The Answer to Everything Is God

By Angelous Ingram

Are you going through trials, struggles, unwanted situations, not knowing which way to turn? The answer to everything is God. Trust and believe in His Word, and watch Him change things.

I wrote this book, with the help of God, to steer all people in the right direction, to encourage hearts and minds, and lead them to the one who matters mo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Aug 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685565886

Angelous Ingram

Angelous Ingram resides in Ansonville, North Carolina. She has been married to Delman for forty-six years. She has five siblings: Rachel, Arvester, Margaret, Nancy, and James. Angelous has two sons, Delvis and Julius, and their wives, Archinya and Jerilyn. She is blessed with four lovely grandchildren: Delangelo, Antonio, Jesalyn, and Julian. The author is the oldest of the late Bishop A. V. Lindsey and the late Mamie T. Lindsey. The answer to everything is God.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank God for placing words in my heart and spirit to write this book, letting the world know that, regardless of what they are going through, the least of problems or the worst of problems that may be encountered, He is the answer and conclusion to them all.

To God be the glory.

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always,

even unto the end of the world.

Matthew 28:20

It’s All Good

When God created the world, the heaven, and earth, it was all good. Genesis 1:4 tells us when He made light, it was good. When He made the waters, grass, living creatures, beast, fowls of the air, and even man, it was all good (Genesis chapter 1 and 2). If man wouldn’t have sinned, I still believe that everything that was made would have remained good.

Looking around us these days, it seems that everything has gone bad; bad news, bad relationships, bad finances, and more bad than good. I believe that God’s purpose was that the world remained good, especially for His people. He saw that sin crept into His good creation and turned things bad, but He didn’t give up. He sent His Son Jesus so that we could return back to Him for our eternal good.

God also gave us the opportunity to ask Him for good things when bad things come about. Matthew 7:11 says, If then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

When people hurt us, ridicule us, it doesn’t feel good. When bad things happen, and we don’t understand why, we as people of God are supposed to accept it because it’s only for our good. If God allows these things to happen to us, He is more than able to bring us through and out of any situation. We must look at these things as being all good. Of course, we don’t like to suffer or go through bad situations, but God still wants the good for us. Romans 8:28 says, And we know that all things work together for the good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.

The Lord loved us so that He was willing to lay down His life for us. He said in John 10:11, I am the good shepherd; and the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. He had to really love us to die for us. Dying in the natural sounds bad, but He did it for our good.

We don’t like it when things turn sour for us; money looks funny, people talk about us, our stuff is all messed up or lost, death comes to take our loved ones, and friends turn their backs on us. It may not even feel good, look good, or smell good. Things may seem worse than bad, but if we can look from the spiritual side of things, it’s all good. By looking to Jesus for His help, we that are His children can ask Him to bring us out of anything, and, in time, He will. James 1:2 says, My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.

The Lord wants the good out of us by living according to His Word. If we could only do this, we could see our blessings come with an overflow. In the end, we can gladly say, It’s all good! Why? Because He is God and is all good!

Held Accountable

People have the audacity to ridicule, backbite, talk junk to, or talk about us as Christians. It doesn’t feel good to us, and it hurts sometimes. But, did you know, we as Christians are held accountable for our actions? The way we respond to these critics is what God looks at when these things occur.

We, as Christians, are supposed to be able to take a licking and keep on ticking, but a lot of Christians can’t take anything. We are supposed to walk the straight and narrow path, for we are peculiar people. First Peter 2:9, But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

God loves us so that sometimes He allows critics in our lives to test us or see if we are in right standing with Him. These times come about to keep us praying and looking to Him for whatever comes our way. Naturally, in the flesh, it seems like this should make us weak, but it comes to make us stronger in the Spirit.

Just like the Lord, when He spoke to Joshua after the death of Moses to be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou go (Joshua 1:9). When we are ridiculed, He didn’t tell us to get revenge or get that person back, talk ugly to them, hit them upside the head, or do to them what they have done to us. When we are done wrong, we shouldn’t do wrong to them because we are held accountable for what we do. If we get ‘em, get ‘em, get ‘em, He will get us. We should do unto others as we should have them to do unto us (Matthew 7:12). As we have heard in past messages, if you sow it, you shall reap it.

A lot of people have a pick on us because we are Christians. We are set up, lied on, tested, done certain ways, just to see what we will say, act, or how we will respond. It’s like we are running on a thin line, a slipping of the joint, or a push before a fall; this is when we need to grab hold and hold on to the Lord a little tighter. We need to get in the Word of God and let the Word get in us. Live what we read about and tell others about.

We, as Christians, are always down for the count; someone is always looking and waiting to see us fall, break, give up on believing in the Lord. While they are really trying to really get us down, we need to bounce back to Jesus, who will always be by our side. If we do fall, ask Him to forgive us for our wrong, for if we don’t, we will be held accountable.

His Grace and Mercy

If it weren’t for God’s grace and mercy, a lot of us wouldn’t be here today. He spared our lives through dangers, seen and unseen. What would we do without His grace and mercy? Nothing!

Through that accident that merely happened or did happen, His grace and mercy allowed us to live just a little longer.

He protects us, even when we don’t realize the closeness of danger. One Friday morning, as I was headed to work, I was enjoying the morning beauty of the moon on one side and the horizon on the other side. Just