WE CONTINUE THE JOURNEY
Greetings in Jesus name:
We seem to always be frightened when it comes to the unknown things we have to deal with in life. I think it is important to travel with someone who has been there before you and who may have a greater perspective on the problems that you may face than you do.
When I speak about seeking after God in prayer I am speaking about making you mind up to find Him in your life. Many people take a stab at finding God and then after about five minutes they give up saying or He just does not care because He isn't there when I call His name. Remember that God is not a tool that you use and control; but the creator of all life, and if we are to give Him a reason to respond to you at all show Him that your heart really wants to make contact. He has told us already that we must seek after Him with our whole heart, mind and strength in order to find Him...this is not a game that He plays with us, but an earnest relationship that God seeks from us. The difference is that He does not require a formal or pompous approach to seeking Him, but a very heart felt need within us to make that contact. He asks us to seek after with every fiber of who we are because He wants a true relationship. God already knows that we are too weak to sustain such a thing on our own, and that is why He has said " If you seek me with all of your heart, mind, and strength...I will add to you all of the things that you need".
Putting all of our efforts and concentration into finding , and then developing a about our own future.relationship with is is not easy. In fact it may well be one of the most difficult things you have ever done. The reason is that God ...unlike others you may have had a relationship with is always there. When we strike an understanding with others there is always a strong chance that we may find at sometime they may fail in that bargain made giving us a chance to have leverage when ever we fail to hold up our part...but that isn't true with God. You see not only does God never go away; He never fails to keep His word given to us. He also expects us to keep our word to Him which ends up being a problem in that it is our habit to not keep our word the more we deal with and live in this world. That is one of the several reasons that God is more interested in our relationship with Him being had outside of the influences of this world. In fact He asks us to begin to die to those influences when we begin our journey with Him. We spoke of changes in our life when we started this week, and one of the great changes in our lives will be the change that God will make in the ways we think and feel about life, and about our own future.
At the Gathering we are trying a different kind of thing in our worship of God from any normal church...we are making things very simple, and yet very straight forward. We are concentrating on growing Christians rather than trying to grow a church. That means that you will find a more concentrated effort on what we as individuals need in our personal relationship with God than having a goal to develop a church philosophy, and bring people into a service. We are trying to teach people how to minister to the people whom God's Spirit brings and draws into each service rather than to appeal to everyone on the streets who may or may not care. We are beginning to realize that our real mission is to love one another as He has loved us...that makes us a living example to the community of how God's love works. It also makes for a different kind of mind set about our relationship with Him. We will talk more later...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
We seem to always be frightened when it comes to the unknown things we have to deal with in life. I think it is important to travel with someone who has been there before you and who may have a greater perspective on the problems that you may face than you do.
When I speak about seeking after God in prayer I am speaking about making you mind up to find Him in your life. Many people take a stab at finding God and then after about five minutes they give up saying or He just does not care because He isn't there when I call His name. Remember that God is not a tool that you use and control; but the creator of all life, and if we are to give Him a reason to respond to you at all show Him that your heart really wants to make contact. He has told us already that we must seek after Him with our whole heart, mind and strength in order to find Him...this is not a game that He plays with us, but an earnest relationship that God seeks from us. The difference is that He does not require a formal or pompous approach to seeking Him, but a very heart felt need within us to make that contact. He asks us to seek after with every fiber of who we are because He wants a true relationship. God already knows that we are too weak to sustain such a thing on our own, and that is why He has said " If you seek me with all of your heart, mind, and strength...I will add to you all of the things that you need".
Putting all of our efforts and concentration into finding , and then developing a about our own future.relationship with is is not easy. In fact it may well be one of the most difficult things you have ever done. The reason is that God ...unlike others you may have had a relationship with is always there. When we strike an understanding with others there is always a strong chance that we may find at sometime they may fail in that bargain made giving us a chance to have leverage when ever we fail to hold up our part...but that isn't true with God. You see not only does God never go away; He never fails to keep His word given to us. He also expects us to keep our word to Him which ends up being a problem in that it is our habit to not keep our word the more we deal with and live in this world. That is one of the several reasons that God is more interested in our relationship with Him being had outside of the influences of this world. In fact He asks us to begin to die to those influences when we begin our journey with Him. We spoke of changes in our life when we started this week, and one of the great changes in our lives will be the change that God will make in the ways we think and feel about life, and about our own future.
At the Gathering we are trying a different kind of thing in our worship of God from any normal church...we are making things very simple, and yet very straight forward. We are concentrating on growing Christians rather than trying to grow a church. That means that you will find a more concentrated effort on what we as individuals need in our personal relationship with God than having a goal to develop a church philosophy, and bring people into a service. We are trying to teach people how to minister to the people whom God's Spirit brings and draws into each service rather than to appeal to everyone on the streets who may or may not care. We are beginning to realize that our real mission is to love one another as He has loved us...that makes us a living example to the community of how God's love works. It also makes for a different kind of mind set about our relationship with Him. We will talk more later...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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