I will seek that the Lord will perfect, establish, strengthen and settle me

From: March 14-20, 2006 Study: # 435

TOPIC: “I will seek that the Lord will perfect, establish, strengthen and settle me” 1 Peter 5:10 We must be aware of how we conserve what is ours, all that God has given us. The more we struggle the more we will see God’s glory. Revelation 3:11 If we don't conserve what we have under God’s glory, then great problems will arise. Let us think that both Heaven and Hell are eternal. Heaven is not a heavy load for us, but this earth sure is. Heaven is the most desirable thing for those that are able to understand what there is beyond here. As Christians, we are consolidated according to Jehovah’s fear in us. When we fear God with reverence it will make us be firm, solid in faith, and strengthen us. Fear towards Jehovah consolidates us. The good things that can happen to us do not consolidate us, but how much fear towards God is there in us. That is what will establish us, what will make us stable. We can think that after we convert to Christ everything has to be good and better. It should be this way. But as the time goes by, many become more calculating and less worshippers instead of being more stable. The more we fear Jehovah it will make us firmer and more consolidated. We have to love God with all our strength because we have known a great, strong God that loves us. As time goes by, we must have a firm conviction of who this great and powerful God is. There is no one that can separate us from the love of God; it would only happen if we truly didn’t know God. God has done much good to our lives and we should be grateful. Sometimes, we fall to our illness, and stop congregating because of it. As time goes by, it is necessary for us to grow in fear of God rather than in our weaknesses. It is necessary to maintain what we have in the Lord. For example, rebelliousness is something that works subtly, it works quietly day after day and when the worst day comes we open our mouth, and complain and we perish. Our sufferings are experienced by our brethren around the world the same as in us and we all have to live through them. 1 Peter 5:9 We all are tested in suffering, in defeats, in victories, in abundance, in shortages, illnesses, work, etc. We must go through so much suffering! When our stability staggers we can see how firm we have been or not in what we have believed. Jesus died on the cross. He resuscitated. We have that conviction, a passion for what we have known. We must fear Christ, who loves us, and not fear men. Sometimes as the years go by, we begin to lose the fear of Jehovah. As we consolidate in God, there will be no one that can confuse us, no one that can drag us, no one that can move us from here to there. When we love our brothers and sisters in Christ who are by our side, we are demonstrating that we live consolidating, that we live stable and secure. It is easy to escape from the truth, to what we must face. In this life there are many things for which one has to be humble. Without perfection we cannot rise. If we don't examine our heart we will perish. This does not mean to examine and bring to account what others have done to us, but rather we must preserve our heart. We must preserve our faith in the midst of our sufferings, for this will consolidate us and make us perfect, firm and stable. We must work in our life the seven days of the week. The glory of God is not the food, or anything of this world, but knowing that He is in the midst of the Church and that we seek to consolidate in fear before God because we are living it. If we are solid, firm we are not dragged by anything or anyone but rather we will grow strong in what we have believed. There are many circumstances that we have to live. We are trees planted in running waters with very deep roots. Psalm 1:3, Psalm 92:12-14 Sometimes suffering brings shame instead of struggling, and why not suffer? In our sufferings we conserve our faith because we must consolidate. What we live is just for a while. It is not how healthy our bodies can be but how much we consolidate in the fear of Jehovah. Sometimes it becomes a habit to see God, but we have to

desire it every day, more than all that we can possess here on earth. No earthly thing can be greater than fearing Jehovah. Fearing God should be so violent in our lives that we have to live perfect, stable and firm, in such a way that no temptation can take us away from Him. We will die to all that is temptation when we consolidate in our fear to Jehovah. God doesn't change; He is the same yesterday, today and forever. No temptation can be greater than the God that has called us. Isaiah 42: 22-24 The God whom we serve wants to perfect us, to establish us in Him. So there is no one that can make us fall. As the Church, we must struggle for our homes. How frequently have we been able to say what Jehovah has spoken? Or have we become deaf because of fear, because we were afraid to face what is sin to what is wrong? Or is it that there are not brave men and women to discover and to restore what is wrong? In our homes is where we say and we will really show what we are, how firm we are, how much conviction is in us. Let us be not deaf or blind. Our loved ones get lost because we become deaf, blind, we’re afraid to act. Beloved, there is no defeat when we face what is wrong with a fight. Defeat comes when we don’t do anything about it. The devil only wants to take our loved ones and plunder them, and step on them. We are priests in our homes. We must not allow anyone to put them in caverns. It is up to us to not allow our loved ones to fall in destruction or be taken away from us with violence, or to be destroyed and disseminated with terror and tears. They have to return our loved ones to us, but for this we must rise in fast and prayer. It depends on us how much we consolidate in the fear of Jehovah. Let us consolidate our fear to Jehovah and let us sustain those who are consolidating to restore what has been taken from them. Only those who are consolidated in the fear to God are the ones that are able to maintain, and restore what the devil has taken away from them. What we don't take care of, the world will take it away from us. When God sends us to give, we will give according to how we have consolidated in the fear of God. We pretend to be experts of the Word, but according to how much we have grown in the fear to Jehovah is that we will be consolidated. May God perfect us, affirm, strengthen and establish us. Amen.