LIMITLESS
LIMITLESS
James 2-4 ‘you have not because you ask not”
John Wesley, a minister in England [1703 -1791], once made the statement that, “It seems God is limited by our prayer life, that He can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks Him.”
I have the life philosophy of a watermelon farmer. The moment a water melon stops growing, it begins to rot. You have to harvest a ripe watermelon immediately. Grow or die.
This is my weekly missive. I feel most of my material (not all) are things God wanted to show me. I journal my new discoveries every week. Although I only journal my new spiritual findings, I study a lot of other things. I study which exercise and stretches help me or hurt me. (Approaching 70, most hurt. My above ground pool is a game changer as far as ‘hurtless’ exercising goes.) I study Spanish continuously, and every week I discover a new word or two. I study my staff, and ministry very closely and find ways to improve relations and effectiveness.
This week I learned about the limits of God. If you would have asked me yesterday ‘If God Was Limitless?’, I would have assured you that He was. Then I would have tried to find that word ‘limitless’ as it applied to God in the King James Version of the Bible and I would have been surprised! It’s not there!! In fact, the word ‘limitless’ is only used twice in the entire KJV and neither time it has to do with God!
The power, knowledge and reach of God of course is limitless, but He does have limitations. God’s love, perfection and just makes Him limited.
An age old question ‘Can God create a rock so heavy that even he could not lift it?’ There is a biblical answer to that question. Jesus collapsed under the weight of his own cross. The theological answer is that God could create such a thing when he submits himself to his own rules. Which He did when He came down as His Son to die for our sins.
When I discovered this fact yesterday, my theological opinions were shattered for a minute. How can God have limitations? I refer to things I have held as a truth my whole as ‘sacred cows’. It’s upsetting when they get eliminated. The more I study and search, the more my ‘sacred cows’ moo and disappear. I praise God for when my world gets shaken because I always dig deeper and learn more.
I always thought of God as being so powerful that he could do anything without limitations. But now that I think about it, God does have limitations! They don’t take anything away from who He is. I’ve changed my opinion about God. But God has never changed, in fact, He cannot change (Hebrews 13:8).
God is all powerful and all knowing and ever present. But he is not a God without limits. In fact, God has a few limitations. These limitations should encourage us. We serve the real and true, living God.
Here’s five limitations of God. There are more though…
1. God is limited by his character - God’s moral attributes are unchangeable. God cannot become bad or evil, or unfaithful, or untrustworthy. He does not have the ability to be bad in any sense. God chooses to be good because he is good and cannot choose otherwise. He is good in the totality of his being and nature.
2. God is limited by his power - This might seem illogical. If God is all-powerful then surely he is unlimited. But, on the contrary, God’s all-powerful nature limits him to do things that are only consistent with his power. Even Jesus’ death was an expression of his power. Who can kill the almighty God? Man did this once on the cross, but only because God’s power made it so, through His becoming a man. It was through His power that Philippians 2:7 says that Jesus “emptied himself.” This does not mean that He did away with his power. Rather, it means that he used his power to forgo His divine powers while he was human. He was still all-powerful, but he limited the exercise of his power.
3. God is limited by his nature - It is impossible for him not to be everywhere all the time. It is impossible for him to limit his sight, or hearing, or understanding, or perceptions. You cannot surprise God or have him be unaware of your sufferings or troubles. He knows them all and it is impossible for him not to know them all.
4. God is limited by his love - Remember that the scripture says that God is love (I John 4:16). His love is an all encompassing attribute. It is because of his love that he became a man and died on the cross for our benefit. Everything that God does for us is done through his motivation of love. He will, therefore, never do that which eternally harms us. We may experience trial and harm for brief periods, but not for eternity. God’s love forbids him from doing his people harm—those whom He has chosen for himself, from the foundation of the World.
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5. God is limited by his words - The scripture tells us that it is impossible for God to lie (Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 6:18). He is unable to go back on his promises. Once he has said something in the way of a promise, then you can bank on it—forever. It will not change because his words do not change. What he speaks once is permanent.
6. God is limited by his eternality - This means that God does not exist in linear time as we understand it. God is eternal. The past, present, and future are the same to him. For God, all that will happen has happened and is happening and never ends. Therefore, for God to change would change his eternality, his very nature, which the scripture says is unchangeable. Thus, if such a thing were to happen God would cease to be God. Such a thing cannot happen. We should take great comfort from this. It means that his word to you and his intentions toward you are unchangeable. If he says he loves you and promises a wonderful eternity for you then he cannot go back on that word and change it. You can depend upon it in totality.
Take comfort in knowing God is eternal and all powerful and all-knowing but he is also a God of limitations. Imagine the terror we would experience if God could change his mind on a simple whim, or because we did something bad. No, God is not like this in the slightest. And for that reason, I take comfort in the fact that I serve an all-powerful God of limitations.
The children we serve in the dump have such troubled and tumultuous lives that it is important to teach them the stable, unchanging realities of God. I wish I could ‘unteach’ them all they learned up until now. They have a mix of teachings of vudu, santeria, witch craft, false religions and exaggerating evangelicals but we fight lies with truth. Not even giving credence to the false beliefs by arguing is teaching the truth. Turning on the light of God slowly replaces all the lies of darkness.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Love in Christ
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Needs For PureHeartChildren’sFund 1. I have permission to bring a household goods container and a vehicle container down here free of customs and tax fees. If your church or if you know of other churches that would like to help, PLEASE Email me at [email protected] for an exhaustive list of things we need for our containers for many ministries down here and to start the orphanage and old folks home, Lord willing. 2. We are looking for an american social media influencer IF YOU KNOW OF ONE LET ME KNOW. He or she needs to fly the PureHeartChildren’sFund flag
3. We are looking for donated vehicles. Our two that we have are really old and leave us stranded a lot.
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1. Just got back from a beautiful, successful medical and FRIENDSRAISING TRIP to SaltLakeCity (Lehi Utah). Looking forward to visiting YOU!
2. We can ship a donated car down and a container of household goods free of import tax. ?(Also, we’re a non-profit down here as well being an accredited 501c3 in the states). ?That means we will give you a form to declare for a write off. IE donated vehicles, boats, motorcycles, golf carts may be written off for taxes at full blue book value. The first container is household goods is for the school, feedingcenters,orphanage and old folks home in the future. and another container is for a vehicle (free of import tax) or two.
3. English class, Daily Bible studies, school and feeding centers are all going exceptionally well and growing exponentially.
4. ?We are also looking to buy two used containers that we will permanently own and will be shipped down here once filled. ?We use them for construction once they are unloaded. ?Unloading the household goods can take months. I have already built a few buildings using containers, one is a 3 story radio station (long before container homes were ever popular).
(A) 1 container of household goods. Bunk beds, mess kits, mess hall items, food truck, furniture, lawn mower, dishwasher, desks, soccer and baseball team uniforms and balls, baseball team equipment, linen, sheets, pillows, linen, mattresses, (no used clothes except for new uniforms, medical scrubs, flip flops, crocks and sports shoes please), industrial kitchen stuff, electrical dishwasher, water heater (for washing dishes and showers or widowmakers for the american teams), window AC units, AC, UPS, computers, electronics, circuit breakers, above ground pool (for baptisms) school supplies. ?Arts and crafts. Office supplies. Hospital supplies. ?Baby, old folks, and surgery materials and equipment. ?Tools Etc.
(B) Another container to bring 2 vehicles, automatic trans (under 9 years old) Idealy, one van 9-10 passenger and one car or small pick up .
4. Things are making progress with the government, land aquisition and accounting!!
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PRAYER REQUESTS
1. For Souls and Fruit.
2. FOR HEALING OF LOVED ONES WITH EVERYTHING FROM CANCER TO MENTAL ILLNESS.
3. FOR HOME VISITATIONS AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITIES TO PRODUCE RESULTS, FOR VISITORS AND STUDENTS TO OUR HOME TO GET SAVED. FOR THE FAMILIES AND PARENTS OF ALL THE PUREHEART WORKERS TO GET SAVED.
4. FOR OUR 2 FEEDING CENTERS AND THE TWO OTHER FEEDING CENTERS THAT WE HELP. FOR OUR SISTER FEEDING CENTER IN ISLAMBAD PAKISTAN. ?LOT’S OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND ATTACKS GOING ON THERE AS WELL.
5. FOR YOU, OUR FRIENDS, SHORT TERM TEAMS PRESENT, PAST AND IN THE FUTURE, PRAYER WARRIORS, DONORS AND SUPPORTERS.
6. CONTINUED FAVOR WITH THE GOVERNMENT. 7. AMONG OF WHICH IS FOR PERMISSION TO HAVE AN ORPHANAGE-OLDFOLKS HOME ON THE SAME LOT /WORKING FARM.
7. THE DELAY IS OK, BECAUSE WE ARE STILL WAITING ON THE LORD TO PROVIDE THE MONEY AND THE CONTINUED RESOURCES FOR ALL THE FULL TIME STAFF, DOCTOR, NURSE, AIDES ETC THAT COME WITH A FARM OR LARGE LOT THAT HAS ROOM FOR AN ORPHANAGE, SPECIAL NEEDS CARE ?AND AN OLD FOLKS HOME ON IT, AS WELL AS THE PROPERTY ITSELF. EVEN WITH JUST AN ORPHANAGE HERE, OUR STAFF WILL ALMOST HAVE TO DOUBLE IN SIZE PER NICARAGUAN REGULATIONS, WITH AT LEAST ONE PHYSICAN.
8. FOR OUR OWN CHILDREN`S SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND SAFETY WHILE STUDYING IN THE STATES.
9. For wisdom and more Jesus, less Dean.
10. PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM, THEY SHALL PROSPER THAT LOVE YOU. ?PRAY FOR THE ?KIDS HELD HOSTAGE, THEIR FAMILIES, FOR THE INNOCENTS IN GAZA, UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND ALL FAMILIES IN MOURNING AROUND THE WORLD. 11. Pray with us for America, ?Where America goes, the rest of the world follows- PASTOR MIKE MACINTOSH IS LEADING THE WAY!CLICk HERE AND LEARN HOW.
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A TALL ORDER, BUT NOTHING IS TOO BIG FOR GOD, NOT EVEN DIFFICULT.
LOVE DEAN AND WINNIE PETERS
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