Some People Like to be Offended

Be Confident in Declining What God has not Commanded

If someone becomes angry because we declined an offer we know that the offer came with a hook. Never feel bad about having reasonable boundaries that you live by.

There will always be those who think you have insulted them by saying "no thank you" to their desire for us to do something. When we experience this we know the motive was not pure and the offer was not for our good but only theirs.

I am happy to be on board with someone when God is telling me to do it, however, I am not pleased with pressure to do things God never told me to do.

Never feel guilty if you have to say no to someone else's agenda.

God will tell us what He wants when He wants it, people are not our bosses, only Christ is our Authority, when He speaks we know it.

When the Holy Spirit speaks to us there is no doubt and no pressure needed from others. Others may suggest things to us that we pray about but their pressure should never be the reason we do something.

Acts 5:29

"29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."

Those who do not support our decision to hear from God cannot be our companions. They will expect us to do their bidding rather than seek Christ in us.

Peer pressure to honor cultural Christianity will always lead down a path of disobedience, don't go there, stay on the path God has for you even if no one else goes with you or supports you.

Mark 6:11

"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.""

Keep your companions those who love God as you love Him and desire to obey Him as you desire to obey Him. Everyone else will be a distraction.

Doing Things Our Own Way Does Not Please God

There are those who use Moses holding up the serpant in the wilderness as an excuse to have idols they bow to, this is foolishness.

God commanded to look at the surpant in the wilderness and the people misused it.
John 3:13-15 "…13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.…"

 
It is far different for God to tell someone to observe something than it is for man to decide for himself what he will pay homage to.

 
Making up our own ideas to satisfy our need to see something is not the same as when God commands something.

Matthew 16:4
"4 An evil and adulterous generation wants a [a]sign; and so a [b]sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away."
Those who lack faith are those who need to see or do something to feel close to God. When we walk by faith, it is enough for Christ to be living in us as we worship in Spirit and in Truth. Christ is our Spirit that compels us to worship and even prays on our behalf.

Romans 8:34 "Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us."

Human beings are constantly thinking they can do it better than God. Making up their own ideas while ignoring God's commands to worship their own way.

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