God Rewards Holiness

Pleasing God

There is so much joyousness and peace for those of us that are living a life style that is pleasing before God. We can all hold that while it have its rewards, there are those minutes that looks very hard and painful (Especially in college where you can acquire anything you want) Those modern times when we experience like giving up because it looks as if we are the lone people living holy while everyone else is not. I can associate to the frustration, pain, and exasperation it.

I utilize to have got that attitude. But as Iodine grew (and I am still growing) in my walking with Supreme Being I began to understand that just because everyone else is not living according to the word of God, doesn't intend I don't have got to. Everyone will be justice according to what they did. Let's expression at some the blessings:

A holy life style affects God

The windows of Heaven will open

A near walking with God

Draw others to the Jesus Of Nazareth you

A holy life style affects God

In Leviticus 11:45, Supreme Being said, "You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy" (emphasis added). I speak to or had an brush with. I retrieve one clip in high school, while I was in the gymnasium workings out. One of the immature ladies I had a immense crushed leather walking in. When I saw her, I rushed over to the bench fourth estate machine and asked person to descry (help me with the weights) as fast as I could.

I set on as much weight as I could to affect her. When I started lifting it, that's when I realized that it was too heavy. Boy, did I experience embarrassed. There I was, trying to affect this girl. Unfortunately, things didn't work out.

You might be saying what makes this have got to make with pleasing God? Well, it have everything to make with it. See, sometimes we seek to affect Supreme Being so bad but don't cognize how. Reading your Bible just so you can state people that you read it doesn't affect God, dance in Christian church to demo off doesn't delight God, or quoting Bibles without apprehension it doesn't affect Supreme Being either. Bash you desire to cognize what affects God? Then larn how to dwell Holy. Why makes living holy affect God?

We are commanded to "be holy". Supreme Being word didn't say, "pretty delight be holy," or "I will pay you if you are holy," but "be!" ranking us. Supreme Being is impressed when you are living holy because you are being obedient to His commandments. Doesn't it experience good when person is obedient to you? That's how it is with God. He loves it when you don't set yourself in a state of affairs that causes you to fall.

He also cognizes how ambitious it can be to dwell holy on a college campus, especially in today's' society where everything is perverted. You have got to understand that He was on Earth and went through what you and I did. The Bible say, "The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us" (John 1:14). He understands exactly how you feel. However, even though he was tempted in all areas, He was without sin. Meaning he never sinned.

The windows of Heaven will open

There is a narrative about a immature adult male in the book of Genesis 37 by the name of Joseph, the boy of Francois Jacob (God later changed his name to Israel) who was sold into bondage to the Egyptians by his blood brothers because they were covetous of him.

While in Egypt, Supreme Being blessed him tremendously. However, before Supreme Being poured out his approvals on him, he was tested. Potipher (Josephs slave master) married woman was very attracted to Chief Joseph and wanted him to kip with her but he refused.

One twenty-four hours while working in the house, she grabbed a clasp of his clothes, dragging him to kip with her. In the thick of all these, he pulled away from her departure his shirt.

Joseph was only 17 old age old when that happened. At that age, I cognize his internal secretions were "kicking". He could have got easily chosen to kip with her, but he didn't. He knew that if he slept with her, it wouldn't be pleasing before God. Because of his actions, Supreme Being made him 2nd in bid in Arab Republic Of Egypt one of the top states at the time.

When you are obedient to God's word, there is no bounds of how much he will bless you. "No oculus have seen, no ear have heard, no head have conceived what Supreme Being have prepared for those who love him" (I Corinthians. 2:9) Supreme Being will honor you for your holiness.

During my first twelvemonth in college, even though I had some personal struggles. I was still able to have some of the approvals Supreme Being had for me because of His saving grace and mercy. My dada had lost his occupation because of 911. I had to back up myself. It was only by the saving grace of Supreme Being that I survived.

He blessed me academically was well. After my first semester I had a 4.0 GPA (to Supreme Being be all the glory). All my basic demands were met one manner or the other.

Is there something that you desire to have got but can't afford it? A car, house, etc, I wanted a auto my fresher but owed to my fiscal circumstances, I couldn't afford one so I had to hop on the autobus like everyone else.

Whatever it is, Supreme Being desires to bless you with it; what about your hereafter spouse? Bash you desire Supreme Being to give you anyone? I would trust not. You desire the best. There are so many ways for Supreme Being to bless you. However, when some people believe about Supreme Being approval them they only believe about mercenary things. I am not saying that there is something incorrect with that. Supreme Being can bless you any manner He chooses. Don't restrict God's approval just on mercenary things; Supreme Being desires to bless you; are you ready to have it?

A near walking with God

"Therefore submit to God. Defy the Satan and he will fly from you. Draw near to Supreme Being and He will pull near to you" (James 4:7-8 accent added). When I first came across this verse, it literally changed my life. However, I made a error most people do in that; I did not use the whole verse, but portion of it. In order to understand this verse, we have got to interrupt it down. Let me.

"Therefore submit to God." How make you submit to God? For a while, Iodine thought submitting meant to simple say, "God I submit to you." Before answering that question, let's define the word submit. To submit agency to give in to the authority, power, or desires of another.

To my surprise, submitting to Supreme Being was more than than just saying it. When you give Supreme Being your authority, powerfulness and desires, you are saying "Lord, I don't desire to be caput of my life anymore, I desire you to be in charge". Remember, Supreme Being will only travel where He is welcome. Submit is an action word, meaning you actually have got to make something. Even though aches at first, the wages however, are greater than any hurting you will travel through. Trust me.

This became more than effectual in my life after I understood the poetry better. As soon as I had that revelation, it changed my whole life. I started go more than winning in my Negro spiritual battle.

"Resist the Satan and he will fly from you." One of the inquiries I utilize to as was how can you defy the devil? When you defy the devil, you halt doing the things you utilize to do, hanging around people you utilize to hang around, watching shows or going to website that are not spiritually healthy for you. Resisting him is simple another manner of saying, "don't succumb to temptation."

The minute you halt doing the things you utilize to do, in essence, you are telling Shaytan that he have no authorization over you. You are a kid of Supreme Being and you were bought at a price. I will be very honorable with you; it takes a batch to acquire through this stage. Nevertheless, 1s you do, not everything else is as difficult.

When you halt hanging around people that negatively act upon you, it demoes that you are not willing to be corrupted by their iniquitous ways. This is one of the countries most people battle with. One of the grounds being, it can be very difficult to interrupt certain relationships/friendships with people you've known or been with for a while. But until you make that, you are not resisting the devil. You are allowing him to utilize those people to messiness up your walking with God. "Do not conform any longer to the form of this world" (Rom. 12:2).

When you halt watching certain shows like Leslie Howard stern, existent sex, Sexual Activity and the City, etc. Oregon going to uncensored websites, you are letting the Satan and his "boys" cognize that he does not have control over your mind. More work force are affected in these countries than women are. For a while, I couldn't understand why most females don't fight with the conflict of the eyes as work force do. Then I learned that work force are ocular while women are emotional. Putting crud in our head will not pull us closer to God.

"Draw near to God, and He will pull near to you." I 1s saw a t-shirt that read, "If Supreme Being looks far, who moved?" I establish that to be very interesting because sometimes we experience like Supreme Being is so far away from us. Supreme Being is as stopping point to you as your finger is to your nail. The Bibles did not say, "He will pull near to you when you pull near to Him" but rather the opposite. He is already near you, waiting for you. The more than you pull closer to him, the better your human relationship with Him will improve.

This poetry will no be effectual if you don't use all of it. Sad to state that sometimes when we read certain verses, we only take the portion we experience is more than of import to us. We are all guilty of it. When you larn to use the whole verse, it changes your life forever.

Draws others to the Jesus Of Nazareth in you

"Let your visible light so radiance before men, that they may see your good plant and glorify your father in Heaven" (Mat. 5:16).

Most of us cognize or have got come up across certain people whose walking do you desire to cognize Supreme Being better, even the unbelievers. Rich Person you ever met person and experience like you can state them anything without be afraid of everyone else knowing about it?

I retrieve one twenty-four hours after coming back from class, one of the pupils approached me and said he needed to speak to me. Helium said, "I really don't cognize you that well, I see you here and there and state hello but I experience like I can speak to you about this job I am having" I didn't cognize this guy, I had seen him on campus and our human relationship was that of a "what's up" and "bye" type. He did not cognize anything about me other than that Iodine was a Christian.

The point I am making here is that as a Christian, we should all endeavor to be like Jesus. Others should be drawn not only to the Jesus Of Nazareth in us at church, but also to the Christian Christian church in us at school, in the dorms, etc.

Learn to dwell a life style that shows others that the Supreme Being you are serving is real. And He can change you if you allow Him. So many people name themselves Christians when their actions make not reflect it.