Christian Support Group Community Group
This is a place for everyone who loves Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior (or those who are seeking Him), to come and discuss important issues in their lives and find support from fellow believers in regards to their faith and life. We uphold the Bible and living a Christ-like life, not as a way to heaven, but as a reflection of our love for God.
You will get nothing unless you go after it. God will not force anything on you.
You may have as much as you insist upon having. “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you,” said God to Joshua, and this principle runs throughout the entire Bible. The history of Israel is dotted with stories of those who pressed boldly on to claim their possessions; such, for instance, as Caleb who, after the conquest of Canaan, went to Joshua, demanded the mountain Moses had promised him, and got it.
Again, when the daughters of Zelophehad stood before Moses and pleaded, “Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father,” their request was granted. Those women received their inheritance, not by the indulgence of Moses but by the command of God whose promise was involved.
When our requests are such as honor God we may ask as largely as we will. The more daring the request the more glory accrues to God when the answer comes.
(from "That Incredible Christian" by A. W. Tozer)
OUR UNCLAIMED RICHES continued
3. You will have as little as you are satisfied with . God gives to all men liberally, but it would be absurd to think that God’s liberality will make a man more godly than he wants to be. The man, for instance, who is satisfied to live a defeated life will never be forced to take victory. The man who is content to follow Christ afar off will never know the radiant wonder of His nearness. The man who is willing to settle for a joyless, barren life will never experience the joy of the Holy Spirit or the deep satisfaction of fruitful living.
It is disheartening to those who care, and surely a great grief to the Spirit, to see how many Christians are content to settle for less than the best. Personally I have for years carried a burden of sorrow as I have moved among evangelical Christians who somewhere in their past have managed to strike a base compromise with their heart’s holier longings and have settled down to a lukewarm, mediocre kind of Christianity utterly unworthy of themselves and of the Lord they claim to serve. And such are found everywhere. (by A.W. Tozer)