Finding Assurance In Uncertainties

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Pastor Vincent - 3 October 2013

The Way Of Evangelism: Christ Convictions

Conviction means a believing heart, and it's the prayer of a convicted remnant that mobilizes angels to work. Convictions come from deep prayers as you confirm the truth and inscribe it unto your heart, so that it can be the strength in your heart and give you the ability to do the good in you. Convictions come from the the many unresolving problems in your life that drives you to have the continual need to turn to God and be comforted by His truth, again and again. Conviction comes when you train yourself to live before God, not man. And very importantly, conviction certainly comes through brethren living. After crossing the Jordan river, God made Joshua circumcised the people before the enemy, in a state which the Israelites were so vulnerable and could be easily attacked by the enemy. What does it tell us? Be afraid of not your enemy (problems); rather, be really afraid when your heart is stolen by the enemy. Even before the storm, before the big and challenging problems, God was more concerned with His people's circumcision than fighting the war. God has every ability to fight and win the war and give His people the promised land, but the reason why He wanted them circumcised is to set them apart and put His covenant in their hearts first - their identity, their purpose of living, and that they must not forget the works of the Lord in their lives. Live as one circumcised, be convicted by the truths.

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Man dreads uncertainty because he has no control over it.

<Ecc 9> 11 I have seen something else under the sun:

The race is not to the swift
    or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
    or wealth to the brilliant
    or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.

12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.

  • Man cannot control Time and Chance <v11>.
  • God doesn’t give man full control  Man won’t be proud and self-reliant.
  • God wants to give us something better than Control  God Himself!
  • Uncertainty both a challenge and an opportunity.

 

Counter uncertainty with FAITH!

  • (NIV, 1984 version) Heb 11:1: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
  • Have greatest faith when there is least certainty/clarity.
  • [Standalone] Mother Teresa: “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”
  • “Clarity” can become an idol that supplants our faith in God.
  • Do we prefer faith or clarity (certainty)?
  • Bible asks us to both trust and obey God.
  • Faith, not certainty, is what pleases God <Heb 11:6>.

 

What can we do by faith during uncertainties?

1）Find peace from God’s unchanging character and sure truth.

  • <Heb 13:8> Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  • Often, our uncertainty is only a “felt” insecurity; God is still secure.
  • Build our peace not on the foundation of “known outcomes”, but on God.

 

2) Find out how God wants to change me through the uncertainties.

  • God is more interested in how I am transformed than how my situation changes.
  • Wrestle till can say, “Lord, not my will, but Yours be done.”

 

3) Focus on today, instead of worrying about tomorrow. 

  • <Mt 6:34> “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
  • Counting blessings today will give assurance for tomorrow.
  • “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength” – Corrie Ten Boom.
  • Worry means we care about something more than God.
  • Anxiety stops when we let God be the King in our concerns.
  • Bring specific worries to God in prayer.
  • Restore ‘assurance in the greater (God)’ to ease our ‘anxiety in the lesser’.

 

4) Make God’s kingdom our priority.

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Preacher Hui Jun
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Huijun serves as Secretary of The Blessed RUN Ministries. She is also the Preacher at The Life Church and Missions (Singapore). She graduated from Singapore Bible College and currently lives in Singapore with her husband, Chengji.

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