How inconvenient am I willing to go?

God has called me to be a Preacher of the Gospel. He has chosen me "to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant." (Jeremiah. 1:10) He has sent me into all the world to be a Preach (Mark 16:15). He has anointed me with the Holy Ghost & Power to go BE a witness unto him (Acts 1:8). It's a hard ministry. It is the only thing in this life I have ever been sure of: God has a calling on my life and He has place the same desire in my heart. I just read a quote by Damon Thompson from The Ramp that says, "Prophetic fulfillment requires an inconvenient way of life." That is a good question. How inconvenient am I willing for life to be to allow God's calling on my life to be fulfilled? I think within the answer to that question may lie the extent of how much God will use me to bring the Gospel to the poor, healing to the broken hearted, deliverance to the captives, sight to the blind, and liberty to them that are oppressed (Luke 4:18). My prayer: no limits, I simply say yes Lord.

The Motions - Matthew West

"I don't want to go through the motions, I don't want to spend one more day...don't want to go through my whole life asking, 'what if I had given everything?'"

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Tonight's Devotional

Ah but that faith, that mustard seed that has been planted in this broken ground is taking root and mountains must move and be cast into the sea. They must become plains (Zechariah 4:6-7). But not by my might, nor my power, but by the Holy Spirit within me.

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This Evening's Meditation C. H. Spurgeon "I will make thy windows of agates."—Isaiah 54:12. HE church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by heavenly power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must not be dark, for the Israelites had light in their dwellings; there must therefore be windows to let the light in and to allow the inhabitants to gaze abroad. These windows are precious as agates: the ways in which the church beholds her Lord and heaven, and spiritual truth in general, are to be had in the highest esteem. Agates are not the most transparent of gems, they are but semi-pellucid at the best: "Our knowledge of that life is small, Our eye of faith is dim." Faith is one of these precious agate windows, but alas! it is often so misty and beclouded, that we see but darkly, and mistake much that we do see. Yet if we cannot gaze through windows of diamonds and know even as we are known, it is a glorious thing to behold the altogether lovely One, even though the glass be hazy as the agate. Experience is another of these dim but precious windows, yielding to us a subdued religious light, in which we see the sufferings of the Man of Sorrows, through our own afflictions. Our weak eyes could not endure windows of transparent glass to let in the Master's glory, but when they are dimmed with weeping, the beams of the Sun of Righteousness are tempered, and shine through the windows of agate with a soft radiance inexpressibly soothing to tempted souls. Sanctification, as it conforms us to our Lord, is another agate window. Only as we become heavenly can we comprehend heavenly things. The pure in heart see a pure God. Those who are like Jesus see Him as He is. Because we are so little like Him, the window is but agate; because we are somewhat like Him, it is agate. We thank God for what we have, and long for more. When shall we see God and Jesus, and heaven and truth, face to face? Read more at www.spurgeon.org

 

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This is some good teaching on the return of Christ from Evangelist Perry Stone @perrystonevoe..."The Rebirth of Maranatha"...deep!

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Charles Spurgeon Devotional

I actually read this devo this morning. Conversation I had later confirmed that this is a Word I need. Even if for a season, this is a truth I need to learn & apply.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010 This Evening's Meditation C. H. Spurgeon "Ye serve the Lord Christ."—Colossians 3:24. O what choice order of officials was this word spoken? To kings who proudly boast a right divine? Ah, no! too often do they serve themselves or Satan, and forget the God whose sufferance permits them to wear their mimic majesty for their little hour. Speaks then the apostle to those so-called "right reverend fathers in God," the bishops, or "the venerable the archdeacons"? No, indeed, Paul knew nothing of these mere inventions of man. Not even to pastors and teachers, or to the wealthy and esteemed among believers, was this word spoken, but to servants, ay, and to slaves. Among the toiling multitudes, the journeymen, the day labourers, the domestic servants, the drudges of the kitchen, the apostle found, as we find still, some of the Lord's chosen, and to them he says, "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ." This saying ennobles the weary routine of earthly employments, and sheds a halo around the most humble occupations. To wash feet may be servile, but to wash His feet is royal work. To unloose the shoe-latchet is poor employ, but to unloose the great Master's shoe is a princely privilege. The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! Then "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and its golden candlestick. "Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see; And what I do in anything to do it as to Thee. All may of Thee partake, nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, for Thy sake, will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine. Read more at www.spurgeon.org

 

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Very interesting idea. I would have to see it to see how useful it really is & I haven't but still a very clever use of today's technology to try to combine the new means with the old message. http://www.faithnews.cc/2010/12/10/revolutionary-new-jesus-iphone-in-time-for-christmas/ http://amplify.com/u/i6nh

Get Turned upside down - Damon Thompson at Abbas' House Chattanooga, TN

This Video from Damon Thompson Ministries sums up what it is going to take pretty well: