My purpose here is to glorify God by helping you to discover yourself, build you, train and impact you with the necessary information that will change your life, finances, career, relationships, business, ministry and family; to make of you a success before God and man through proven Biblical truths, prayers and life principles.
I believe you are enjoying and learning from this series of God's true plan for your ministry?
Let us go on with series please:
You must devote Yourself to Pleasing God
A decision
for total dedication
includes a determination to
please God. Go
through the New Testament and
learn those things
that bring Him pleasure. For instance, But without
faith it is impossible to please him
(Heb. 11:6). We
must walk by
faith in order to please God.
The Father God is not delighted when we are in the flesh. We must be spiritually minded (Rom.8:1-8).
God receives
no enjoyment out
of our being defeated. Defeated
Christians do not
delight their heavenly Father.
He was grieved
at the children
of Israel because they
were overcome in
the wilderness.
For some, when
they had heard,
did provoke: howbeit not
all that came
out of Egypt
by Moses. But
with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness?
(Heb. 3:16,17). Our not walking in
victory is just
as Offensive to Him.
The decision
to please the
Father must include
the decision to live
in victory. The
victory which overcomes the
world is faith
(1 John 5:4).
God intends for you to use your faith for every endeavor in life. You should bat
your eyes by
faith! The just
shall live by faith (Rom.1:17).
In addition
to faith, you
must also live
and walk in the love of God. Getting strife out of
your life is part of yourdedication to God. That, my friend, requires a firm
Quality decision of
the highest order.
In my
own ministry at
times, I know
I must appear two-faced to
those who work
around me. I
demand excellence. Yet on
the other hand,
I will be
supportive of a person
who is falling
far short of
perfection in his work.
Because of my
commitment to walk
in the love of God,
I'll stay with him and stand
by him.
I have had people ask me why I did not dismiss someone from my staff because
of their incompetence. I
am simply not that type. As long as a person is
making every effort to succeed, I
will work with him to see that
he attains the accuracy and
perfection he is
capable of with
God's help.
But there
is one thing
which we do
not allow in our
ministry. If a
person causes strife,
he'll have to
work someplace else. We absolutely will
not tolerate strife because it is so destructive.
Notice again
2 Timothy 2:21, If
a man therefore purges
himself from these....
What are the
"these" to which Paul
refers? Verses 22-24
tell us, Flee
also youthful lusts: but
follow righteousness, faith,
charity (love), peace, with
them that call
on the Lord
out of a pure heart.
But foolish and
unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do gender strafes.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive.
God will keep you
from all foolishness and help you in embracing His true call upon your life and ministry in Jesus name!
Thanks,
Join me again
tomorrow for the continuation
John Olanrewaju
Pastor, Author, Poet, Creativity, Business, Relationship,
Career & Life Coach
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God bless you!
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