Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
Stoking Your Passion
Posted 10-31-2023 at 12:36 PM by Albert Finch
When you become hungry for God, activities that used to comfort and feed you lose their attraction. Unhealthy substitutes no longer satisfy you as they once did. You are being drawn by the Holy Spirit to discover that Jesus is your source, your food, your delight, your passion, for it's time to make Him your passion!
We do not live as the spiritually blind do – we come to understand our Christ identity, as one who is born again in Christ Jesus. We want the glory of Christ to shine on us ever brighter, illuminating greater knowledge and greater understanding of His purpose for our life. God’s desire is to fill our hungry hearts so that we may do exceedingly and abundantly above what we can think or ask.
One sign of hunger for God is that you become aware you have lost intensity in your faith. You may be able to look back and see a past time in which you were more passionately in love with God than you are right now. Now, you miss the fire and zeal you once had. This is what happened to the church of Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). Once upon a time, their love for Jesus had been their supreme focus, but they had lost their appetite. They had gone off the ecstasy and into the mind-numbing world of sloth because they had not come to understand their Christ calling and how to bear fruit that remains for His Kingdom.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
We do not live as the spiritually blind do – we come to understand our Christ identity, as one who is born again in Christ Jesus. We want the glory of Christ to shine on us ever brighter, illuminating greater knowledge and greater understanding of His purpose for our life. God’s desire is to fill our hungry hearts so that we may do exceedingly and abundantly above what we can think or ask.
One sign of hunger for God is that you become aware you have lost intensity in your faith. You may be able to look back and see a past time in which you were more passionately in love with God than you are right now. Now, you miss the fire and zeal you once had. This is what happened to the church of Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). Once upon a time, their love for Jesus had been their supreme focus, but they had lost their appetite. They had gone off the ecstasy and into the mind-numbing world of sloth because they had not come to understand their Christ calling and how to bear fruit that remains for His Kingdom.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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