Serving God His Way and Not Yours

1 Samuel 12:24

“Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.” 

Are you serving God your way like Cain tried to do? If you are thinking God is going to adjust His ways for you then you need to repent and be born again. There's a reason God's word is the standard for us to live by. That reason is to serve Him in spirit and in truth and all for God's glory. Look at what Cain did with his offering that he wanted God to accept.

Genesis chapter 4

GenesiChapter 4

4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

5But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

6And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

This is the fruit of Cain, even to the point that he was angry that God would not accept him and jealous that Abel was favored with God. All Abel did was obey God and thats all Cain had to do. Cain even murdered his brother. 

1 Timothy 4:12

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” 

This is the fruit of a godly young man and not a carnal one. This is a man who puts his flesh to death and serves God daily. 

Why are you not serving God the way His word says to? 

Serving God your way: 

.going to man made Sunday ritualistic system and following traditions of men

Colossians 2:8

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” 

.Setting your mind on doing great things for God but not being led by His spirit, which means being led by your flesh

Romans 8:5

“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” 

.Letting experiences that you had dictate that 

you are serving God (people claiming they seen visions and other strange experiences that supposedly is a confirmation that God is with them). 

1 John 4:1

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 

.Wearing what you want and thinking God does not care.

Deuteronomy 22:5

“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so areabomination unto the LORD thy God.” 

Genesis 3:21

“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” 

This was a sin covering. 

.staying in pagan holidays

Jeremiah Chapter 10

1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

.Not forgiving others

Ephesians 4:32

“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” 

Matthew 6:14

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” 

.pleasing your flesh with music, entertainment and fellowship idolatry thinking and presuming upon God's mercies thinking He is ok with it

Romans 12:3

“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” 

.women becoming feminist serving God their way such as teaching and preaching to men and rebuking them

1 Timothy Chapter 2

11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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Hebrews 10:26

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,” 

Proverbs 25:28

“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” 

Matthew 6:24

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” 

We are to worship in spirit and truth and serve God according to His word 

John 4:24

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” 

John Chapter 4

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

Romans 12:1

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” 

Matthew 7:21

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” 

Galatians 1:10

“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” 

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 

I hope this article encourages you to seek God and obey Him per His word.

May God be praised!!!