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
Daily Meditations And Affirmations - 126
Posted 01-15-2017 at 05:56 PM by Albert Finch
If we are to experience RESTORATION, we must believe in one true God and in His living Word.
God promised us this very thing through Joel: "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, my great army which I sent among you" (Joel 2:25).
What a magnificent promise. Do you believe it? They may not always line up with our time frame, but always with His.
To restore means that God makes restitution for what has been taken. It means to complete, finish, and to make safe. Interestingly enough, the Hebrew word for restoration is the root word of shalom, which means that God makes us whole, He strengthens us, and restores our peace.
When God says that He will restore to us what the locusts have eaten, He is promising to make us whole and complete, which will in turn lead us into our DESTINIES.
John 14:6,7 - "Jesus saith unto him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.'"
Unless we can be corrected, unless we are seeking God for an unfolding revelation of His Son, our so-called "faith" may be, in reality, just a lazy indifference, a deception concerning the things of God. Subconsciously, we may actually want a dead religion so we do not have to change. True faith is freighted with the power of God.
Timothy 3:5 - "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. "
"The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly" - (John 10:10).
We know that the enemy's strategy is to create destruction in our lives. Yet, Jesus said He came to give us abundant life!
The word life is translated "Zoe" in the Greek, which means THE GOD KIND OF LIFE.
You are called to live the God kind of life!
This life is not a life of lack but a life of abundance; a life of overflow! Do not settle for anything that is not God's best! God wants the very best for His children!
AFFIRMATIONS:
God is calling for me to arise and take a strong stand against the works of darkness (Jude 1-4). I am to take the land.
I lay hold of the promises of God, take Him at His word, and stand firm in faith.
Rather than just being content to sit and hear, I become an activator of the Word.
God promised us this very thing through Joel: "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, my great army which I sent among you" (Joel 2:25).
What a magnificent promise. Do you believe it? They may not always line up with our time frame, but always with His.
To restore means that God makes restitution for what has been taken. It means to complete, finish, and to make safe. Interestingly enough, the Hebrew word for restoration is the root word of shalom, which means that God makes us whole, He strengthens us, and restores our peace.
When God says that He will restore to us what the locusts have eaten, He is promising to make us whole and complete, which will in turn lead us into our DESTINIES.
John 14:6,7 - "Jesus saith unto him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.'"
Unless we can be corrected, unless we are seeking God for an unfolding revelation of His Son, our so-called "faith" may be, in reality, just a lazy indifference, a deception concerning the things of God. Subconsciously, we may actually want a dead religion so we do not have to change. True faith is freighted with the power of God.
Timothy 3:5 - "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. "
"The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but I am come that they may have life and have it more abundantly" - (John 10:10).
We know that the enemy's strategy is to create destruction in our lives. Yet, Jesus said He came to give us abundant life!
The word life is translated "Zoe" in the Greek, which means THE GOD KIND OF LIFE.
You are called to live the God kind of life!
This life is not a life of lack but a life of abundance; a life of overflow! Do not settle for anything that is not God's best! God wants the very best for His children!
AFFIRMATIONS:
God is calling for me to arise and take a strong stand against the works of darkness (Jude 1-4). I am to take the land.
I lay hold of the promises of God, take Him at His word, and stand firm in faith.
Rather than just being content to sit and hear, I become an activator of the Word.
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