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Don't Blame God


Do you believe that God's Word is God talking to you?   



Say Lord, talk to me, and then start reading the Bible.
  


You come to know His voice through reading the Bible.
  



It is 66 books with many different writers, but one author who is the Holy Spirit.  





After creating a habit of reading God's Word, you'll recognize His voice when His Holy Spirit speaks to you. 





Some people who call you on the phone.



They'll just say hello,  and you know who it is. 


We need to be that way with God's voice. 



Matthew 13:1-9  (ESV)

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

2 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 

3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: 

“A sower went out to sow. 

4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 

5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 

6 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. 

7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 

8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

9 He who has ears, let him hear.”




Matthew 13:13-14  (ESV)
13 This is why I (Jesus) speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.



14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,

    and you will indeed see but never perceive.”


The outcomes of our lives are the result of our response to God's word.



Begging God to do something is wrong thinking.  




It's trying to get God to do things our way.   



Not in the way that God has told us that He works through His Word.
  



His word is seed.



The first time that you hear it.  It is seed.    



Get it in you. 


Water it, and it will grow.  



The following times that you hear it.  It is being watered.  



Don't feed on everything in the world.



Don't blame God for a lack of results while refusing to do what He asks us to do.  



God is not the problem. 

He is not withholding any good thing.



Faith is not an intellectual position. 



Faith is not knowledge. 

Faith is of the heart. 

God speaks faith filled words that are like seed. 
  


It reproduces itself within you. 



It's the law of displacement. 

If you get full of faith, it displaces fear.  



You've got to keep hearing it continuously. 




According to Jesus, 3 out of 4 soils got no results.  



Jesus is saying it's not God's fault.



It's the soil's fault if the words of God get no results.  



He didn't say that it wasn't God's will. 

He said that it was the soil. 

It was because of their wrong response.



The outcomes of our lives are from our response to God's words. 

  



Matthew 13:18-19 (ESV)

18 “Hear then the parable of the sower: 

19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. 


Luke 8:5 (ESV)

5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.

It's sad that people have zero respect for God's Word.  



You don't walk on stuff you highly regard. 




We get blessed by seeking first God's kingdom and righteousness.  




Because they didn't regard it, they didn't understand it.  



That's why Satan stole it from them. 

Because of technology, people are perpetually distracted. 

Give God your complete attention.  



Learn how to focus and keep your mind of Him.  



That's how it gets in you.  



In that moment, let God be your entire world.  



There are many voices in the world.



There is one voice you need to be in tune to.    




Keith Moore, Faith Life Church 
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