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
Scripture Of The Day – December 23, 2021
Posted 12-23-2021 at 12:22 PM by Albert Finch
Hebrews 4:15 - "For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been tempted in all things like as we are, yet without sin."
What comfort and strength comes at such a time to a soul, when it sees that Jesus is able to sympathize and to succor (aid, help, furnish relief), because He has Himself been thus tempted.
Or did it not become so dark in His soul, that He had to wrestle and to cry -- “if it be possible?" and "Why has thou forsaken Me?"
He too had to trust God in the dark.
He too, in the hour of death had to let go His spirit, and commit it, in the darkness of death, into God's keeping.
He knew what it was to walk in darkness and see no light.
And when a believer feels utterly helpless and in despair, Jesus can sympathize with him; He was tempted in all things like as we are.
JESUS BRINGS US INTO THE REST OF GOD
If we would but rest in the assurance that He understands it all, that He feels for us with a sympathy, in which the infinite love of God and the tenderness of a fellow-sufferer are combined, and is able to succor him, we should soon reach the rest of God. Trusting Jesus would bring us into it.
QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF
Am I willing to be a partaker of a heavenly CALLING?
Am I driven to hold fast to my confession to know the full power of Jesus to save?
Am I willing to listen today to the voice of the Holy Spirit?
What comfort and strength comes at such a time to a soul, when it sees that Jesus is able to sympathize and to succor (aid, help, furnish relief), because He has Himself been thus tempted.
Or did it not become so dark in His soul, that He had to wrestle and to cry -- “if it be possible?" and "Why has thou forsaken Me?"
He too had to trust God in the dark.
He too, in the hour of death had to let go His spirit, and commit it, in the darkness of death, into God's keeping.
He knew what it was to walk in darkness and see no light.
And when a believer feels utterly helpless and in despair, Jesus can sympathize with him; He was tempted in all things like as we are.
JESUS BRINGS US INTO THE REST OF GOD
If we would but rest in the assurance that He understands it all, that He feels for us with a sympathy, in which the infinite love of God and the tenderness of a fellow-sufferer are combined, and is able to succor him, we should soon reach the rest of God. Trusting Jesus would bring us into it.
QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF
Am I willing to be a partaker of a heavenly CALLING?
Am I driven to hold fast to my confession to know the full power of Jesus to save?
Am I willing to listen today to the voice of the Holy Spirit?
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