just offer you warm fuzzies, it promises you confident knowledge of your salvation and a Father that hears And you certainly can't bow your head and talk to a God you can't see and truly know He hears you. : if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." Ah, but there was a caveat there! God only hears and grants those things which are according to His will. Maybe you've been praying for something good and godly for years on end, but haven't experienced any

God; through faith adore his mercies; and from then on more eagerly work out their own salvation with fear

teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2  that you may fear his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 3  Hear as the L ORD , the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4  “Hear derives its name from the statement’s first Hebrew word, שְׁמַ֖ע ( shema ')—which is the command to “hear YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that these words will never be far from your lips; A SK GOD FOR WHAT

It goes on to explain: The reason for depriving ourselves for so many years of such songs that reflect We were aware of the unsound or unsatisfactory character of many current hymns, and we feared that in

yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. 6   For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping from his father by his own brothers, who chose the 'merciful' option of selling him as a slave in a far God saw beforehand the years of famine that would be coming, and He sovereignly put his servant Joseph purpose; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that just like Joseph's brothers you will let go of your fear

words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20  because they could not bear it must be stoned to death.”  21  The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear But the second group - the group that you and I are part of: the Church, have a far different experience is a member of Christ's eternal Church; A SK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year

though they're in Christ, they never have a free and open relationship with their Father because they fear eternal life you have right here and now; A SK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year

, You are God. 3 You turn man back into dust And say, “Return, O children of men.” 4 For a thousand years in the light of Your presence. 9 For all our days have declined in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh. 10 As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away. 11 Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

16  ruin and misery mark their ways, 17  and the way of peace they do not know.”  18  “There is no fear your sinful nature and more like Christ; A SK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year

distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing 20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” 21 (All God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far So they invited him down to the Areopagus, which was their hang out, to hear more of his strange ideas