Continuing Michael's message, he writes that the best way to love your children is to love your wife. The best way to love your wife is to love God above all. Loving thy neighbor as thyself depends on loving God first. Then we can serve others with Christ’s heart behind our heart. Then we can understand Jesus’ words of wisdom: “inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me” - Matthew 25:40b. Warren Wiersbe said that Christian service is a result of Christian devotion. God must make the worker before He can assign the work. Jesus doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called. As Christians, our responsibility is our response to His ability. Therefore, meditate on these things in the Word of God. As it is proclaimed in 1 Timothy 4:15 “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. Commit thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear unto all."
As we meditate on His word, he will weave into our hearts the fabric of his will. The wisdom and understanding of the Lord will be manifest in our lives when we make his will our will and his purpose our purpose. We are told in 1 Peter 2:9 “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” We’re called from the darkness of this world to declare the excellency of God’s grace, mercy, and peace ... for God alone is worthy to be praised. The purpose of His calling is that we should be to the praise of the glory of His grace ... for He alone is worth of all glory and honor and praise.
He gave us His power so that we could attain patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. The patience is in abiding with and within our Lord Jesus Christ. In John 15: 5 Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.”
The devil attacks men and women of God so that they will forget the reason for their calling. To make it as God’s man, we must spend time in His presence and in His word. To hunger and thirst after righteousness is an acquired taste. According to Proverbs, taste and see that the Lord is good. The prophet said, I found Your words and I did eat them. And they became unto me the joy and rejoicing of my soul. When we deliberately delight ourselves in the Lord, making His desire our desire and his delight our delight, then he will give us the desires of our hearts.
The battlefield is for hearts and minds and it is heavily defended territory. It begins in our own hearts. The spiritual battle is the battle to turn our natural mind into the super-natural mind of Christ. A people of God’s heart’s desire is to spend the rest of their life learning to become just like Jesus. It’s not done easily. It’s the result of deliberately choosing the right moral choices according to His word. The prophet Isaiah said, “as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud, so shall my word be that proceeds out from my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where unto I sent it.”
Jesus said, “If my word abides in you and you abide in me, you shall bear much fruit.” According to Psalm 1, “blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the. Lord and in his law doth he meditates day and night. And he shall be like a tree that is planted by the rivers of (living) waters. His leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
We must give up the egocentric rights to ourselves in order to obey God’s command ... trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men … that we may live to the praise of the glory of His grace!
He gave us His power so that we could attain patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. The patience is in abiding with and within our Lord Jesus Christ. In John 15: 5 Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.”
The devil attacks men and women of God so that they will forget the reason for their calling. To make it as God’s man, we must spend time in His presence and in His word. To hunger and thirst after righteousness is an acquired taste. According to Proverbs, taste and see that the Lord is good. The prophet said, I found Your words and I did eat them. And they became unto me the joy and rejoicing of my soul. When we deliberately delight ourselves in the Lord, making His desire our desire and his delight our delight, then he will give us the desires of our hearts.
The battlefield is for hearts and minds and it is heavily defended territory. It begins in our own hearts. The spiritual battle is the battle to turn our natural mind into the super-natural mind of Christ. A people of God’s heart’s desire is to spend the rest of their life learning to become just like Jesus. It’s not done easily. It’s the result of deliberately choosing the right moral choices according to His word. The prophet Isaiah said, “as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and waters the earth and makes it bring forth and bud, so shall my word be that proceeds out from my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where unto I sent it.”
Jesus said, “If my word abides in you and you abide in me, you shall bear much fruit.” According to Psalm 1, “blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the. Lord and in his law doth he meditates day and night. And he shall be like a tree that is planted by the rivers of (living) waters. His leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
We must give up the egocentric rights to ourselves in order to obey God’s command ... trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men … that we may live to the praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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