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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
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October 12, 2023 – Exhortation

Posted 10-11-2023 at 10:45 PM by Albert Finch


Just as Jeremiah was given the ability to "see" his new season (see Jeremiah 1:4-12), you are a present-day Jeremiah – having your eyes opened to understand and know all that God has formed for you (your Christ calling and destiny) has been preserved. No enemy will be able to steal your future unless you let him! The devil cannot take away what God has promised you unless you allow him entrance.

It is your season to be as Jeremiah and allow God to touch your mouth so that you are empowered to see and confess all that Heaven says about your role in advancing God's Kingdom in the earth.

Jeremiah could not see his future until God "touched his mouth." The word "touched" is the Greek word naga and implies that God struck the unbelief that had held Jeremiah's faith captive. The word also implies a "violent act -- God did a violent act against Jeremiah's unbelief in his ability. God, Himself, went to battle against Jeremiah's mindsets concerning his capacity to be used by God (see Jeremiah 1:1-12).

Under the new covenant, you do a violent act against (by relentlessly asking, seeking, and knocking) your inability to be used by God by coming to understand your Christ identity (through affirming and meditating on the scriptures in Paul's epistles) as a born-again believer.

All you have to do is draw near. Christ established your victory at the Cross. Yes, the finished work at the Cross promises you a new season in your Christ calling. Jeremiah was able to "see" an almond branch budding. The almond branch is the first branch to bloom in a new season -- "SEE your new season!"

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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