{"id":56965,"date":"2019-01-03T06:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=56965"},"modified":"2019-01-03T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:05:04","slug":"51-unless-indeed-you-fail-to-meet-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/03\/51-unless-indeed-you-fail-to-meet-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"51. Unless indeed you fail to meet the test!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deuteronomy 13:3<\/strong> \u00a0 <\/span>For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him<\/p>\n

Psalms 66:10<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For you, O God, have tested us<\/p>\n

Matthew 24:24<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.<\/p>\n

2 Thessalonians 2:11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,<\/p>\n

1 John 4:4<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 13:5-7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?\u2014unless indeed you fail to meet the test!\u00a0\u00a0I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.\u00a0\u00a0But we pray to God that you may not do wrong\u2014not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God\u2019s testing is a gift from Him to us.\u00a0 <\/span>We can experience new areas of faith as we grow through these testings.\u00a0 <\/span>It is possible for us to see our heart\u2019s \u201cfaith\u201d status in and through these testings?\u00a0 <\/span>The answer to this is yes if we have determined (Faith) that God is sovereign, in control of everything, has power over everything, and sees and knows everything before it happens.\u00a0 <\/span>The answer is no if we have determined (lukewarm or nonexistent Faith)\u00a0 <\/span>that God is not in control, He is not powerful enough, and He does not know or see my troubles.<\/p>\n

When we have faith in God all things are possible.\u00a0 <\/span>We can run to Him in our testing trials and tell Him our anxious worrisome thoughts and seek His refuge, strength, courage, and power to carry us through.<\/p>\n

When we don\u2019t have faith in a loving, all powerful, all knowing God we go it alone.\u00a0 <\/span>We worry. We complain. We have a pity party. We get angry. We feel alone. We seek self-solutions. We doubt God. We lose hope. We lose peace. We have no rest.<\/p>\n

I recently read a commentary that said \u201cGod tests our hearts. He wants to know, to find out, to see for Himself, through the circumstances that He creates or allows to occur, what our reaction will be. He does not assume; He does not presume that He already knows. God tests and He is watching.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>This is \u201cSO WRONG<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 God does know. It is because of His steadfast love that He is giving us the opportunity to see our heart faith, so we can confess, repent, and turn away from unbelief.<\/p>\n

God tests us to show us the faith status of our heart, the commitment status of our soul, and to allow us joy, peace, rest, comfort, and hope when we seek refuge in Him and place the burden of the test into His hands.<\/p>\n

When you are walking through a time of testing rejoice!\u00a0 <\/span>Because if in this time of testing you seek and desire God\u2019s refuge you will experience and see how awesome God is, you will witness His power, you will grow in faith, and worship, honor, and glorify Him in new and deeper ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy 13:3 \u00a0 For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold … Continue reading “51. Unless indeed you fail to meet the test!\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1918,8864,8689,392,1706,5772,4503,2,564,8862,3660,4,8860,3945,1057,8863,8867,8866,1322,103,6015,546,8865,849,226,2547,1707,8861,6699,637,322],"class_list":["post-56965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-arise","tag-believe-what-is-false","tag-do-what-is-right","tag-elect","tag-examine-yourselves","tag-fail-to-meet-the-test","tag-failed","tag-faith","tag-fear-him","tag-great-signs","tag-greater","tag-heart","tag-hold-fast-to-him","tag-jesus-christ","tag-keep-his-commandments","tag-lead-astray","tag-net-the-test","tag-not-do-wrong","tag-obey-his-voice","tag-overcome","tag-perform","tag-pray","tag-realize","tag-serve-him","tag-soul","tag-strong-delusion","tag-test-yourselves","tag-tested-us","tag-testing-you","tag-wonders","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57124,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56965\/revisions\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}