Colossians 1:2

2 To the saints (the consecrated people of God) and believing and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace (spiritual favor and blessing) to you and [heart] peace from God our Father.

Do you know that it is our Father Who is completely responsible for making us consecrated? 

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you]. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Do you know that it is Jesus is Who totally responsible for making us faithful? 

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

Do you also know that Grace is our Father causing us to be Christlike?

It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues). 2 Corinthians 1:12

Finally, do you know that Jesus is responsible to cause us to have peace?

Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] John 14:27

We can do nothing on our own, nothing. As we studied yesterday it is our Father in us, He has to do all of the works. So consecration, faith, grace, peace, understanding, love, hope, forgiveness, joy, works, or whatever have to first come to us from our Father. We do not first do something so that our Father can then act in our lives. God is not reactive to us, we are reactive to Him. 

John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] John 3:27

Colossians 1

Paul, an apostle (special messenger) of Christ Jesus (the Messiah), by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother,

Paul was a special messenger of Jesus and only was one because our Father willed him to be one. Paul wasn’t any better then us, he wasn’t smarter then us, he was just a brother who was called to be used by God in a very special way. Look at what Paul thought and wrote about himself.

O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death? Romans 7:24

Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. Philippians 3:12

For I am the least [worthy] of the apostles, who am not fit or deserving to be called an apostle, because I once wronged and pursued and molested the church of God [oppressing it with cruelty and violence]. 1 Corinthians 15:9

Paul was well aware of the Truth that the only reason that he was doing anything was because our Father was using him to do it.  Even Jesus, God in the flesh, the Messiah, the Savior, understood the same Truth.

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [essentially and perfectly morally] good? There is no one [essentially and perfectly morally] good—except God alone. Mark 10:18

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My own authority and of My own accord; but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His own miracles, deeds of power). John 14:10

None of us is good enough, strong enough, smart enough, loyal enough, giving enough, loving enough, faithful enough, or anything enough to do anything worthy for our Kingdom. I mean if Jesus said that He wasn’t good, how could we ever be? But none of that matters. Our Father uses us as He see’s fit. Our shortcomings in no way limit our Father from using us to the fullest of His abilities. 

We have been called and chosen by God before we ever were.

But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased. Galatians 1:15

And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God’s purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them], Romans 9:11

Hope For All

For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship]. For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it—[yet] with the hope That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God’s children. We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now. 8:19-22

And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God’s sons). Romans 8:23

I think what is so amazing with these 5 verses is that our Father shows us that we are separate from the creation. Look at what we are shown in verse 23, “and not only the creation, but we too ourselves.” Then another really amazing Truth in these verses is that we are shown that those who are not like us, the irrational, also will enjoy our freedom when we are revealed as God’s Children. “The creation itself will be set free from bondage.” Amen the irrational will be set free from their bondage. And finally the shortcomings of the people are not due to themselves, which ties right in with Romans 11:32, "God has consigned all men to disobedience, so that He may have mercy on all men alike."
 

Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is. 1 John 3:2

So the Truth is that it will not only be us who will enjoy freedom eternally, but even those irrational ones who have not tasted the first fruits, they too will also enjoy eternal freedom. We are shown that they will enjoy the freedom of us. We are not shown that they will be the Bride of Christ, but we are shown that they will enjoy our freedom. They will enjoy this freedom because they will be our guests and it will be our gift to them. Just as the guests of a wedding now are given food, drinks, entertainment, and gifts, so too will these irrational ones.  

And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests. Matthew 22:10

The Bride is not a guest at her own wedding and any bride who is excited about her marriage has a ton of guests to celebrate right along with her. We are no different in our excitement of being married to Jesus and our guests will enjoy the freedom that we enjoy. We will eternally bless those who cursed us and freely give Grace to those who did not understand or believe. 

No one is completely satisfied right now. We are all waiting for the day when we will be revealed to the world as God’s Children. On that day everyone will enjoy freedom, because every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.

But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Romans 5:15

Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. Romans 5:18

Being Content

John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] John 3:27

There is no other source for anything for us than what we are first given from our Father. Think of the peace that this Truth should bring us. There is no other source of what we need than from God. So if we need peace; we must be content that it has to come from Heaven. If we need to forgive others, that forgiveness has to first come to us from our Father, Who is greater in us than anything that is in this world. If we need love, faith, hope, joy, understanding, wisdom, health, food, wealth, or whatever, it has to first come to us from Heaven. The responsibility of our success is all on our Father, how cool is that? 

I will be honest, I am not as content as I should be with that Truth. Many times when trials arise I still tend to think that I have to do something first to get our Father to give me what I need to be successful. But our yoke is so much easier than that.  

And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7

Our peace that passes all understanding is that we do not have to fret if we don’t understand. We don’t need to worry that we aren’t measuring up or that we should be doing more. The Truth is that we can only do more if our Father causes us to do more. The churches that I grew up in would absolutely condemn me to Hell for saying that. They would say that I am lazy and that I am content with being worldly, but that is not the Truth at all. I am not content with sin, or with not being used more. But our Father is causing me to grow at being content with the Truth that it has to be Him completely working through us. The Holy Spirit has not brought me perfect peace with this yet, but He has brought me a lot farther along than I used to be.    

Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you]. 1 Thessalonians 5:24

And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you. Philippians 1:6

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5

 

 

How We Can Understand

As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one. No one understands [no one intelligently discerns or comprehends]; no one seeks out God. Romans 3:10-11

You ever think that you just don’t understand? Well relax, because according to the Bible no one does. The only way that we can understand anything about God, Who is our Father, is by Him showing us the Truth about Himself. Our understanding is not determined by how much we study or how often we go to church. The absolutely glorious and freeing Truth is that we can never come to know anything about the Truth unless our Father first shows us it. So we are able to relax in the freedom that our knowledge and wisdom are dependent on God revealing everything to us. We cannot do it, so we don’t ever have to take thought about it.

All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son deliberately wills to make Him known. Matthew 11:27

He said to them, To you it has been given to [come progressively to] know (to recognize and understand more strongly and clearly) the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that, [though] looking, they may not see; and hearing, they may not comprehend. Luke 8:10

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking under the power and influence of the [Holy] Spirit of God can [ever] say, Jesus be cursed! And no one can [really] say, Jesus is [my] Lord, except by and under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3

In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor, Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence). Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, Ephesians 1:7-9

It seems that whenever I take conscious thought about what I need to study I draw an absolute blank. Yet, when I stop taking thought for it, God just shows me all kinds of stuff. I can read and read a verse and see nothing, then all of a sudden God will show me that verse and it’s like a whole new world was opened up to me. So don’t beat yourself up, our Father will show you all that He wants you to know and He will do it when it is the perfect time for you. He also knows exactly how you need to see it. It may be in Church, it may be in a private study session, or it may be in a dream or a vision, it may even be while you’re driving your car. When and how doesn’t matter at all, our peace is that our Father is completely responsible and He will teach us all things.

How To Be Victorious

But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory [making us conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. Romans 8:37

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:55

But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ’s victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, 2 Corinthians 2:14

For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4

He who is victorious shall inherit all these things, and I will be God to him and he shall be My son. Revelation 21:7

We are victorious only because of Jesus. With have victory and are conquerors only because of Jesus. We always triumph only because of Christ. We are born of God, so we only enjoy victory and because Jesus ever lives to make sure that these verses come true for us, we shall inherit all things.

Think about what victory actually means. To be victorious or to enjoy victory, means that we have had to been in a battle first, or a contest, or a trial. We cannot have victory and never been through something. This is why we rejoice in our trials and persecutions, because we cannot help but to be victorious. Jesus will never allow us to know defeat. Victory does not mean that we will never be tried, we will. We will be tried a lot, but our peace is that we will never suffer defeat in our trials.  

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. Romans 5:3  

Grace Measures Us Up

It is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world [generally] and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues). 2 Corinthians 1:12

Today I just want to share a couple final thoughts on the notion of us worrying about measuring up. The Truth is that we only measure up because of Grace. For whatever reason, our Father has chosen us serve by living in His free and unmerited favor He has given us the Holy Spirit to empower us to understand this Truth. Grace is free and Grace is all undeserved. We can do absolutely nothing on our own, or through our own efforts, to live in Grace. Everything in our lives is due to our Father exerting His influence on us. God Alone causes us to be Christ like, strong, safe, faithful, hopeful, loving, believing, forgiving, and virtuous. We never take the first step to have these things so that He can in turn give them. Our Father is not reactive to our promptings, He is proactive in causing them.

John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] John 3:27

And not only that, but this too: Rebecca conceived [two sons under exactly the same circumstances] by our forefather Isaac, And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God’s purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them], It was said to her that the elder [son] should serve the younger [son]. Romans 9:10-12

We have been chosen by God and therefore we measure up. We have eternal life right now. We no longer come into judgment. We no longer have to deal with condemnation. We now have life and we have it more abundantly, all free and all unearned.   

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life. John 5:24

Hope Brings Perfection

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. Hebrews 7:19

Yesterday we talked about the Truth that we do not have to worry at all about measuring up when it comes to God. Let’s keep going with that study here today. We are shown here in Hebrews that the Law, or the What We Have to Do and Don’t Do List, never allowed anyone to measure up when it comes to our Father. Human successes have never allowed anyone to draw near to God. Look at Moses, he was pretty good and our Father still had to cover Himself up when He talked to him. Mankind just hasn’t been made to be able to ever measure up with God.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Our weakness and lack of ability in measuring up does not matter in the least. Look at what our Father tells us: the Hope that we only have to rely on Jesus has brought us perfection. We don’t even have to have faith in this, only the hope of Jesus brings perfection. We are also told that just having hope brings us close to our Father, so close to Him that He now lives continually in us.

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. John 17:23

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princess of this world, that come to naught. 1 Corinthians 2:5-6

The wisdom of the world tries to tell us that we have to believe first, or that we have to accept first, or measure up for our Father to be able to work fully through us. That is nonsense. All we have to do is have hope and even hoping for this is not left up to us by our Father.

May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope. Romans 5:13

The Holy Spirit is responsible to cause us to abound in Hope. Our burden is light and our yoke is incredibly easy. It doesn’t get any easier than being totally reliant on God and not ourselves to cause us to all abound in victory. We cannot help but to overflow with Hope. Our Father is Hope and His power causes us to believe that all things now work together for our good. We never look to ourselves, we have been perfected by Jesus and His perfection is now our perfection.

Do You Measure Up?

And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them. Ezekiel 26:37

You ever wonder if you are measuring up when it comes to God? My experience is that there are a lot of people in religion who want us to think about that kind of stuff. So many want us to wonder if we are good enough, giving enough, or spiritual enough. These kind of questions aren’t right to ask, because they cause us to focus on ourselves and not the power that is greater in us. Here is the Truth; if we aren’t measuring up then our Father’s Spirit is to blame. Saying that sounds really weird, doesn’t it? But that is the glorious Truth that passes all of our understanding. Jesus told us that we can’t do anything on our own, so to insure our success, our Father has placed His very own Spirit within us and the Holy Spirit is what causes us to live continually in the Truth that sets us free. We have the very power of God Himself within us and that is the power that makes sure that we are always in the right. Our glory is that we can’t help but to always measure up, we cannot fail! Anyone who tries to make us doubt this glorious Truth by trying to have us question ourselves is anti-christ.  

We rely 100% on Jesus. Jesus Alone is responsible for making sure that we are exactly who and what we need to be. So questioning ourselves makes no sense whatsoever.  

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]— Jude 1:24

And [how you] look forward to and await the coming of His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, Who personally rescues and delivers us out of and from the wrath [bringing punishment] which is coming [upon the impenitent] and draws us to Himself [investing us with all the privileges and rewards of the new life in Christ, the Messiah]. 1 Thessalonians 1:10

And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, 1 John 3:21

Our confidence is that we cannot in any way shape or form ever measure up through our own actions. We have perfect confidence in our complete inability of success and because we do, we never even have to take thought about such things. This peace allows us to go directly to our Father and have the boldness that we can be there. We can be there because of Jesus, it has absolutely nothing to do with our abilities, our victory it is all due to Jesus.  

Today Is Pay Day

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed in (trusted in) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living and right standing with God). to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him). Romans 4:3-4

Our Father tells us plainly that wages are not a favor or a gift. He tells us that wages are owed to the worker. That is something that I believe many of us struggle with when it comes to our lives. We question whether or not we are going to be paid by our Father? 

Remember, we work with and for our Father, we are in the Family Business. Our wages come to us directly from God Himself, not as a favor, but as an obligation. The Truth is our Father is obligated to pay us. He is obligated to pay us ever last beneficial scripture in the Bible. We do not have to beg to be paid all of the blessings that He has set either. What type of employer would our Father be if He made us beg to be paid? Who would want to work for someone that was slack in paying? Our Father said that now is our time of salvation, so now is the time that we should expect to be paid every blessed thing that we read about. Today is pay day and it is not wrong at all to fully expect to receive our full and complete pay! 

For He says, In the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold, now is truly the time for a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold, now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:2

So the question is do we have to be great workers to be paid? 

All have turned aside; together they have gone wrong and have become unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even one! Romans 3:12

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [essentially and perfectly morally] good? No one is [essentially and perfectly morally] good—except God only. Luke 18:19

Jesus, Who is God in the flesh, said that He wasn’t good, so how can we be? So thank God our being paid is not based on our skill level. Far too often we believe that our pay is based on what we do. Every church that I grew up in claimed that our pay was based on our actions. How can that be when the Truth is that even our righteousness is as filthy rags? Also, look at what our Father said about us: we have been made to mess up. For all of the Word to be true there is no way that our pay can be based on our performance level. For all of the scriptures to fit and make any sense at all, our pay has to be based on Grace. Our pay is all undeserved and it is all unearned and yet we are owed every last blessing that our Father has proclaimed is ours. Jesus was that successful in securing our pay and today is pay day! It is not evil or sinful to expect that we get paid each and every last blessing that our Father has said is ours. 
 

Because of Jesus’ success we can fully expect to be paid: faith, love, hope, joy, peace, health, fruit, power, knowledge, mercy, grace, understanding, meekness, kindness, generosity, vision, being givers, owing no man anything but to love them, and being fully used by our Father. We can expect all of these things and so much more. Whatever Jesus has and is, that is our pay and today is pay day.  

Doubt's

In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17

I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:22

I will be completely honest here, I do not have perfect faith in these scriptures. I quote these verses almost every day. I am usually preaching them to myself, attempting to get full faith in the Truth. We are told that faith comes from hearing the Truth and that the Truth sets us free, so why not talk about the really powerful Truth’s of the Bible? But I would be lying if I said that I am 100% persuaded that these verses, and the others that I so dearly love, will ever come to pass in my life in this earth. So I openly confess that I have doubts. Our Father knows this, so I didn’t catch Him off guard with that confession and by saying it didn’t give satan some free ride to come in and kick my butt. What type of Father would God be if while we are struggling with something, He would allow a killer to have his way with us because of our struggle?  

So the question is: are we responsible for removing our doubts or is Jesus responsible to remove them from us?

But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. John 16:13

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

According to our Father, He is responsible for allowing us to believe His Truth. He is responsible for guiding us and He is responsible for being the source of our Faith. So if we have doubts, and I do, it is up to our Father to get them out of us. So never beat yourself up over doubts. If you have them you are not unsaved. You are not a back slider and you haven’t been left or forsaking by God. Also, our Father is not going to pour His wrath out on you for asking what is up or why aren’t certain verses happening? Jesus asked God why He had forsaken Him and our Father didn’t leave Him in Hades to perish for His questioning. 

We need to stop wondering what we have done or what we haven’t done and we need to realize that it is up to Jesus to do all things through us. Don’t think that you have to be fully persuaded for Him to do our Father’s works through you either. Look at the Apostles, those guys doubted all of the time and our Father used them to do amazing things. Our Father even used Judas and he was a devil who would betray Jesus.