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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
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Living In Eternity

Posted 10-23-2023 at 06:03 PM by Albert Finch


Matthew 6:10 - "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

What world is more real to us?

Is it this present world or the eternal?

We live out of the kingdom we think most about – what our heart and mind are anchored in.


FREEDOM IN OUR SPIRIT

When we are more aware of the ultimate eternal life with God when the temporal world no longer makes much difference, there is a freedom that comes in our spirit – because this place is not our home. We are journeying through this life knowing that our home is that which is not made by hands but by God in the Heavens.

The truth is that we can now live out of the PLACE OF ETERNITY.

ETERNAL LIFE is also a way of life. We live from this quality of life that Jesus opened the way for us to experience.

Your Christ identity manifested through your Christ calling is the place to live from. It seems so abstract because it is so different from ordinary daily living and mindsets.

Paul tells us to focus on the eternal, not the temporal. In this, we free our minds from the cares of this life.

The ETERNAL REALM is comprised of the life we are called to live in.


HEAVEN IS OUR HOME

The eternal realm is in God. But, make it more personal: He is our Father, the Everlasting Father.

God is trying to bring His people to a place where they learn how to live from heaven towards earth. The reason is that His heart is to establish the Kingdom of Heaven throughout the whole earth. The desire to go to heaven can never cancel out His command to us to bring heaven to earth.


DEVELOPING A KINGDOM OF HEAVEN CONSCIOUSNESS

Whatever our meditation is, that is what we will end up talking about the most. We talk about what is most valuable to us or what we've chosen to make our meditation. In all these things we need to yield our hearts and thoughts to God, ask Him to fill us with His thoughts, meditate on His words, and fix our eyes on our Christ calling so we can bring heaven to earth by “bearing fruit that remains” (John 15:16) for God’s Kingdom.



ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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