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
Making room for jesus
Posted 05-30-2016 at 04:28 PM by Albert Finch
"But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, shall reward you openly." - Matthew 6:6
We are living in the time of the Laodicean Church, which we are told is "rich and increased with goods" (Revelation 3:17). Therefore, most of us are too busy to spend much time in prayer.
MAKE ROOM
For us to enter our "closet" (set apart place) to pray requires that we actively and determinedly make room, where there is no room. For us to establish a "set apart time and place" for prayer, and then maintain this time for prayer, does not come easily.
Therefore, we must place a high value on the time that we spend alone with the Lord, or it will be overtaken and replaced with activities. This "set apart time to be alone with the Lord" must constantly be contended for.
Our Lord is very sensitive about "room being made" for Him, as, when He was born into this world, there was "no room" in the inn. Thus, when anyone of us actively determines to make room for Him, He quickly notices and responds.
Our Lord, who "sees in secret, will reward us openly." This speaks of His "approbation," or divine favor resting upon us – all that we are, and do.
HIS DIVINE FAVOR
The effort that we take to make "room" for Him, and then spend time with Him alone, is the key to His approbation (divine favor), resting upon our spiritual life experience.
"Your Father which is in secret... shall reward you openly." Comparing Isaiah 50:4 with Mark 1:35 reveals to us that Jesus began each day in prayer alone with His Father:
"The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakens morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as the learned." - Isaiah 50:4
"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He (Jesus) went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." - Mark 1:35
After this "set apart time," when Jesus ministered, the favor of His Father resting upon Him was evident.
"The officers answered, 'Never man spoke like this man.'" - John 7:46
"And they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes." - Mark 1:22
At the end of time spent alone with Jesus, we may or may not feel spiritually regenerated, but later, we will notice that everything is going better than we had expected, or deserved.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
We are living in the time of the Laodicean Church, which we are told is "rich and increased with goods" (Revelation 3:17). Therefore, most of us are too busy to spend much time in prayer.
MAKE ROOM
For us to enter our "closet" (set apart place) to pray requires that we actively and determinedly make room, where there is no room. For us to establish a "set apart time and place" for prayer, and then maintain this time for prayer, does not come easily.
Therefore, we must place a high value on the time that we spend alone with the Lord, or it will be overtaken and replaced with activities. This "set apart time to be alone with the Lord" must constantly be contended for.
Our Lord is very sensitive about "room being made" for Him, as, when He was born into this world, there was "no room" in the inn. Thus, when anyone of us actively determines to make room for Him, He quickly notices and responds.
Our Lord, who "sees in secret, will reward us openly." This speaks of His "approbation," or divine favor resting upon us – all that we are, and do.
HIS DIVINE FAVOR
The effort that we take to make "room" for Him, and then spend time with Him alone, is the key to His approbation (divine favor), resting upon our spiritual life experience.
"Your Father which is in secret... shall reward you openly." Comparing Isaiah 50:4 with Mark 1:35 reveals to us that Jesus began each day in prayer alone with His Father:
"The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakens morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as the learned." - Isaiah 50:4
"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He (Jesus) went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." - Mark 1:35
After this "set apart time," when Jesus ministered, the favor of His Father resting upon Him was evident.
"The officers answered, 'Never man spoke like this man.'" - John 7:46
"And they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes." - Mark 1:22
At the end of time spent alone with Jesus, we may or may not feel spiritually regenerated, but later, we will notice that everything is going better than we had expected, or deserved.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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