Our God is sovereign

August 31 2018

Who is regulating affairs on this earth today-God, or the Devil? That God reigns supreme in Heaven is generally conceded; that He does so over this world, is almost universally denied-if not directly, then indirectly. More and more are men in their philosophizing and theorizing relegating God to the background. Take the material realm. Not only is it denied that God created everything by personal and direct action, but few believe that He has any immediate concern in regulating the works of His own hands. Everything is supposed to be ordered according to the (impersonal and abstract) "laws of Nature." Thus is the Creator banished from His own creation. Therefore we need not be surprised that men, in their degrading conceptions, exclude Him from the realm of human affairs. Throughout Christendom, with an almost negligible exception, the theory is held that man is "a free agent," and therefore, lord of his fortunes and the determiner of his destiny. That Satan is to be blamed for much of the evil which is in the world is freely affirmed by those who, though having so much to say about "the responsibility of man," often deny their own responsibility, by attributing to the Devil what, in fact, proceeds from their own evil hearts.

Mar 7:21 For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,

Mar 7:22 commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly---

Mar 7:23 all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean."

Rom 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Rom 11:34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"

Rom 11:35 "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"

Rom 11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Our God is a sovereign God!

Our God is sovereign

August 30 2018

Act 17:28 for "'In him we live and move and have our being

What a sweeping assertion is this! These words, be it noted, were addressed, not to one of the churches of God, not to a company of saints who had reached an exalted plane of spirituality, but to a heathen audience, to those who worshiped "the unknown God" and who "mocked" when they heard of the resurrection of the dead. And yet, to the Athenian philosophers, to the Epicureans and Stoics, the Apostle Paul did not hesitate to affirm that they lived and moved and had their being in God, which signified not only that they owed their existence and preservation to the One who made the world and all things therein, but also that their very actions were encompassed and therefore controlled by the Lord of Heaven and earth.

Our God is sovereign

August 29 2018

Amo 4:7 "I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

Amo 4:8 so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied;;;

It is God who withholds the rain, and it is God who gives the rain when He wills, where He wills, as He wills, and on whom He wills. Weather Bureaus may attempt to give forecasts of the weather, but how frequently God mocks their calculations!

Our God is sovereign

August 28 2018

Psa 147:15 He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

Psa 147:16 He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

Psa 147:17 He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?

Psa 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.

Even your insurance company knows that God is sovereign and that they will not insure some things call, “an act of God.”

Our God is sovereign

August 27 2018

Mar 4:39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Mar 4:40 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"

Mar 4:41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

In answer to their question “who then is this?” It is the sovereign God, the creator of the wind.

Our God is sovereign

August 26 2018

Pro 16:4 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Some would, “well God can't do that, its not right!” I choose to let God be God.

Our God is sovereign

August 25 2018

Mat 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

If you know the Father, it is because of His sovereign will in that the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Our God is sovereign

August 24 2018

2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

God is the one who gives you repentance. And the one who lets us grow; Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Heb 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Heb 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.

Our God is sovereign

August 23 2018

Psa 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Psa 135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Did you ever wonder why a rose has thorns, and lilies do not? Or why one flower has a sweet aroma and another does not? And why does some plants flower many times in a season and another only once in a century?

Because “whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did He.”

Our God is sovereign

August 22 2018

Act 4:26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'—

Act 4:27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

Act 4:28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

When you see evil in the world, or even in your own heart, do what ever you can to eradicate it. But remember that the most horrendous act of evil in all creation, the crucifixion of the very Son of God, was in the predestined will of God. You do not know what God is doing! God alone is sovereign God, and you are not.

Our God is sovereign

August 21 2018

Psa 33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psa 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

Don't live your life in a panic or live in fear all the time, take comfort in the sovereignty of God.

Our God is sovereign

August 20 2018

Pro 21:1 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

When the leader of the land makes a decision that you don't like think about this.

Our God is sovereign

August 19 2018

Dan 2:21 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings;

When it is time to vote you need to vote, and you need to pray about your vote. And if the outcome is in your favor or not, know that God is the one that removes kings and set up kings.

Our God is sovereign

August 18 2018

Job 1:21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

Do all that you do as a good steward and always know that you do not have controller of the future, but God does.

Our God is sovereign

August 17 2018

Jas 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"—

Jas 4:14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Jas 4:15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

Jas 4:16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Any time you make plans, say that if it is Gods will. Because it is His will that will prevail. He is the controller of all.

Our God is sovereign

August 16 2018

Rev 4:11 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."

A question that has been around forever, and will be ask in the future is; “why are we here?”

In answer to that question read the above verse again. Know that God is “Sovereign God,” and that you are here because He put you here for His glory!

Our God is sovereign

August 15 2018

Deu 32:39 "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

I know that death is, to us, a tragic thing, and I wish that I never have to lose a loved one, but we will all go through that. But, you know what? It is in the hand of our God! So take comfort in that.

Our God is sovereign

August 14 2018

1Ti 6:13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,

1Ti 6:14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Ti 6:15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

1Ti 6:16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

To say that God is Sovereign is to declare that He is the "Only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords"

Our God is sovereign

August 13 2018

Dan 4:35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?"

We take comfort in knowing that God is doing according to his will, and that we cannot change what He has done.

Our God is sovereign

August 12 2018

1Ch 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.

By declaring that God is Sovereign, we mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the god-hood of God, and that God is God and we are not.

Our God is sovereign

August 11 2018

Job 37:9 From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

Job 37:11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Job 37:12 They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

Job 37:13 Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

He causes it to happen! The weather is not by chance. The weather, no matter how severe or gentle is caused by God.

Our God is sovereign

August 10 2018

Psa 147:16 He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

Psa 147:17 He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?

Psa 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.

Even the snow, hail, wind and all weather are controlled by our Sovereign God.

Our God is sovereign

August 9 2018

Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

If you have ever been somewhere away from lights at night and looked up, I mean somewhere way away from lights, and looked up (you will know the differences) then you got a look at the great expanse of stars. It is amazing the amount of them, and you can only see a few. Yet your God sees them all and He gave them their names. And if God knows when a sparrow falls to the ground, then He knows when one of His stars goes out. How much more important are His children?

Our God is sovereign

August 8 2018

Jon 4:7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.

Jon 4:8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint.

No matter what it is, a dead bird in the forest, or a worm in the ground, God is the controller of it all.

Our God is sovereign

August 7 2018

Jon 4:6 Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

God is in control of nature, plants and animals, and all things.

Our God is sovereign

August 6 2018

Jon 1:17 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.

Don't try to run and hide from God. If need be He will appoint a great fish to deal with your sin. Or whatever is appropriate for your sin. You may ask, is God bringing this bad thing into my life to punish me for trying to run and hide? The fish was not to punish Jonah, no, it was to save him.

Our God is sovereign

August 5 2018

Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Mat 10:30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Don't ever think that your situation is to small, or that it is insignificant to the LORD. Nothing is left to chance, there is no chance. Even a dead bird in the forest, or the amount of hairs that you lost yesterday, God knows, and not one thing happens apart from your Father.

Our God is sovereign

August 4 2018

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

There is no such thing as “chance” God is in control. We say things like, “what are the chances of this or that?” The bible say things like, “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”

Our God is sovereign

August 3 2018

Eph 1:11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Eph 1:12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

He works ALL THINGS according to the counsel of HIS WILL, to the praise of HIS GLORY! And you are not stronger than God, you cannot mess it up.

Our God is sovereign

August 2 2018

Isa 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,

Pay attentions to the way He said this; Declaring, not I see what will happen so therefore I choose that, no, but declaring. God said here that what ever happens I declare it! What ever happens I accomplish it, because My counsel shall stand, I will accomplish all My purpose.

Our God is sovereign

August 1 2018

Sovereign is our God!

Isa 46:8 "Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors,

Isa 46:9 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isa 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

Isa 46:11 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

This month we will look at our God's sovereignty. God is sovereign, completely sovereign, not just over some things, not just over the “important stuff” but over all. He is totally, and completely in control. In control of the car that just missed you, and the dust particle that floats in the sunshine that comes through your window. EVERYTHING is controlled by God!

What about adversity? What about an unhappy marriage, or a failed one?

The misscarrige we had?

Or my spiritually rebellious child?

Unfulfilled dreams, a job loss. A lack of a promotion when I have worked so hard and have been so good for the company.

Loneliness, rejection.

What if I am told I have an inoperable tumor, that will lead to death?

What if you have a severely handicapped child that will never get any better?

You cannot think of anything that is out of the control of God! God has spoken it and He will bring it to pass. declaring the end from the beginning