Forget
About His Will for Your Life!
Creative thoughts come from The Creator.
When the Spirit leads you to communicate His Will to someone, don’t be ashamed
of your attempt. Pray for humility, guidance, and how you might honor God (and
not yourself) as you express your faith to someone else. Pray for wisdom to
approach someone who needs the Light. We
use to think we had to give the entire plan of salvation before we would even
speak to someone. This is simply not true. Praising God and sharing faith is
the “seed” we are to sow. We
sow, perhaps someone else will water, but the Lord will always give
the increase because His Word will not return to Him void. (Isaiah 55:11 )
Each person called by God in Biblical accounts was a BUSY person.
None were just idly thinking of what they should do….they were BUSY. God
called Moses when he was tending sheep, the apostles when they were fishing, Abraham
when he was overseeing his household. God changed the direction of history
because busy people dropped what they were doing and followed His calling.
Never think that being “too busy” will be an excuse to God for not dropping
everything to follow where He leads.
COMMITMENT
TO A LIFE OF WALKING BY THE SPIRIT
We don’t need to see the entire plan
before we obey The Lord. Very few Biblical heroes were given a “life plan”
before they walked in step with the Spirit. If we know the entire way, then we
don’t check in with the map very often. God wants us to dependent on Him. He wants
us to check in with Him often. He wants to be involved moment by moment directing our path and
for us to be solely dependent on Him always. A “right now” walk with the Lord keeps us
in tune with the Spirit. “One step at a time, dear Savior” is the exact
relationship God wants us to hold on to. It keeps us humble just as a little child,
wholly dependent upon our God and His power. This is the definition of Kingdom
Living. God despises the opposite relationship: “your lips honor me, but
your hearts are far from me”.
As we grow in the Spirit we will
learn to have a continual spiritual conversation with our God, to pray without
ceasing, to meditate on His Words. We will talk, question, think, and be
enlightened by our intimate conversations through the Spirit. These are the
conversations that help to transform us, change us, mold us, and which circumcise our
hearts to become more sensitive to His Will. We are to always carry the death of our
own fleshly desires as Christ bore His own cross. But as Americans we are not
use to putting to death the desires of the flesh. We have been propagandized to
make sure we have the very best that we can afford….and even that which we cannot afford….
A
SPIRIT WALK IS SACRIFICIAL
A Spirit walk is a sacrificial walk
and this has almost become alien to us with all our freedoms and funds. Luke
12:42-48 directly condemns the steward servant who hordes his resources. We
must learn to think of others more highly than ourselves (Philippians 2:3) and curb
our selfish mindsets of “me and mine.” A Spirit walk does not attempt to blend
a little Jesus with a lot of worldly pursuits. It is a narrow road and few
there be that even desire it.
YOUR
SPIRIT WALK IS UNIQUE
A Spirit walk may require us to give up
things that are not sinful to others, but are taking up too much of our time
and consideration thus becoming sinful to us. A Spirit walk is personal. When
we make plans and dream dreams and then go to God to ask Him to make them
happen, we have missed the entire point. God is not a Disneyland Dad. His
purpose is not to fulfill our every wish. Likewise, as we are prompted by “a
spirit”, we should take time to mediate, reflect, and test the spirit by
examining Scripture to be sure it is Holy. God will open doors for you but He wants you
to stay in close relationship with Him as you go through those doors. No one
else can take our place in the Body of Christ. WE are uniquely needed to
fulfill our role in the Church.
No one else will see the
opportunities we see today, stand next to the person we are standing next to,
or meet a new face in a new place. Francis Chan shared how he approached a
stranger to say, “God loves you” and still with fear and trepidation. What he
did not say was that each time we overcome the impulse NOT to approach others;
we begin to form a habit that is more and more Christ-like. May we always keep our eyes and
hearts open for unique opportunities to
sow seed for the Kingdom of God.
YOUR
SPIRIT WALK IS A LIFE-LONG PROCESS
We never really complete the walk
with the Spirit. We never “arrive” until we see the “unveiled” face of God. Our
Lord wants us in this relationship for the “long haul”. His plan to send His
son and then His Spirit was to develop a relationship that is always growing
and maturing. This is His design to share His glory to a broken world. God’s work in us is accomplished by His own
power. “Well done thou good and faithful servant” is a phrase that will only be
spoken to those who are true servant/slaves of Jesus Christ as shown by their
sacrificial life-styles and humble walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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