NATIONAL & PERSONAL CRISIS # 17, Anything you do means nothing if the Lord is left out. (2-23-25)

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14. We need God and His plan for our lives. God’s plan begins when we believe in Christ and continues when we learn Bible doctrine.
15. Man is not the master of his fate; our fate and our destiny are in God’s hands.
Proverbs 16:9 The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself; Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD, And your plans will be established.
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man's heart, But the counsel of the LORD, it will stand.
16. Man lives in the devil’s world and is vulnerable to enslavement in the Cosmic System.
17. Man can use his own free will to become a slave of Satan, or he can use it to become a servant of God.
18. The sooner the believer realizes his need of a power greater than himself and outside of himself, the sooner he establishes the right priorities for life and a pattern of good decisions relating to God’s plan.
19. Man is not an independent power but a creature of weakness whose strength lies in the functions of his soul, especially in the function of his free will to choose God’s power system.
20. Human power, authority, ability, genius, talent, or even a dynamic personality or beauty *are no substitutes for life in the Divine Dynasphere. Yet people depend on almost anything of a creature nature rather than on the provision of their Creator, Jesus Christ. *Anything one does or has is nothing if the Lord is left out of it.
21. It often takes personal or historical disaster to bring the believer (or anyone) to an understanding of how weakness is turned into strength. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 illustrates: “And then He assured me, `My grace is sufficient for you. For the power [omnipotence of God] functions in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather demonstrate confidence toward God in my weaknesses in order that the power of Christ may pitch a tent over me. Therefore, for the sake of Christ I discover contentment [+H] in weaknesses [helpless situations], in the antagonisms of arrogance [opposition from Cosmic One], in pressures [momentum testing], in persecutions [opposition from Cosmic Two], in disasters [hopeless situations]; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”