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Scriptures Referenced
1. God’s discipline
Hebrews 12:5-11 And have you completely forgotten this word
of encouragement that addresses you
as a father addresses his son?
It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
Endure hardship as discipline;
God is treating you as his children.
For what children are not disciplined by their father?
If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline
—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us
and we respected them for it. How much more should
we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best;
but God disciplines us for our good, in order that
we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant
at the time, but painful. Later on, however,
it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace
for those who have been trained by it.
Proverbs 3:11-13 My child, do not reject the Lord’s
discipline, and don’t get angry when he corrects you.
The Lord corrects those he loves, just as parents correct
the child they delight in. Happy is the person who finds
wisdom, the one who gets understanding.
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2. So you can become more dependent on the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 Each time he said,
“My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.”
So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ can work through me.
That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses,
and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and
troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak,
then I am strong.
John 15:5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches.
Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit.
For apart from me you can do nothing.
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3. God wants you to spend time with HIM, but
you lost your first love.
Revelation 2:2-5Amplified Bible (AMP)
2 ‘I know [a]your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance,
and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and
critically appraised those who call themselves apostles
(special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ),
and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and
are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary
[of being faithful to the truth].
4 But I have this [charge] against you,
that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].
5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent
[change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—
seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first
[when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand
(the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
4. JESUS CHRIST Always Protects you from
a bigger problem that cannot see coming.
Psalm 121:5-8 The Lord guards you.
The Lord is the shade that protects you from the sun.
The sun cannot hurt you during the day, and the moon
cannot hurt you at night. The Lord will protect you
from all dangers; HE will guard your life.
The Lord will guard you as you come and go,
both now and forever.
Psalm 9:7-10 But the Lord rules forever.
He sits on his throne to judge, and he will judge the world
in fairness; he will decide what is fair for the nations.
The Lord defends those who suffer; he defends them
in times of trouble. Those who know the Lord trust him,
because he will not leave those who come to him.
Psalm 37:5New King James Version (NKJV)
5 Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluat
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
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Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, Today the power of Christ Daily 22 January 2016 why Jesus Christ allows trials Part 4 Some of you may be wondering why this is going on to so many parts. Because this is critical. All of us face
trouble.
00:19 Sometimes daily, sometimes from time to time, and then when. But God’s word is very clear. Jesus says he will not allow more trouble.
00:28 He will not allow. He will not allow temptation. More temptation than you can bear.
00:28 He will not allow more trouble than you can bear. That means he knows what our heart and mind and all can bear. Particularly when he’s trying to bring a soul.
00:45 When he wants to get a soul back to him whom he creates, that he wants a soul back to Him. He will allow trials, but he will not allow the trial. Such a manner allow doesn’t cause trouble.
00:57 He doesn’t create trouble. That’s all the devil does. But he allows.
01:01 He allows to appoint until the soul turns to him. Because only he will know that particular soul, how broken hearted the soul has to be before it turns to the living God. Like my case, I had to go so much.
01:16 Most people would have not survived or given up or cursed God or whatever they would have done, which I was already doing earlier. And then he brings me because he loves me. Even though I was doing all this thing, doing bad words against him and
all, he still turns me around and draws me and brings me to a point because he allows the troubles on and on and on to a point that I’m not going to.
01:39 He doesn’t allow me to kill myself. He doesn’t allow me that. He does not allow me to die off.
01:39 He doesn’t allow the devil to kill me, doesn’t allow me to kill me. And he brings me to a point. Until that brokenhearted then recognizes because our heart is so wicked, it must be broken to the point to realize, hey, I am useless.
01:57 I am useless. I cannot handle this. I need the living God, the Creator.
02:02 I need the One who created me. And then he turns us to him who He Himself suffered, went on the cross, suffered on the cross, still died, went to hell, came out and he took all our pain, suffering, sickness and all that. And then he makes us see.
02:23 And you know when our hearts will begin to see. When our heart got enough trouble, only then our hearts are going to see this. Otherwise our wicked heart is going to still follow the world, follow our desires, follow.
02:37 I want, I want, I want. Like a supermarket child, I call them supermarket children scream and follow and roll over in the supermarket until the mother gave it to them. So that kind of children we are.
02:49 Actually, I was. Because in the spiritual plane, that’s what I’m doing. Because I don’t care what Jesus says, I don’t care what God says.
02:56 I continue doing so the trouble has to be allowed. So we have to deal with this. Why? Troubles come because many mistakes struggle as if God cost it.
03:06 And then the devil confuses them to the point. Because we cannot know the precepts of Christ. Our eyes of understanding are veiled.
03:15 There’s a veil over the eyes of our understanding, the eyes of our heart. There’s a veil. So we won’t turn.
03:22 Because until we turn to Christ, the veil will be there. So the devil keeps on duping us and we light it because we love the world. We are comparing people of the world, things of the world, all these fleshly desires, the carnal self, the world
itself, the fleshly self.
03:39 We are following that. So we are not willing to follow what Jesus said. Because the things of the spirit cannot be understood by the carnal mind.
03:47 The things of the spirit cannot be understood by the worldly mind. The things of the spirit cannot be understood by the fallen nature, unconverted mind. Therefore, Jesus says, you must be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
04:00 Even after coming to him. We have to renew ourselves in the spirit of mind by how? By reading the scriptures, meditating on the scriptures, looking at our case, looking at our own individual cases and comparing it with Scripture and seeing are we
measuring up with the word of God. And then when we know we don’t measure up all what we do in the name of Jesus Christ, that’s all you know.
04:22 Can you imagine? Can you imagine? In the name of Jesus Christ, we begin to command our heart and mind and begin to take the blood, Appreciate the blood of Jesus Christ. Lord, it’s your blood who suffers. You shed blood for me.
04:39 You begin to have awe and reverence. When you have awe and reverence, that’s the fear of God. Fear of God is actually awe and reverence.
04:46 The devil has do people to say, my brother Jesus Christ calls me brother Jesus Christ. All that drives away the awe and reverence over Christ, removes the awe and reverence from your heart, does not allow awe and reverence for Jesus Christ. That is
why so many of us are suffering.
05:01 We cannot get the benefit because we don’t have reverence for Christ. That is why now we have to deal with this regularly. So these things can come deep into us.
05:11 That God doesn’t cause the sufferings. The God of The world as Satan, which is a created being fallen rebellion against Christ is the one Rebellion against Christ, who is the creator. Now we dealt with it.
05:28 We follow something yesterday. God’s discipline. God’s discipline.
05:31 Yesterday we talked about it, you see, in Hebrews 12, 5. And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement? This was amazing to me. Why many people think when people are rebuked and all that, oh, these are not encouraging me.
05:47 But the word of God says, look, this is the encouragement. Listen to what the rest of the word of God says. What is Jesus saying us through this word? What is Jesus? The word of God is Jesus Christ.
05:58 Have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? He says, my son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline. It’s a command, it’s a rebuke. And do not lose heart when he rebukes you.
06:15 He’s saying do not lose, make light of the Lord’s discipline. Do not take it lightly. Just like that.
06:21 Okay. The pastor stole, the elder stole. Oh, the brother stole.
06:25 I’m wrong. And this and that. Oh, I don’t care, you know, they are all wrong.
06:29 Do not, do not, do not lose heart when he rebukes you. That means when you lose heart. You don’t understand his encouragement because God is calling all this encouragement because the Lord disciplines the ones he loves.
06:45 He is rebuking you through the word of God means when two or three are gathered and telling you this is wrong, they actually love you. Why do you only want to hear the flattering? He said you are the greatest guy in town. You are the greatest girl
in town.
06:57 You are the greatest person in town. You want to hear that? Only laugh because your heart likes this. Well, those fellows who are flat dress are cheating you.
07:05 The fellows who are trying to say you are nice and this and that don’t listen. Girls, don’t be silly. This happens when school days are.
07:11 I saw fellows go tell some sweet things to a girl. The girl and we will know the character of the fellow. We know the character of the fellow and we fella sitting down there, what this character is such a character.
07:22 This girl and the girls love him. Why? He just lies. He lies to you and your heart wants to hear those lies.
07:31 He wants to tell you that you are beautiful. When you are feeling so bad and all and you begin to like it and you do not understand. God made you beautiful in the spirit, but you want to look at the earthly beauty and then people are shunning you or
whatever and then People, I mean, you yourself are shunning you maybe because you want a perfect face at a Hollywood Bollywood face.
07:53 And you think the rest of the faces are ugly because you have conned yourself, you deceived yourself. And then you buy a lot of stuff and put on your face. And then this guy comes along and tells you this.
08:04 That’s why married women after a while have this problem. Men have this problem. So just have to tell some nice things and you fall.
08:14 Now this God said, look at the people who are actually correcting you because they care for you, they love you. Father God said, this is encouragement. I am correcting you.
08:25 I am rebuking you because you are my child, you are my son, otherwise you are a bastard. Some translation saying bastard, but this one says you are illegitimate. Now, brothers and sisters, we move on because of time again.
08:40 Now the other thing is so you can be more dependent on God. We must become God dependent. So God allows the trouble.
08:47 Because otherwise we become too big for our boots, as they say. I was too big for my boots. Thinking I handled.
08:54 I’ve handled because we have been trained, you know, from young. I’ve been trained that I’ve been thinking, I’ve trained myself also by reading motivational books and all that. I must stand, I must do.
09:04 I must. Yes, it works. But we forget about the devil who came to steal, kill and destroy.
09:10 We forget about the pride that come before the fall. We forget about pride that causes destruction. We forget about all that.
09:18 So what happens? So God with his infinite mercy allows a trouble to the point you can bear. And he knows he will keep on increasing, allowing the increasing trouble until you turn to him. That is mercy.
09:30 That is mercy. Trouble in our flesh, trouble in our lives troubles the world. He allows it for us.
09:39 Allows. He doesn’t create. Doesn’t create.
09:42 Big industry allows. Until you turn to him and say you are Jesus Christ. Am I surprised? You know, some people, lot of trouble, got his own turn.
09:50 I also didn’t with a lot of trouble. So until finally something because he loves me so much, he something. He allows, keep on checking, keep on doing.
10:00 Keep on doing. Because you know, he focuses on his son. He focuses on you.
10:06 He eyes on you. His eyes on you. So when the trouble coming, you better understand his eyes on you.
10:08 His eyes on you. You are not far from his heart. You are the path of his hand.
10:17 He doesn’t want you to mess up. He’s always allowing, allowing. He doesn’t want you to mess up for eternity.
10:17 He doesn’t want you to be messed up for eternity with nothing in your hands and gone. He wants you to become the child and son of God that you were supposed to be by loving even your enemies and gives you power to do that. So this is the issue.
10:38 So when his eyes on you and you’re still doing wrong. I’m doing still wrong. His eyes on me.
10:41 His eyes on me. Allow some more. Allow some more.
10:45 But doesn’t allow to die, doesn’t allow to become destroyed. Destroyed completely. Reverend as the word says, pressed all around, but not crushed.
10:56 Struck down, but destroyed. Perplexed, but not in despair. He said, we are like that.
11:02 Apostle Paul says that we are like that. We may be perplexed. Perplexed means, oh, don’t know what’s going on, what is going on here.
11:10 But we are not in despair because we know we are Son of God who loves us. He is our Father. He loves us.
11:17 He died on the cross and rose again. He is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We are crushed all around, but cannot be crushed.
11:24 We struck down, but cannot be destroyed. So if you remember these words and meditate on this, when the trouble comes, you know, ah, this is God. Is that Jesus Christ, my Son of God, my Father, who is allowing me, allowing this because of my own
doing.
11:37 I causing this. So allowing me to turn, turn, turn, get closer to him, Become dependent on him. I must become dependent on him.
11:44 If you take that heart, you’ll see this whole thing will work for you. You don’t take that decision and you know why? Why? Why God? I served you so long and you do this. Why God? Why? I feel so sad and sorry for pastors, for servants of God who
don’t understand the fundamental love of Jesus Christ.
12:02 He is not causing anything to us. We, we, we, we are doing it. And yet when the thing comes, we don’t want to see what we did.
12:12 What I sow, I reap. No, you don’t see what the devil is doing. How you give a foothold.
12:16 We don’t see, but we are seeing. You know what? Why God didn’t help me. Why God? That’s the worst thing you can do.
12:23 Don’t talk like this, please, I beg you. I know this God who loves me. He loves you.
12:29 He loves you. Take the blame, take the accountability. You alone are responsible for your nonsense.
12:38 I alone am responsible for my nonsense. So please admit it. Admit it.
12:44 Confess and then examine first. You know how to confess now. God wants you to spend time with him.
12:52 Some places they’ll say, God wants to spend time with you. Hey, God is complete. It’s another misunderstanding that comes here and there.
12:54 God wants to need to spend time with you. Like he doesn’t need anything. The Bible says he doesn’t need anything.
13:07 He’s complete and whole. God wants you to spend time with him. God wants me to spend time with him.
13:14 Because you know why? For my sake, son, spend time with me. Come be with me. Be energized and charged and go one of the ways we’re going to do this.
13:23 Son, be among the children of God who are true disciples, not false disciples doing some rubbish. True disciples be with them. When two or three are gathered, son, I come there, I’m amidst you.
13:34 Please be among two or three gathered together. Why I want you to spend time with me? Why I want you to spend time with me? Because you will energize. All the rubbish will relieve you.
13:45 Demons will flee. Because you’re spending time with me. Because I’m with you.
13:49 And so you spend time with him. Even anytime, driving. Also you can spend time with him.
13:55 You’re cooking also you can spend time with him. Because you can cook also auto cook, you know you can auto cook. Because why some of the dishes I repeat orders just repeat only it’s auto cook.
14:08 Of course he’ll protect you. Of course you got sound mind. You’re not going to have the thing boiling and over boiling and all that.
14:14 But then you’re thinking from time to time, what a wonderful Jesus Christ. He loves you. He loves you.
14:21 But I don’t obey, Lord, I want to obey. I want to obey. I want to please you.
14:23 I want to love you. I want to obey your commandments. You begin to talk like this or talk to your heart and mind because he has a problem.
14:33 But in the name of Jesus Christ, they will be overcome by you. God wants you to spend time with him so that for your sake. Okay, so there are scriptures, you know.
14:42 I know your deeds, but you lost your first love. Revelation 2, 2, 5 is, I know your deeds, I know your toil, I know your patience and your but lost job. I got something against you.
14:53 In verse four it says two verse four, Revelation. But I have something against you. I get discharged against you.
14:59 You have lost your first love. And he wants us to love him for our sake. Get this straight.
15:04 It’s not that he’s needy. He’s not needy. He’s complete, he’s whole.
15:08 He. He’s almighty God. Now the same time, the other thing is this.
15:13 There are. Sometimes people will say things, I mean ridiculous, you know? Now, for instance, one thing they used to Teach us. Pray the word of God back to God.
15:25 Pray back to God. And it bothered my spirit because they tell you take the word of God and break with God. Remind God about his word.
15:33 And I used to think, is God forgetful? Remind God of the word of his promises. Remind God of his promises. Is he forgetful? He said, look here, he cannot forgive.
15:45 He only forgets sin. You know, he forgives our sin and forgets. He said, I cannot remember from like east to west.
15:51 But he cannot forget his own words. It’s the truth. He’s God.
15:55 He’s almighty. It’s not that forget. It’s not that.
16:00 We have to use the word of God back to him. We begin to pray the word of God, the promises. So we remind ourselves.
16:07 They command our heart and mind to know these new things. Know the promises to remind the promises to ourselves. It’s actually when we are going to pray the words of God back.
16:15 The promises of God back. It is actually for us. Then I wise up this for me.
16:22 These people are talking nonsense about praying the word of God back to remind God because they take one or two obscure scriptures from the Old Testament and then some prophet would have said, I remind you of something. God dealt it. God gave him.
16:34 You know, overlook his nonsense. But you bring the word of God the promises for yourself. Don’t think you’re going to remind him.
16:42 Have all reverence for him. He’s powerful. He’s almighty.
16:46 And he loves you. He loves you. He loves you.
16:49 He loves me. I know he loves me. You better know he loves you.
16:54 In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
