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
Called For Glory
Posted 08-08-2021 at 09:54 PM by Albert Finch
Ephesians 2:10 - "For we are God's own workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus, that we may do those good works which God predestined for us, that we should walk in them."
2 Corinthians 3:18 - "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."
Seeing His glory is more than just seeing His beautiful colors and majesty of His person. The glory of the Lord is described in a number of ways in Scripture, such as:
His Works
His Nature
His Power
By seeing His nature, we are transformed into the same nature.
By seeing His works, we are empowered to do His work.
By seeing His power we grow in the faith that releases His power.
GENERAL RULE: IF YOU ARE DRAWN TO A CERTAIN PART OF THE LORD'S NATURE, PURSUE IT!
If we are called to be a pastor or shepherd, we will perceive His glory as the Good Shepherd. A shepherd will tend to see Jesus' shepherding nature in everything Jesus did and will be transformed into that aspect of His glory by this.
Likewise, someone who is called to be a teacher will see Jesus' glory as the Teacher in everything He did, and this will transform and impart to them His teaching nature.
An evangelist will tend to see Jesus' glory in the Evangelist in all that He did, and they will be likewise transformed into that part of His nature.
As the Scriptures verify, we were known by God and CALLED by Him before the foundation of the world. When He made us, He made us with a purpose, and that CALLING in Christ is over and above our secular vocation:
If we are called to a teaching ministry, few things will be as rewarding as seeing people receive understanding about the Lord and His ways.
If we are called to a healing ministry, few things will be as rewarding as seeing someone healed.
If we are called to prophetic ministry, receiving revelation from the Lord will be one of the most fulfilling things that can happen to us, and so on......
QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF:
What is it about Jesus that attracts me to Him the most?
What is it that He did that I would love to be able to do the most?
Affirmations:
BY KNOWING HIM, BEHOLDING HIM, AND FOLLOWING HIM, THERE IS AN IMPARTATION THAT RELEASES HIS AUTHORITY IN ME.
MY BASIC PURPOSE IS TO RECEIVE GOD’S LOVE IN MY HEART SO I CAN FLOW INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS, BE TRANSFORMED BY HIM, AND DO THE WORKS HE PREDESTINED FOR ME.
2 Corinthians 3:18 - "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."
Seeing His glory is more than just seeing His beautiful colors and majesty of His person. The glory of the Lord is described in a number of ways in Scripture, such as:
His Works
His Nature
His Power
By seeing His nature, we are transformed into the same nature.
By seeing His works, we are empowered to do His work.
By seeing His power we grow in the faith that releases His power.
GENERAL RULE: IF YOU ARE DRAWN TO A CERTAIN PART OF THE LORD'S NATURE, PURSUE IT!
If we are called to be a pastor or shepherd, we will perceive His glory as the Good Shepherd. A shepherd will tend to see Jesus' shepherding nature in everything Jesus did and will be transformed into that aspect of His glory by this.
Likewise, someone who is called to be a teacher will see Jesus' glory as the Teacher in everything He did, and this will transform and impart to them His teaching nature.
An evangelist will tend to see Jesus' glory in the Evangelist in all that He did, and they will be likewise transformed into that part of His nature.
As the Scriptures verify, we were known by God and CALLED by Him before the foundation of the world. When He made us, He made us with a purpose, and that CALLING in Christ is over and above our secular vocation:
If we are called to a teaching ministry, few things will be as rewarding as seeing people receive understanding about the Lord and His ways.
If we are called to a healing ministry, few things will be as rewarding as seeing someone healed.
If we are called to prophetic ministry, receiving revelation from the Lord will be one of the most fulfilling things that can happen to us, and so on......
QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF:
What is it about Jesus that attracts me to Him the most?
What is it that He did that I would love to be able to do the most?
Affirmations:
BY KNOWING HIM, BEHOLDING HIM, AND FOLLOWING HIM, THERE IS AN IMPARTATION THAT RELEASES HIS AUTHORITY IN ME.
MY BASIC PURPOSE IS TO RECEIVE GOD’S LOVE IN MY HEART SO I CAN FLOW INTO THE LIVES OF OTHERS, BE TRANSFORMED BY HIM, AND DO THE WORKS HE PREDESTINED FOR ME.
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