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What Is Your Response When God Speaks to You?

Text:

Mark 1:17-18 (NLT)

17  Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”

18  And they left their nets at once and followed him.

Observation:

When is the last time you heard God speak to you? What was your response?

A question that grips my soul is this, “What Shall I Give to God?” Really, what do I have that He would desire? Here is the only thing I know that I have that I could give Him, and it would surely please Him.

Romans 12:1 (NLT)

1  And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

Why would I hold on to all of me, and get what I can do? What would be the profit of that? The result would be what I could do. But, if I give all of me to Him, He will give me all of Him. The result of that transaction would be that I would be able to give back to Him and to others, what God can do.

Mark 10:45 (NLT)

45  For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Luke 14:33 (NLT)

33  So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.

There is no investment you can make; short term or long term, that will render more of a return than giving all you to the Lord. Think about this; all of me in exchange for all of God.

Prayer:

Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, Your love for us, and Your grace and mercy to us is so amazing to believe, and see, when we fix our eyes of faith upon You. Father, give us a faith that will not doubt or wander aimlessly without hope.

Father, I ask that You would tune our hearts, by the office work of the Holy Spirit, to be able to sing this song to You as our response to Your invitation to come to You.

“All to Jesus I surrender,

All to Him I freely give;

I will ever love and trust Him,

In His presence daily live.”

Father, receive our gift that we willingly give to You. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

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Ephesians 6:10-11 (ESV)
10  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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Calling the Mature to Lead

Text:

Colossians 2:1-3 (NLT)

1  I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the church at Laodicea, and for many other believers who have never met me personally.

2  I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself.

3  In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Observation:

I sense in my spirit that God is up to something huge as we prepare to enter a new year. I see signs of it being manifested in the Body of Christ. In my local congregation we are calling for a bold and audacious gathering of God’s people to knit together in love for God, and for one another as we seek God’s will, and speak God’s Word as the Word of God commands us to do.

I sense a fresh and renewed call to carry out the Great Commission, and the Great Commandment. Now is the time to trust in the Lord, and do what He tells us to do.

Matthew 28:19-20 (HCSB)

19  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20  teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 22:36-39 (ESV)

36  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

37  And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

38  This is the great and first commandment.

39  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

What is your purpose in life? Do you pray using the pattern Jesus taught about prayer?

Luke 11:2 (ESV)

2  And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.

O, that we as God’s people would have these three character traits of maturity.

  • Be encouraged
  • Be strong
  • Be assured

Prayer:

Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, I pray that we, Your people, will pray daily for the coming of Your kingdom to earth as we, the people of God, speak the Word, and live the Word in the power of the Holy Spirit, and in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Luke 1:37 (ESV)

37  For nothing will be impossible with God.”

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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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