Title: For Everything to Go Well
The text we read today is well known to all of us believers.
Sometimes when you go into a restaurant, you see people doing business with the words of today's text hanging on the wall. "I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in good health, as your soul prospers"... Because this is a good saying to everyone. Also, we often see the Bible verse in Job 8:7, "Your beginning was small, but your end will be exceedingly great."
1. People live in the hope that everything will go well.
A person who runs a business wants to do well in business, a person who studies wants to achieve what he wants by studying well, and a person who runs a company wants the company to prosper and prosper. So I hope all goes well.
But when we look at our reality, we hear more of bad news than we hear of good things. There are more people these days who don't do well than those who do well. Why? Why not?
There are many reasons, but if you think about it from a religious standpoint, there is a reason.
As shown in today's text, in order for all things to go well, my soul must be well.
Seeing what he said, 'As your soul prospers,' it means that everything will work out when your soul prospers.
That is why, as believers, our souls should prosper and be healthy. Just as a healthy body does not catch colds, but a weak physical body catches both colds and colds, so if the person inside is weak, as the wind blows against the temptations, greed and lies of the world, it means that they are weak and cannot stand upright.
When the soul is not healthy like this, everything will not work out.
Even if it seems to be going well, it's only temporary.
It will break easily soon.
For all things to go well, the soul must prosper and be strong. The body is visible to our eyes, but the soul is only visible to the mind's eye.
My body can be seen by others, but my soul can only be seen by God.
They decorate their outward appearance to look good in front of others, but the inner person does not put much effort into showing good looks in front of God. That's the problem.
2. It was said that all things work well when the soul is healthy and well.
When God created man, he created man in His image.
The fact that man was created in the image of God means that he was created as a spiritual being capable of communion with God. The soul is the part that can have communion with God. There is no way to deal with God in the flesh.
Therefore, it is said that the kingdom of God cannot be entered through flesh and blood. Our body is made up of body and soul, but since the soul is not a visible part, it is easy for everyone to neglect it.
However, when the soul, the invisible part, is healthy and prosperous, the body will also prosper and become precious.
For the soul to prosper, the inner person must be healthy.
When I see people taking care of this physical beauty, which is an outward person, I always train that body. I don't know how much effort you put in. Standing still doesn't make the body so beautiful. In fact, how much effort do you put in for this body that will return to the dust on the same day when you stop breathing? Nowadays, with the advancement of plastic surgery technology, it is said that the shape of the face is changed.
It is said to fix the nose, trim the chin, double the eye couple, and change the shape of the face to an egg shape.
If you look at the efforts of women trying to become prettier, they are desperately trying to shape and shape their bodies while starving.
They are all trying to be beautiful in front of people.
In the same way, we should do our best for the inner person, but everyone is not making such efforts for their own inner person. It is said that 'everything goes well only when the soul prospers', but since no investment or effort is made for the invisible soul, how desolated will that soul be?
When the soul becomes healthy and beautiful, the person's life will naturally become clean and beautiful. Look at the ills of our society as a whole today.
Doesn't everyone have a mental problem?
If the minds of each and every citizen are healthy, the country will be healthy and the economy will also be strong. But looking at our mental state these days, how many things are bad for healthy minds?
All the corruption and corruption in our society today is because the invisible mind is more cloudy than the visible part.
3. Then, what should be done in order to have a healthy and prosperous soul?
He said that the inner man must be strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit.
In order for the inner person to become healthy, it is possible only with the power of the Holy Spirit.
There is a limit to the effort to believe in one's own willpower.
Those who still do not know what the power of the Holy Spirit is, and believe in it, may not even know what the word Holy Spirit means. The Holy Spirit is not my willpower, but the power that grabs me and strikes my will and makes me obey the Word.
Where does that power come from?
It is the power of God that comes from heaven.
It is also commonly referred to as a religious experience.
In other words, it is also called a mystical experience.
Ephesians 3:16 says, ?쏛ccording to the riches of his glory, strengthen the man within you with power through his Holy Spirit?╈?Here is his Holy Spirit.
Here, ?쏦is??means God.
The power that God gives is the power of the Holy Spirit.
When the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we have strength. How does the Holy Spirit
do you come?
Just like the saints on the Day of Pentecost, you just need to believe in the Lord's promise and pray.
What is your promise?
It was the word of waiting for the Holy Spirit to come instead of me without leaving Jerusalem.
What can you think of here?
If you depart from the Lord, the Holy Spirit cannot come upon you.
In other words, the Holy Spirit does not come near to those who neglect the word of the Lord.
He also told us not to quench the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
He also said not to grieve the Holy Spirit.
He also said that the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven.
There are so many sayings about the Holy Spirit. You say you believe, but you still don't care about the Holy Spirit. How can everything be all right while you grieve the Holy Spirit?
If you try to change your body every morning, trim your face to be seen by people every day and put on makeup, but leave your soul in front of God unattended, how wrong would this be. Therefore, the Holy Spirit does not come on those who focus only on visible physical things or give priority to those who believe.
Even today, the work of the Holy Spirit is the same, but not everyone who believes and accepts it is the same. That's why he told them to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
If you become a soul filled with the Holy Spirit, you will experience the grace of prosperity in all things.
This is the promise of the eternal truth of God.
If the soul prospers like this, then everything will be fine.
4. How then does the Holy Spirit come upon us?
The saints on the day of Pentecost did not cease to gather.
Gathering at that time was a socially risky gathering.
They gathered at the risk of Jewish accusations and Roman officials.
Because now it was after they met the risen Lord.
So they risked their gathering in the attic of a man named Mark.
Then they gathered and said that they devoted themselves to prayer.
This is what we need.
First, you must have confidence in the Lord.
I believe that the Lord is the Lord of Resurrection who saved me from my sins, and I have faith in the resurrection that I can participate in the resurrection again with the Lord even if I die now.
must be This means the faith that solved death.
I don't know how many beliefs still have not solved the problem of death and want to pursue only the things of the visible world. To say that you believe so is not true faith. It is still an expectation for the fulfillment of one's wish, but it is not faith. Because they do not have faith, the Holy Spirit does not come upon them. First, you must have faith that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Next, while praying with one heart, the Holy Spirit came upon us.
The revival of the church is the work of the Holy Spirit. The revival of the church is a work of unity.
Without united prayer, the church can never be revived.
The coming of the Holy Spirit comes in various ways, but it came during united prayer. Looking at the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, when we became one in prayer, we experienced the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit in all rooms together.
Therefore, I hope that there will be more believers like this in our church today as well. How long do you pray for the soul of the inner person without missing out on the outer person's makeup all week long?
Still, I worry that everything is not going well. First, have faith in the resurrection, believe in the walk of the Lord, and pray and pray while working.
Even now, God does not give way to those who fear Him.
What did the writer of Hebrews write?
?쏻ithout faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He exists, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him??(Hebrews 11:6).
God is saying in many places that He will give good things to those who trust and rely on Him.
Psalm 34:10 "The young lions are needy and hungry, but those who seek the Lord will lack nothing for any good."
Psalm 103:5 "The LORD satisfies your desires with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's."
Psalm 107:9 "He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good things"... It is said that he is a God who satisfies and fills all with good things.
Dear saints!
Do we really want everything to work out for us?
From the beginning of the soul, healthy and beautiful should be nurtured.
Do not focus only on this physical thing, which is the visible part, and do not invest only in the outward person who is physically visible to others, but invest for the inner person, my soul. When my soul prospers, everything will work out.
Today, I hope that your soul will be strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit in these words. ??