When Your Faith Moves from Your Head to Your Heart

by Ken Turner | Faith

It’s one thing to know about God but it’s completely different to really know Him. It’s one thing to know that He can answer other people’s prayers but that’s not the same thing as experiencing answers to your own personal prayers to Him. You might know in your head that God has a plan for His children but when you clearly know His will for your own life, that is a life-changing experience.

You can read in the book of Job a fascinating true story about the man whose name was Job who walked with God, feared God and shunned evil. He was known for praying faithfully everyday for his children and his extended family. If you want to see a great example of a man of God who truly lived a blameless life… Job is your man.

God did something really interesting in Job’s life. He allowed him to go through some deep trials and when Job came out on the other end of tough times, he had moved from knowing about God to seeing God in a whole new way. The story of Job is a reality check for all of us. It shows us that no matter how much we know about God or how spiritual we may seem to be… there is still so much more room for us to grow in our walk with Him.

Four Keys to Moving from the Head to the Heart with God.

1. Even the most spiritual person still needs to know God in deeper ways. Job 1:1, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

2. Even the wealthiest of God’s children need to go deeper in their walk with Him. Job 1:3, “His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”

3. The spiritual victory we experience today will be challenged deeply in the future. Read the full first chapter of Job and see how he lost everything.

4. Knowing God and seeing God are not the same thing. Job was known for being very spiritual, being very blessed by God with material wealth and being very strong in character. But after God allowed him to go through some massive trials Job realized he had a blind spot. He revealed it in Job 42:5 when he said, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” Job realized he had spent years of his life living for God by believing in the truths of God’s word but he still needed to go much deeper. And the depth of his faith came when he truly experienced God as his only source of hope, strength, identity, love, guidance and anything and everything that brings true meaning to life. If you want to get the full effect of Job’s eyes being opened to how little he really knew of God’s presence and power, read Job chapters 38-42. It is an amazing dialogue between him and God.

So remember, no matter where you are with God right now, the goal is to truly experience Him… not just know about Him. The goal is to move from the head to the heart and see His fingerprints all over your life everyday.

I’d love to hear from you about how God is at work in your life. You can email me, post a comment or even leave a voicemail at 423-381-0018.

Ken Turner

Learn more at https://kenturnerministries.org/walking-with-god/

Email me at kenturner@highimpactteens.org

The World Needs More Men to be Men

by Ken Turner | Faith

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_text]When God created the earth, animals, heavens and stars, He also created mankind in His own image. He created a man and a woman. If you read the creation story in Genesis 3 you see that He immediately established purposes for man and woman to fulfill. It isn’t an accident that you were born exactly as you are. Psalm 139 speaks to the topic explaining that even while you were secretly forming in your mother’s womb, God was forming, shaping and planning specific details of your life.

Life can become so confusing sometimes. But know this truth… God created you with the life, the body, the temperament, personality and talents He specifically purposed for your life.

The world needs more manly men to rise up and be the man God intended them to be. The world also needs Godly women to to be the woman He purposed them to be. There is nothing wrong with a man being distinctively masculine and a woman being distinctively feminine… there is nothing wrong with it at all.

If I can speak to the topic of manhood here, I want to give a challenge to young men to commit yourself to owning your faith, embracing your manhood and committing yourself to be a man of courage, a man of bravery, a man who will be counted on some day to be a spiritual leader to your family and provide and protect them with every fiber of your being. And girls… look for a man like that and you will be forever grateful for his care and leadership in your life and family.

It’s not easy to go against the grain of culture, peer pressure and opinions of the masses, but with God’s help and power you can be the man and woman God calls you to be.

Wisdom from Psalm 1

1. Do Not Live Your Life Seeking Advice from People Who Don’t Follow God.

Verse 1, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2. Commit Yourself 100% to Reading and Obeying the Bible.

Verse 2, But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. Find Your Strength in God and Rely on Him, Not Yourself to Bring Success.

Verse 3, And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4. Understand That if Your Life is Not Anchored in God, Eventually You Will Experience Massive Instability.

Verse 4, The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5. Believe that God is on the Throne and He is the Judge, So Obey Him Now and Fulfil His Plan for Someday We Will Wish to God We Had.

Verse 5-6, Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

I’d love to hear from you about how God is at work in your life. You can email me, post a comment or even leave a voicemail at 423-381-0018.

Ken Turner

Learn more at https://kenturnerministries.org/walking-with-god/

Email me at kenturner@highimpactteens.org

HERE’S SOME EXTRA MOTIVATION ON NOT BEING AFRAID TO BE A MAN!

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