Five gifts God gave us

Five Gifts God gave us.

Five things God did for us we could not do for ourselves.

John 3:27 John (the Baptist) answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

1.   GIFT OF LIFE Ephesians 1:3-6  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

God knew you before your mama and papa knew you.  God knew you before you knew yourself. You have nothing to do with the fact that you were born, where you were born or why you were born. We are all passive actors in the process of physical birth. 

Life is a gift from God. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you;" Your science teacher may tell you that life is formed from the mating of a sperm and egg. However, the Bible says:

Job 10:8-11 ‘Your hands have made me and fashioned me, an intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me. Remember, I pray, that you have made me like clay. And will you turn me into dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews?  Whom are you going to believe, the Word of God or your science teacher?

2.   GIFT OF BREATH   Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

The breath of life is the gift of life and it comes from the hand of He who is eternal life.  God can take it away at any time and will take it away at His appointed time, as each of us must go the way of all flesh. 

Your science teacher may tell you the process of respiration is an autonomic process but the Bible says: Job 12:10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all humankind.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 34:14-15 If He should set His heart on it, If He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

In the book of Daniel Chapter 5: Dan 5:23b; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

In the verse, Daniel is telling the king, that God hold our breath and the breath of all living creatures, in the palm of His hand. Every breath is a gift from Him.

Your science teach may tell you the process of respiration is an autonomic process but the Bible say in Job 12:10  In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Whom are you going to believe, your science teacher or the Word of God?

GIFT OF THE GOSPEL Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew