Wherever you are God provides.

God is the provider. People who ate from his hands usually do not recognize it. Israelites openly said to Jeremiah that they ate well when they worship the stars. Jer. 44:17. God brought them to starving. Jer. 52:6

Jacob said that the angel who fed him will bless Joseph's sons. He knew that God sent angel to provide him yet he doesn't say that there is an angel god. He knows that God sends through angels. 

• Elijah was at the brook. God sent birds
• Elijah was in the wilderness. God sent an angel
• Elijah was in Zarepath. God sent a widow

Wherever you are, God sends some one to provide you. It seems that Elijah never worries about food. He did not say that birds provided, angel provided or a widow provided. 

When Elijah was at the brook, the brook was dried up after a while. God allows it that the brook may not become his god. In India, some of our brothers worship rivers. Some people say that they are independent. What they do mean is that they don't depend on any one but upon God. But i want to tell them that if they depend on God, they are not independent but dependent. Its actually a blessing. 


Its not only about the food. Its about your every need. God is the provider, wherever you are. 

The TRUTH

God is spirit. So the worshiper has to worship him in spirit and truth. The angels who have the spiritual bodies also called as the spirits in Hebrews. Then does God has a body because angels have a spiritual body?

The spirit of God is upon the waters. The word "upon" communicates the location of the spirit where he is working. If the Spirit took a place at that particular time, then where is God? Who is there in the water? How did the water exist?

When God made man with the clay, the man could not move until the spirit is breathed into him. Before the spirit was breathed, the man was still existing in a physical form. Who is that in that man's body at that time and making it hold together?

God is not just spirit he is more than spirit. Something beyond spirit is existing and that is God. We recognize him with name "God" but he is more than God we understood. I think we can recognize him as the TRUTH. 

John the Baptist said that he came to witness the light that is Jesus. Jesus said to Pilate that he came to witness the truth. So you have to worship him in spirit and truth. 

Some said that Jesus is sending out demons by the help of Baelzebool. Jesus said, if I am sending the demons by the help of Baelzebool then how do your sons sending out demons? Even the sons of Pharisees also actually sending out demons by the help of the spirit. But Jesus said that they are under bondage but still say that they will give freedom. Now if they have spirit of God how come they are in bondage? It's because they have the help of the spirit but there is no truth in them. Truth sets them free if they have it. 

Psalm 85 God's wrath and our sin

Ps 85:2-5 ​​​​​​​You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; ​​​​​​you forgave all their sin. (Selah). ​​​​You withdrew all your fury; ​​​​​​you turned back from your raging anger.​​​​​​​Restore us, O God our deliverer! ​​​​​​Do not be displeased with us! Will you stay mad at us forever? ​​​​​​Will you remain angry throughout future generations?

The psalmist says that the Lord has forgiven them. He also said that the Lord has withdrew his fury. The same person again asks God if he would remain angry in future generations.

The Lord can turn back from his raging war. It doesnt mean that he is okay with the sin. Phinehas killed a couple and the plague stopped. God said, "though i was not at peace, i stopped plague. its because we need to deal with our sin. We need to atone our sin. When the angel was killing the people because of David's sin, the Lord relented and said to angel to stop. The angel stopped but did not put the sword back into its pouch. After David made atonement, the plague stopped.

Boasting (book of James)

James talks four times about boasting. In two of them he was positive and in two of them, he was negative.

Positive 

1. Rich in his lowness and poor in his highness. 1:9

2. Kindness boasts over judgment. 2:13

Negative 

1. If you are jealous do not boast 3:14

2. Now you are boasting in your great things and this boasting is not good. 4:16

He had a habit of addressing them again and again while he was talking to them.

1. Brothers 1:2, 2:1, 14, 3:1, 10, 12; 4:11, 5:7, 9,10,12,19

2. Dear brothers. 1:16,19; 2:5, 

3. Other names like-
          a. Fornicators, 4:4, 

          b. Double minded 4:8

          c. Those who talk to each other about profit of business.

          d. Rich people

Though he tells us in 3rd chapter, how can we bless and curse with one tongue, he started to call them fornicators and two minded etc. He was not cursing but addressing a separate group. 

Builders

Some times builders act like owners. They do not get any permission or any direction from the owner. God sent some builders and they have been reading prophecy but to never been in prophecy. they have passion and love their God the only problem is they don't know the purpose of the building. 

The purpose of the building lies in the heart of the corner stone. this builders rejected the corner stone thus they don't know the purpose of their call. A person that doesn't know the purpose is controlled in each every moment. if he finds the purpose, he will find the freedom from the control. The spirit of God does the both controlling directing. when you are controlled your discerning will never taken in to notice. when you are directed your discerning often times is appreciated or can be questioned. If your discerning is questioned, you can be corrected. being corrected is better than being controlled. if you know the purpose, the slavery finds no accommodation. Some people have work conscious. So they always move. every moving thing needs to be directed otherwise it will be automatically diverted.