Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
Sunday School - June 19, 2011
Posted 06-18-2011 at 06:12 PM by Albert Finch
Affirmation: I base my prayers on God's word to bring me through difficulties and give me the victory that is mine.
The Holy Spirit may wake you up at 6:00 AM and tell you to go tell people about Jesus on the city block four streets down. What will your reaction be? - Norvel Hayes
Reality is not found in ritual. True faith is a river of life too powerful to be contained in the weak structures men have tried to construct. The true church is a source of power and life that no building or institution can contain. - Rick Joyner
We can mistakenly think that focusing our our lack and comparing ourselves to others is a posture of humility. Instead of focusing on God's greatness in our lives we are focusing ourselves. We are actually agreeing with the enemy by making our own problems bigger than God's promises. - Bill Johnson
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his great power." - Ephesians 6:10
Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. - Anthony de Mello
Affirmation: I stay in touch with God so that I am nourished in both life and vision.
If you do not forgive those who have hurt you, you will lose a measure of your capacity to love. God will use your forgiveness of others to make you like Christ. - Francis Frangipane
As our transformed heart becomes encased in the regularity of everyday life, we perceive that we are sent to make the all-embracing love of the Father known to people who hunger and thirst for love. - Henri Nouwen
"And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also." - 1 John 4:21
Most believers know precious little about priestly ministry beyond the veil. We have been mastering the art of "going to men" for God, but we've never mastered the art of "going to God" for men. - Alice Smith
God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! - Leonard Ravenhill
Affirmation: I cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
God wants to break open the rivers of His counsel in the life of every believer. He wants us to walk in the boundless anointing of the Holy Spirit - all of the time. This river of life is for you, your life, your family, and your destiny. - Keith Miller
Prayer may well be defined as that force which vitalizes and energizes the Word of God, by taking hold of God, himself. By taking hold of the promiser, prayer reissues, and makes personal the promise. - E. M. Bounds
"Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me." - Isaiah 64:7
If Jesus would not rely on His perfect flesh but relied instead on the Holy Spirit, how much more ought we to depend on the Holy Spirit? - Watchman Nee
Holy Spirit, make of me a pure channel through which You will flow. Amen - William J. Seymour (May 1908)
Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com
The Holy Spirit may wake you up at 6:00 AM and tell you to go tell people about Jesus on the city block four streets down. What will your reaction be? - Norvel Hayes
Reality is not found in ritual. True faith is a river of life too powerful to be contained in the weak structures men have tried to construct. The true church is a source of power and life that no building or institution can contain. - Rick Joyner
We can mistakenly think that focusing our our lack and comparing ourselves to others is a posture of humility. Instead of focusing on God's greatness in our lives we are focusing ourselves. We are actually agreeing with the enemy by making our own problems bigger than God's promises. - Bill Johnson
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his great power." - Ephesians 6:10
Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. - Anthony de Mello
Affirmation: I stay in touch with God so that I am nourished in both life and vision.
If you do not forgive those who have hurt you, you will lose a measure of your capacity to love. God will use your forgiveness of others to make you like Christ. - Francis Frangipane
As our transformed heart becomes encased in the regularity of everyday life, we perceive that we are sent to make the all-embracing love of the Father known to people who hunger and thirst for love. - Henri Nouwen
"And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also." - 1 John 4:21
Most believers know precious little about priestly ministry beyond the veil. We have been mastering the art of "going to men" for God, but we've never mastered the art of "going to God" for men. - Alice Smith
God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer! - Leonard Ravenhill
Affirmation: I cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
God wants to break open the rivers of His counsel in the life of every believer. He wants us to walk in the boundless anointing of the Holy Spirit - all of the time. This river of life is for you, your life, your family, and your destiny. - Keith Miller
Prayer may well be defined as that force which vitalizes and energizes the Word of God, by taking hold of God, himself. By taking hold of the promiser, prayer reissues, and makes personal the promise. - E. M. Bounds
"Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me." - Isaiah 64:7
If Jesus would not rely on His perfect flesh but relied instead on the Holy Spirit, how much more ought we to depend on the Holy Spirit? - Watchman Nee
Holy Spirit, make of me a pure channel through which You will flow. Amen - William J. Seymour (May 1908)
Albert Finch
http://afministry.ning.com
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The resources for the 'fruitfull' Christian life. Are all found in the person of Jesus Christ. Nothing else matters. He is the ONE SOURCE!!Posted 07-03-2011 at 11:20 AM by SityData
