Are you living it? This Sunday – Gideon; God Makes Us Weak To Make Us Strong, Parents, Will You Tell The Next Generation? This means that God was thinking about you before He created the earth. When you see that God has literally harnessed every molecule of the universe to make you a son or daughter in his image, you’ll have a hope that can endure the darkest valleys. God can give you a life more interesting than your wildest dreams! Psalm 78 (good words from my wife! But knowing that God had predestined some gave him the confidence to keep sharing. But if I trust in Christ, I can be sure that it will happen. So I hope this helps you too. Well, God’s already chosen who is saved, so it doesn’t matter if I witness or not. Do not avoid them. But if God didn’t choose us because of our goodness, he’s not counting on our goodness to keep us saved. Purchase or download Christian literature at Christian BookShop, the online bookstore for Hidden Treasures Foundation Publishers (HTFP)/Stiftelsen Skjulte Skatter Forlag (SSSF). I’ve done it, too. Reading passages like this makes you ask some deep questions. God’s word is all we need. “Have I been called by God.” “Did God choose me?” “How can I know if God has chosen me?” God means for us to ask these things. And I can stand firm with complete confidence that I belong to God and the eternal kingdom belongs to me. Or is there something more? There is one path that has never disappointed anyone who chooses it. By. Go read our text for tomorrow, 2 Peter 1:3-11 and focus especially on v.10-11. You possess the traits of a spiritual leader. He chose you because he wants to choose others. Can You Know If You’ve Been Chosen By God? For many of us, knowing that we’re chosen is the theological equivalent of knowing our social security number—important to get right, sure, but not a detail that impacts our day-to-day lives. I love running, hunting, fishing, camping, and coaching baseball. Before God began to create the earth, He was thinking of you. But that’s the paradox Scripture gives us: we share Christ with people like it’s all up to us, and we pray to God knowing that it’s all up to him. You are not your own: When you dedicate your life to God, you are surrendering your will to His will for your life. How can I fix the problems in my marriage? Even in those moments when you feel victimized, or hurt, or just plain unlucky, God is working for your good. When you do this, you will enter into what He chose you for â sanctification â a process of transformation that results in goodness and mercy, for example, becoming your natural reaction, where you previously would have become angry. 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