A Philosophy of Life: Strategically Ordered Steps

Joel @ Lakewood

God is not random. He will use everything because hers strategic. He may not have sent it but if He allowed it then He can use it.
Judges 14:4 MSG

(His father and mother had no idea that God was behind this, that he was arranging an opportunity against the Philistines. At the time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.)

The very steps we take come from God; otherwise how would we know where we're going?

"Come closer to me," Joseph said to his brothers. They came closer. "I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt. But don't feel badly, don't blame yourselves for selling me. God was behind it. God sent me here ahead of you to save lives. There has been a famine in the land now for two years; the famine will continue for five more years—neither plowing nor harvesting. God sent me on ahead to pave the way and make sure there was a remnant in the land, to save your lives in an amazing act of deliverance. So you see, it wasn't you who sent me here but God. He set me in place as a father to Pharaoh, put me in charge of his personal affairs, and made me ruler of all Egypt.

He was his Fathers favorite but he got put on a detour. Joseph kept being faithful and through betrayal in a pit , in slavery , and in jail he ended up 2nd in command positioned to save Gods people.

God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."

Don't get overwhelmed by The problem because its part of the process to get you to the promise.
God is always working for my good.

Victoria Osteen

IF 1 faint, then I will miss what aod is doing. The enemy Wants me to become unconscious to God's word.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit
thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored.

Whatever you tend to Is what will produce fruit. This is why we need to be one put what we meditate on.

Sunday, January 19, 2014