Accomplishment of Gods will in your life...
PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:28 am
Finish the work
St. John 17: 4
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Philippians 3: 12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
There is a work, a ministry, a key role in someone’s life that we all have to fulfill. There's a little boy that needs a good role model so he can see that all men aren’t heartless, they don't all sleep around and leave their children. A little girl that needs to see that she doesn't have to be apart of the number of pregnant teens, and that she herself is a gift from God (psalm 127: 3). There's such a need for the people of God to be taught, to help prevent them from perishing for lack of knowledge.
The Spirit has given to every man to profit withal (1 Corinth 12: 7), we all have a spiritual gift to carry out the work that God has given us to do. At times though we have to press, press through principalities that would prevent us from fulfilling our mission, press through opposition from the world outside, opposition from our pears and sometimes friends and family (St. John 7:5 ), and opposition from inside our own bodies and past lives.
We have to deny our selves to get where God truly wants us to be with him, and to do all the things he wants us to do. Initially we do want to do the work, "I delight in the law of God after the inward man" (Rom 7), but the flesh doesn't want us to go there because it would be totally consumed. We don't like to feel uncomfortable, we don't like to be too hot or too cold, we don't want to be beaten, cursed at, and opposed, so we stay on the skirts of Gods presence where we could still satisfy some of our own desires. but in the depths of Gods presence everything about us is consumed, where Gods desires become our desires (we are one spirit with God- 1corin 6:17), the place where he speaks to us and it's evident because of the shine on our faces, where we have deeper visions, we see greater possibilities, and we know him more intimately.
thou- the work is from God -gavest me- we all have a work to do. Your work isn't another person’s work, he gave you as an individual a work, and even if God does find someone to fill your shoes you’re still accountable for what he wanted you to do, he knows why he chose you. Some of us were given the task of teaching, some preaching, others dancing and mentoring, some were given multiple responsibilities. But what ever God gave you to do it's important that (like our master Jesus) you finish your part in this life. We have people preaching when they should be making dances for God, people singing when they should be teaching, people playing when they should be serious. But in the end God is going to ask, "Did you do what I gave you to do?"
Press, apprehend for what you are apprehend of God
apprehend- 1) to lay hold of a) to lay hold of so as to make one's own, to obtain, attain to, to make one's own, to take into one's self, appropriate
It's yours, it's your calling and ministry, it's the level of your relationship with God, it's what God wants you to know, it's what God wants you to do.
And always remember to give God the glory "-I have glorified thee on the earth-"
St. John 17: 4
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Philippians 3: 12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
There is a work, a ministry, a key role in someone’s life that we all have to fulfill. There's a little boy that needs a good role model so he can see that all men aren’t heartless, they don't all sleep around and leave their children. A little girl that needs to see that she doesn't have to be apart of the number of pregnant teens, and that she herself is a gift from God (psalm 127: 3). There's such a need for the people of God to be taught, to help prevent them from perishing for lack of knowledge.
The Spirit has given to every man to profit withal (1 Corinth 12: 7), we all have a spiritual gift to carry out the work that God has given us to do. At times though we have to press, press through principalities that would prevent us from fulfilling our mission, press through opposition from the world outside, opposition from our pears and sometimes friends and family (St. John 7:5 ), and opposition from inside our own bodies and past lives.
We have to deny our selves to get where God truly wants us to be with him, and to do all the things he wants us to do. Initially we do want to do the work, "I delight in the law of God after the inward man" (Rom 7), but the flesh doesn't want us to go there because it would be totally consumed. We don't like to feel uncomfortable, we don't like to be too hot or too cold, we don't want to be beaten, cursed at, and opposed, so we stay on the skirts of Gods presence where we could still satisfy some of our own desires. but in the depths of Gods presence everything about us is consumed, where Gods desires become our desires (we are one spirit with God- 1corin 6:17), the place where he speaks to us and it's evident because of the shine on our faces, where we have deeper visions, we see greater possibilities, and we know him more intimately.
thou- the work is from God -gavest me- we all have a work to do. Your work isn't another person’s work, he gave you as an individual a work, and even if God does find someone to fill your shoes you’re still accountable for what he wanted you to do, he knows why he chose you. Some of us were given the task of teaching, some preaching, others dancing and mentoring, some were given multiple responsibilities. But what ever God gave you to do it's important that (like our master Jesus) you finish your part in this life. We have people preaching when they should be making dances for God, people singing when they should be teaching, people playing when they should be serious. But in the end God is going to ask, "Did you do what I gave you to do?"
Press, apprehend for what you are apprehend of God
apprehend- 1) to lay hold of a) to lay hold of so as to make one's own, to obtain, attain to, to make one's own, to take into one's self, appropriate
It's yours, it's your calling and ministry, it's the level of your relationship with God, it's what God wants you to know, it's what God wants you to do.
And always remember to give God the glory "-I have glorified thee on the earth-"