COINCIDENCE

Is God really in control , or are the events of my life just coincidence?

Scripture To Consider:
"I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship."
Exodus 31:3

"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit".
1 Corinthians 12:4-8

"Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith."
Romans 12:6

"There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift."

"Therefore it says,"WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN."

"Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things."

"And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ."

"As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love."
Ephesians 4:4-16

"So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the utility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness."

"But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth."

"Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another. BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need."

"Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."

"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."
Ephesians 4:17-32

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
Ephesians 2:10


Big T's Thought To Ponder:
There are No Such Thing as Coincidences! Does any of the truth in the common thread of God's Divine and sovereign Word above sound like it was by accident that we were given specific instruction and purpose for our life? It no accident, or coincidence that you reading this devotional, you were driven here for a reason.

I believe there are no such thing as coincidence, but simply God's Divine Intervention and perfectly preordained plan for each of our lives. He has equipped each of us with specific and independently unique spiritual gifts that He has called us to use in each others life for His glory and greater goodness. As we come together in oneness and common union through the Spirit of God which indwells us and takes up residence within us at the time He calls us and we make a decision to trust and believe in the Almighty Jesus Christ be cause we come to the realization that we were not intended to do life in this fallen, broken, deteriorating world, but our Father has prepared a light for our path, given us the perfect example through Jesus Christ and preordained the good works that He prepared before hand, before He breathed out our DNA and knitted us in our mothers womb!

Coincidence? I ponder not!

God has a purpose for your life. You know it... You can feel it... You were led here by that feeling, by the desire to do more with your life than what you are presently doing. You know and feel, within your soul, that there is more to life than getting up each morning and going to a job that leaves you feeling empty at the end of the week.

You believe that there has to be more to life than working everyday, coming home just to get ready for work the next day so you can start all over again, repeating basically the same thing every day. It's endless and not what your were created to do, you have a meaningful purpose for life just as I now realize I have as well - we all do!

Well, I'm here to tell you that there is more to life. God has created you in His image. He wouldn't have wasted His time on creating something that was useless and we know He doesn't make junk. You, my friend, are very useful; you are incredible and most of you don't even know it, yet!

The world and the things in it can never satisfy the divine calling for what and who God created us to be - we are children of God; we are in complete opposition with the world, a world in which there is not peace to be found, there is only trouble, corruption and wickedness. We were created by Him and for Him by His Divine blueprint for our lives... He wants to do a supernatural extreme makeover in your life and in mine - Jesus overcame the world, He is where we find our peace, He was the One that came to bring life and to bring it abundantly!

We were created for such a time as this and we are all being called to surrender of "self"; to be sold-out for Christ Jesus our Savior, by knowing Him through spending time in His Word; to be submissive to the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit; to realize our greater purpose through the discovery, development and deployment of the spiritual gifts which we have been equipped and blessed and then to walk in complete obedience and in oneness with the Spirit of God.

God has already done all the work, now live in who you are in Christ... practice His presence... be willing to utilize the gifts that He has blessed you for His greater glory and honor. Trust that you really are His "Masterpiece or Workmanship" and live out what he is called you to do and know that you will always have all you need to do all He ask of you! The plan for our lives is ordained, preplanned and executed blueprint, a done deal - now walk according to what He has already prepared for us to do!


God's Truths & Promises:
"Made Alive in Christ and you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience."

"Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."

"Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

"But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity."

"AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY!