God remembers your good work and sacrifices. Some people help other with a kind deed, serves for years without recognition teaching children, or ministers to the elderly.
Hebrew 6:10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.
Here are some great Inspirational Quotes “…let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith…” This is from Hebrews chapter 12, a very encouraging quote. The Bible is full of encouragement (and warnings) because God knows what we have to go through to live on the earth.
God feels and remembers our tears.
Psalm 58:8 You Yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your records? God can feel every discouragement and every let down. Don’t forget Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. As a man He felt the pain of living as a human on the earth just like us.
God is very confident that He can finish the work He started in You. Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: God does not get discouraged when He looks at us and observes us. He knows the purpose He created each of us for and never gives up on us. We get depressed, but God is never depressed. We get low, but God is not low. We get worried, but God is not worried. Our anxiety and concern level gets high, but God is not worried.
In Romans chapter 8 it says the Spirit helps us pray — Romans 8:26 the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
We have a passage in the book of Colossians. Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell (or remain) in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs , singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Just the first part of that verse says, “Let the word of Christ remain or dwell in you richly”. I believe that this is talking about the Word of God referred to, here, and the word that God speaks to us personally. By the way, the word God speaks to us personally should always correspond to this Bible. It should never contradict it. That is a good test.
Gideon Asks God to Prove Himself
There is an Old Testament story of a man named Gideon. We don’t have time to get into much detail, but God was speaking to him about raising an army to defeat the enemy of the Lord. God spoke in a definite way to him. Gideon heard it but I believe Gideon was afraid because he said, “Well, God, I am not sure if I’m really supposed to this, or not supposed to do this.” He, then, put out the fleece for God. He said, “If You really spoke to me, then please make the fleece wet by the morning.” Some people read that story and conclude that when you think God is speaking to you, you should put out a fleece to make the Lord prove Himself to you—-that yes, that was really the Lord speaking. The point of that story was not an encouragement to do that sort of thing, because when God speaks, God speaks. Gideon definitely heard the voice of the Lord, but because of his fear, and because of his slowness to hear what God was asking him to do, and his slowness to do what God wanted him to do, he was asking God for some kind of sign. In the book of Matthew, we read that some of the religious people were asking Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for some kind of sign from heaven that He was really the Messiah. Matthew 12:39, “But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign…” In other words, it is evil if you are not willing to listen to what He says or what He speaks to you. That is kind of a strong word, there. Anyway, that is the story of Gideon. Gideon, not really wanting to obey God, was asking God for some kind of a sign to prove to him that it was really Him speaking, and yet all the time, Gideon knew in his heart that it was God speaking to him. Eventually Gideon followed through with what God wanted to do.
This blog was taken from a video on Drew’s YouTube channel.
The Children of Israel Disobey God and Suffer Discipline
Now, we want to look at the example of the children of Israel in the Old Testament. God had delivered them from slavery in Egypt and brought them into their own land, the land of Canaan. God told them that as long as they served Him, the true God, and kept the sacrifices, and did the things He commanded them to do, He would preserve them in that land. The people obeyed for a while, but eventually they decided to do their own thing. They began to worship other gods and do things God wasn’t happy with. God sent several prophets to them during that time. One of the big prophets was Jeremiah. Another one was Ezekiel. God kept speaking to His people and warning them. He basically said to them, “If you continue in this unrighteous way and continue to disobey Me, I will allow an enemy to come in and capture you.” Sure enough, that is what happened. God allowed the enemy to come in and devastate His people. Did God send this enemy or allow it? God had warned His people over and over again through prophet after prophet, “If you don’t obey Me, and if you don’t do the things I proscribed for you to do through Moses, then I will allow the enemy to come in, and that enemy will devastate you. “ The people absolutely ignored the prophets. They ignored Jeremiah. They ignored Ezekiel and other prophets. God allowed Assyria to come in, the Egyptians and eventually the Babylonians to come in. They burned a lot of the cities and did a lot of damage, and took many Israelites captive back to Babylon. Why did God allow that to happen? Number one, His people were not doing the things He told them to do. Just like Jonah got himself into a lot of trouble because he didn’t go where God told him to go, so the children of Israel had problems with their enemies because they did not obey the voice of the Lord and do the things that He wanted them to do.
But check the end of the Bible, God does not give up on His people. He still wanted Israel to fulfill the original intention, purpose, and burden that He had for Israel. God eventually gets His way for all of us.