Building A Relationship With God And With Others: A Book Of Devotion And Prayerful Reflections - Softcover

Odihi, John Onu

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ISBN 10: 1466927151 ISBN 13: 9781466927155

Verlag: TraffordSG, 2012

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Building a Relationship with God and with Others

A Book of Devotion and Prayerful ReflectionsBy John Onu Odihi

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2012 John Onu Odihi
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4669-2715-5

Contents

How does God Want Us to Live?..............................................1Living A Life of Worship...................................................7Living A Life of Love......................................................11Forgiveness................................................................15A Grateful Life............................................................20Living in Love.............................................................25Being Merciful.............................................................29Patience...................................................................34Mind Your Own Business.....................................................38Encouragement I............................................................43Encouragement II...........................................................47Going It All Alone.........................................................49An Ambassador for Christ...................................................52Building Our House on the Rock.............................................56God is Able................................................................61Winning Ways...............................................................65Praise God.................................................................69Sharing with Others........................................................73We are Gifts...............................................................77Confessions................................................................82The Way of Joy.............................................................88God is Faithful............................................................92It's All About God and His Pleasure........................................95Trust God and Do The Right.................................................99Don't be Afraid............................................................102God Is Our Refuge..........................................................106The Right Way..............................................................111The Path of No Fall........................................................116Only a Faint Whisper of God................................................121God in You is Victory......................................................126Joseph: An Example of a Surrendered Life...................................130Fear Leads to Sin and Death................................................133Spirit of Servanthood......................................................138We are Appointed to Bear Fruit.............................................146A Vision of God............................................................154His Autobiography, My Biography............................................159Keeping It Simple..........................................................161Love through the Way We Speak..............................................165Love Speaks the Truth......................................................168How to Speak the Truth in Love: The Motive Question........................170Speaking the Truth in Love: The "How" Question.............................172The Lord Jesus Our Model of Speaking the Truth in Love.....................174He is Faithful No Matter What..............................................177Can We Really Have a Relationship with God?................................179

Chapter One

How does God Want Us to Live?

He has showed you. O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8)

How does God our Maker and Lord want us to live? Although this appears to be a simple question, our understanding of how God wants us to live does not appear so simple when our lives are used as a measure. The gap between our theory of faith and our practice of it is indeed very wide for the average Christian. There is so much confusion in the way the average person lives in an average day. We may be happy now only to become so sad moments later. We may espouse peace and love in our words and live out conflict and indifference in reality. We may praise God in one moment and curse our neighbour in another. Many times our speech and actions depend on the audience. We are obliging before authorities or where we hope for potential benefits and are condemning and harsh when we relate to subordinates or weak people. On the average we are therefore living contradictory lives. The biblical injunction is that we live one life that is in tune with the will of God. As people who confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives we cannot live double lives just as a spring cannot give both fresh and salty water at the same time. Let our tongues be employed to do the highest job it can ever do—praising God and edifying our fellowman. Let us not "[w]ith the tongue ... praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh and salt water come from the same spring? (James 3: 9-11).

The Bible has a lot to say about how we live. As God's spiritual children all our goals in life should sum up to one major goal—the will and glory of God in all we do (1 Corinthians 10:31). The Ten Commandments are a guide to how our loving heavenly Father wants us to live in relation to Him and our fellow human beings. Indeed through these commandments, "He has showed you. O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8). As Christians both our words and our lives should please God. We must walk our talk if we claim to know the lordship of Jesus.

Living Out the Will of God

Begin the day with worship (prayer). Pray that God's will be done in your life as well as in the entire world. Recognize that the power to live the will of God is graciously available to you through the Holy Spirit. Nobody, no matter how powerful, can make you live for God if you don't want to. The opposite is also true. No powers in all the universe can make you live against God's will when you choose to live in it. Satan cannot, no tyrant can. This is why you are accountable to God for how you live. God's gift of will, which you have, brings responsibility. That responsibility brings accountability! Commit yourself to living to please God. Praise Him always. Thank Him for His graces. and be merciful to others rather than curse them when they do evil to you. It will not be easy but it is not impossible with God's grace available to you. With grace and practice the old way of living will be broken and the new way of living will become your habit.

Reflection

Today, without doubt, you will have opportunities to praise God and give Him thanks and to demonstrate mercy to people. Everything can bring us to worship and thank God. Don't think vengeance but forgiveness and say kind and helpful words to people not hurting words. You can pray thus: "God, my Father and Helper, kindly help me to praise and worship You today. Help me to be merciful to others as You are to me for Your glory I pray in Jesus' name. Amen."

Suggested Further Further Bible Reading

James 3: 1-11

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TraffordSG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1466927151
• ISBN 13: 9781466927155
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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