SHAWN L. BAILEY-BOOK RELEASE - DON'T LET THE TITLE FOOL YOU
AUTHOR'S REMARKS
To all my followers and fellow readers: In our lives, people have Intentions, some good-some bad. When it appears that these are the people that are helping you, most of the time these are the ones that are holding you back. But people's Intentions would never line up with God's purpose and plans for your life.
Every action God takes has not only a divine purpose, but also an eternal consequence. Nothing that God does is trivial. Even the hard things to understand, we may not understand God's purpose, but we can Trust Him.
says, I know that you can do everything and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you.
Writing this book, I had some of the most difficult experiences with people close to me. But what I learned through their distractions God had already had a purpose and plan for this book to reach many readers worldwide. I want to give all Honor, Glory, and Praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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I Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not helpful.
All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Mighty Men and Women, it's never good to turn your back on people because when God has his hands on them, you never know where He's taking them to.
Having faith in people is the same as having faith in God. We are his children and just as we have faith in God, we should have faith in our brothers and sisters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 and he said I will hide my faith from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very froward generation, Children in whom is no faith.
Sometimes we have faith but in the wrong things. We should place our faith in God and his children.
When God has laid foundation in your life, nothing or no one can stop what God set forth in your life to build. It is God who sets the prime time in your life to build. Those that try to block your success only destroys the plans in their lives that God has for them. We ought to love each other in the same way God loves us.
AUTHOR'S SPIRITUAL NUGGET
Jeremiah 37:6
Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet, saying...the truth may not always make you popular, but as Jesus said it will always make you free.
Because Jeremiah consistently told the truth to king Zedekiah, he ended up in prison. Listen, you can imprison a man's body, but you cannot imprison his spirit. Jeremiah was released from prison, but the king lost his kingdom and was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar. His sons were murdered before him. They put out his eyes, bonded him in bronze fetters, and placed him in prison until the day of his death.
The truth may not seem appropriate at the present, but the end results of this will always prevail. You do not have to tell everything you know, but what you do decide to tell must be the truth. Anything less than the truth is a lie; and as the Apostle John wrote, "no lie is of the truth." Remember the words of Jesus when he described himself; he said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."
WHEN IT'S GOOD TO SUFFER - PSALM 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now I keep your word.
God loves us enough to allow us to be afflicted. It has been said that God whispers. God whispers to us in the good times of life but he shouts to us in the hard times. I have found this to be so. Afflictions have a way of getting us focused on the things of God more than good fortune. It does not have to be, but it seems that in our human nature we are lax when happy. I am more than sure that if we stay close to Christ in the good times of life that there will be fewer hard times. Nevertheless, the greatest growth comes through suffering.
Look at verse 71-"it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statues. - It is good to suffer. It is not pleasant, but it is good. Therefore, even in our suffering we can find joy, not necessarily happiness, but the joy of the Lord. When we stray from the Lord again, He loves us enough to get our attention.