he says, marking the first cut we first went how to love the world. We love the world anything in our lives takes the place of God. Anything were loving the world. It could be a person in our lives takes the place of God can be a boyfriend has been child parent. It could be striving for financial gain or to have possession, Homer, Nice things. It can be a career is taking place of God in your life. It can be a ministry at church.

This is the good things there are good things, but they take the place of God in their lives and these things become. For these people become what we are living for.

Instead of selling all need finding all of our needs in God and he tells us that he is a jealous God and that he won't share his affection with another and I thought about how many women love their children more than they do their aspens. God wants us to love children but it's not about the love relationship of the husband and wife that the children feel most loved and secure. Many women love their children more than 80 aspens and many husbands love their jobs and making money more than they do their once. Now it's good that they provide for their wives. She needs to know she comes first. She's more important to him and making me see what it does when that happens it breaks down the marriage relationship price and so that's what it's like we love the world. We see it breaks down the relationship, putting other things before hand went all the time, we can enjoy these things and we can love people more if she comes first, it makes a lot of sense we think and somehow we opened window than we opened window that we don't place all of our value in things of this world, we open it by surrendering our lines all that we have in all that we are to a father, the one who is willing and able to give us things to enjoy and a believer who constantly surrenders to God will experience God's love in their lives in an amazing way is just how it works, you will experience an amazing way.

Even in the mundane of life in your day today because you'll see God at work, you will see him pick up your costs when you need it.

You will see your prayers answered you have a sense of his presence in your life as you go through your Daniel you'll experience in their and you will give the Holy Spirit freedom to work as you live a life that is fully surrendered to God because God's love is shed abroad in our hearts with his Holy Spirit through his Holy Spirit living inside us where his temple.

He has chosen her to dwell in us. It's the work of his Spirit in our lives that fill the sump with the knowledge of God's word with the knowledge of God and it is Holy Spirit that helps us grow in that and being aware of God's love and online until it makes sense that the more we live a surrendered life giving our lights to God's control, the more the Holy Spirit's freedom to work in the more he has the freedom, the more were going to experience the love of God because his lab is poured out in our hearts to his Holy Spirit, and so the king into given giving the Holy Spirit freedom to giving him access and control of every area of our lives, surrendered and surrender may seem like a negative thing.

It sometimes sounds like it's just giving in, not doing maybe what we think we should do when in fact that's not what it means at all surrendering to God means to release it means to take what ever holding on to whatever were finding value in whatever is holding Lisa to cod we entrusted to him. We give it to him in a place that it's safe to see if we hold on to it will lessen but if we entrusted to him to place of safekeeping he will begin to work in what ever we surrendered in his will, and we know what his will is it's always good and acceptable and perfect and Hannah Whitehall Smith quoting from her.

She says to to yield to surrender means to simply sign over something to the care and keeping of another to yield ourselves to the Lord is to sign ourselves over to him.

It means to give him entire possession and control of all that we are and all that we own. We abandon ourselves to his care take our hands off ourselves. That was a good description.

See it means to entrust what is valuable to into the hands of a loving father who says he will withhold no good paying from those he loves father who will never make a mistake with you will never make a mistake we can count on that. But he can only do that as we yield to him and so then the steps to take to open this window is to build the foundation of your lives on God's word. Here we are again back at his word, we can get away from it because it's the only stable foundation that we have the things we build our lives on. Sometimes, like houses or jobs or people are Lux for success possessions there. Not a stable foundation God's word in Isaiah 48 it says the grass withers, flower fades, word of God stands forever lives forever to stable foundation and so the second thing we do then is to seek his well in everything that we do, for Hammond skin from whatever it is you need for his will to be done will just be amazed at what God's will to and then number three is to choose by faith and it is by faith that we sign over every area of our life to the Lord. And as we surrender as we yield I want to hear we handed over to play sports and help take care of all of our needs and so the question and Stan is can I today quit trying to run my life. My own way, and surrender everything to God, the true lover of Lysol and allow his Spirit to have freedom to work in an area okay.) No, number four is a believer who listens to Satan's lies and accusations about God's word and God's character will miss the signs of Islam. Now in revelations 1210. It tells us that Satan is the accuser of believers that he is always fighting against those who follow God at 20 gas in first Peter 58.

It calls him her adversary says he's our enemy ever since the beginning of mankind with anomie in the garden of Eden all through the Bible when Jesus was tempted in Matthew four in the wilderness and even up to today in our lives.

Satan is trying to draw people away from from God and he tells us he tells us God is good and he tempts us when were tired and were vulnerable.

He tells us that no God and keep his promises to you to do that. He will help you and give you good things holding out on you and he also tempts us not only who were tired but he tells us when were doing great tour were just on the mountaintop and he tempts us to become prideful and to start trusting in ourselves and thinking all you know you really did a good job. He might have really good abilities in this area and we start thinking we sent trusting in the Lord's words as I try to remember that that theme I can do without him.

He he does everything I need to trust in him for that.

In Genesis 317 it says now the serpent was was the shrewdest of all the creatures of the Lord God had made.

And talking about Satan here, and Satan says really he asked the woman did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden.

Of course we needed the woman's told him it's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden. We are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it, or even touch it or we will die.

Satan, she knew what God said the fencer, Satan says you won't die. The serpent hissed. God knows that your eyes will be open when he needed he will become just like God knowing everything both good and evil.

The woman was convinced the fruit looks so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise, so she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he hated to at that moment. Their eyes were opened and they suddenly felt shame their nakedness so they strung for glaze together around her hips to cover themselves. We see from the very beginning of mankind Satan question God, we question God's word and he said Adam and Eve said God didn't really say 90 fruit getting really any question to Scott God's character in his goodness and he says what I can't holding out on you really gonna die really doesn't want what's best for you. Don't listen to him so he deceived anomie in the garden and the result of that tragedy was a tragedy because for the rest of their learning's experienced pain and suffering and broken fellowship in the blemished earth and shame, blaming fear was a tragedy, and Satan and his demons probably thought I really got God this time. He now they really took care of things.

But little did they know that God already had a plan to bring his people back to he already had a plan to redeem his people, and since the fall of mankind until today. God is thin, pursuing his people to bring them back into a love relationship with ever since that time because he says his mom press so severe it's so great that he would sacrifice his son to die on the cross to bring us back into a relationship with him that we would be very own. So how do we open that window had we not listen to those lies will become again Satan's lies by prayer and proclaiming the truth of God's word pray specifically against the accusations of Satan and pray that God would increase your knowledge and awareness of his love for you. Pray about it says in second Corinthians 10 3 to 5 for though we walk in the flash we do not war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, the divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses we are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Here's our thought patterns began. It's amazing how much that plays into how we live and how we act and learn how Satan tempts us and he says to stand against this opposition to stand up against and in a Satan might whisper in your mind, and he would say oh you have so much to do today you better hurry you better get busy you comprise. Later all you tonight. Wait till tomorrow and then he says well we just take the situation into your own hands got dense anything about it now. What you think needs to be done wanted to do it.

But God's.

What he says is his trust in Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways and he will direct your path. When Satan whispers in our minds worked. Pray don't bring the book he can understand that. Anyway, God says, seek the Lord seeking first on your heart, and he will give you all put him first and Satan. They say all know you hear that whisper in your mind. No, those people been so unkind to you how they treated you, I wouldn't do that when health nailed him I wouldn't say kind words and then they don't deserve to hear that God says in his word he says not. Since too good to those who hurt you, to those who mistreat and so we need to know God's word to come up against the lies that Satan would confirm rings and when you hear those little thoughts and you think it's just to it's not we have an enemy who wants to draw us away from God and he'll take any measure that he has today that and so the steps to take than is to stand firm against Satan's lies in Matthew four when Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, Jesus took the offensive for every lie or part truth that Satan spoke to Jesus. Jesus responded with the truth. The real truth in God's word, and so we need to know is true that Scripture says submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you and he has to play gas and power.

The power gets God's word and then the second thing is for every doubt. Pray a prayer when you begin to doubt start praying right away. Don't let those doubts all around in your moving and get you discouraged on the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and God says because the spirit is within us.

We had that same power that raised Christ from the doubt that in every person in this room is the power of God same power that raised Christ from the dead inside you and we gain access to this power through prayer, we draw upon the resources God has already given us through prayer and so we need to pray, we need to ask God to protect us from Satan's lies.

We need to pray, we need to ask God to help us believe how much he wants us to believe is truth in Ephesians 3 but I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, since I fall to my knees in prayer and he prays that that from his glorious unlimited resources that will give us 90 power he says and I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart and I pray that you will understand is all God's people should how great his love really is.

So we need to pray through prayer that we unleash the power of God's true prayer that God's power is directed, what ever situation will print out. It's an amazing thing and we inherit as part of being God's time and so the questions to ask is do I constantly listen to Satan's lies that cause me to doubt God's goodness in my life is not for me in the truth of his word.

My listening to think that well, like the gentle breeze that was flowing in my bedroom window, God's love is there all the time. His love is there, whether we open the window or not that he wants us to open the window doesn't want her to be anything in our lives that would keep us from experiencing his live, and I know near all of you that there could be some here who are like me when I was young single mom you hearing about God's laugh at you can find anyone to know God in your hearing, researching, and you want to know him and I just would tell you that today can be that day for you like it was from the which you don't have to set to a service and not experience any and while Discouraged today in your heart. You can tell, your sorry that you a sinner and that you not being close to him and you can ask him to come into live in your life into all you have to do is invite him in, and father who already locks you and is lunching ever since before you were even born will take up residence in your life will make you his child and you will begin to experience his love as you read his word and she walked with him an issue share that with God's people itself. Is anyone here today. Today could be the walking walkout known experiences how much she paused today before we do. Females in the very last words Teresa said to that group that she was with. I don't want any one of you to leave to walk out of here without knowing and experiencing God's love and I don't know where you're at today.

I don't know where the pressures are where your fears are the hardships. But we all struggle in is not an accident that you happen to be hearing this broadcast the Lord God of the universe knows you made you he loves you and what you've heard today is his appeal to you his invitation to say woo you. Let me forgive you.

When Jesus died upon the cross he paid for in for your sin in the Scripture says as many as received him to them. He gives the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name and right now you can receive that gift. A gift is wonderful and it's free and it's marvelous but a gift that isn't received as a gift does you no good. So let me encourage you as you sense the Holy Spirit speaking to you and you know in your heart of hearts that you certainly aren't perfect.

You've done things wrong. We all have in the Bible says if we confess our sins if we come to God and are honest and say Lord I agree with you. I have blown it.

I've done things wrong I've said things wrong. I've heard people I've lied. I've done things, but today I'm coming, I'm asking you solely on the basis of Jesus hanging on the cross in my place to pay for my sin. Lord I receive that is my gift of salvation right now. I believe in my heart and right now I confess with my mouth the Jesus is Lord and the Scripture promises as you cross that line, God forgives you his Holy Spirit enters your body you are born from above are born again.

It's a new to spiritual life just like a baby is born physically you were born spiritually. That happened right at this moment say Lord Jesus, please forgive me. I need you. Please forgive all my sins and come into my life right now. I turn from my past veteran fully to you.

Make me your son make me your daughter is you've done that in the integrity of your heart. God is faithful to his word. Now here's what I want to tell you you need to text or call the greatest Christians that you know and you say to one or two of them. I'm not sure how it all happens that I prayed to receive Jesus as my Savior and Lord, will you help me now what do I do and then please go to our website Living on the Edge all one word LivingontheEdge.org and you'll find a spot there that will help you understand what's happened to you with some resources that are absolutely free.

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