Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
8 31 2023
How Often do you Bargain with God?
Have you ever tried to bargain with God? Like going to church, giving away money, tithing, treating people nicely, and on and on? The problem is not with those good things, the problem is the motivation behind them. If you are doing good works to try and earn God‘s favor so that you can access His grace, then you have disqualified yourself from grace simply because your actions have shown that you don’t believe in what Grace truly is. This type of religion will ultimately defeat you.
Taking up the helmet of salvation involves grace, faith, and good works, but only in their proper order and their proper relationship with one another. God is giving us grace in Christ. Faith is the means by which we access grace. That grace flows in the good works. This progression leads us to a simple but essential element in understanding… Salvation.
Look, God cannot love you any more than he does right now, and the proof is in the death of Jesus Christ. You don’t need to try and make God love you more. When we try, we become like children trying to earn our parents’ affection. Children are loved by virtue of their relationship to the one whose love they are trying to gain. The parent may love the child unconditionally, but it’s up to the child to believe that it is true.
God is so concerned that we fully believe in his unconditional love, that he has given us the Holy Spirit to remind us that we are his children. His job is to remind us over and over again, that we are the beloved children of God.
When that truth takes root deep within you, you will have confidence like never before to overcome strongholds and resist temptations. You begin to become a whole new you.
Isn’t it amazing we believe the dead can live and the blind can see, but we so often fail to believe what the Bible says about us? Regardless of what you think about you. God calls you a saint. His chosen one. That’s how God sees us. Once we are saved, we are made righteous and have a place at God’s table alongside Jesus Christ.
So, do you want to put on the helmet of salvation?
Then believe what the Bible says about you.
When you do, you will begin to understand that saying no to temptation, conquering addictions, and breaking down strongholds is the most natural thing in the world.
You are accessing by faith, the power of God that he has already been given to you by his grace, and you’re applying it to individual areas
of life in the form of good works.
That’s what saints do. That’s who you are. Wearing the helmet of salvation means you believe in what God has done in you, and you act accordingly.
Lord help me believe what the Bible says to be true about me. Help me to believe that I am righteous before you. Lord help me to see myself as you see me. Help me to understand it by your Holy Spirit that I might own it and live it,
knowing the full scope of Salvation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdO2cRXVHII
He’s been faithful to me. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
