Dr. Mike Jones

A passage of scripture that shares light on the statement that I just made is Psalm 37 :4,5, “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring [it] to pass.”Notice two things from these verses, God is the one birthing “His desires” into YOUR heart and these verses are conditional; Delight in the Lord and then, He shall give YOU the desires of your heart. You can also reverse this passage; If you don’t trust in the Lord, He won’t give you the desires of your heart. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33)

4.   In Dr. Margaret Paul’s book “Love and Power: Earthy vs. Spiritual”, she makes an interesting observation in terms of how some people perceive God – that He uses me to help others, but I shouldn’t expect Him to come to assist me when I have a need. She said, “When we do believe in God but feel ourselves unlovable and unworthy, we may believe that we can be instruments of God’s love for others but not for ourselves. Sometimes children are taught that they are nothing, that their only worth is in helping others. Their goal becomes – to give God’s love to others so others will give love to them. This belief system fosters the giving-to-get behavior of co-dependent relationships. This is rampant in the helping professions.” “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” (Luke 6:38)

Misconceptions about God over the years have blinded saints to the “Sovereignty” of God’s will. When you want to know God’s sovereignty over a situation, you must ask yourself a few basic questions: * Is God all knowing and all powerful? * If He’s all powerful, He can stop troubles from coming to pass? And * If He permits the situation to occur, then, it’s ordained? You’re not going to avoid trouble in this life, but God’s Word points the way to peace and joy in the mist of your storms.

(See Jeremiah 17:7-10, “Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings;” and Psalm 147:3-5, “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by [their] names. Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: His understanding [is] infinite.”)