THE DYNAMIC POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR LIFE IN CHRIST
SCRIPTURES
Phil 4:13 (KJV) "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
2 Cor 3:5 (KJV) "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;"
2 Cor 3:6 (KJV) "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
THE BIBLE PLACES THE BELIEVER IN A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP POSITION WITH GOD. HE IS A SON OF GOD; AN HEIR OF GOD; A JOINT HEIR WITH JESUS CHRIST; A MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST.
HE HAS BEEN: RECEIVED (FORGIVEN)
REDEEMED (SAVED)
REFINED (SANCTIFIED)
REVOLUTIONIZED (FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT)
HE HAS BECOME A "NEW CREATION" IN CHRIST JESUS....NEW LIFE; NEW PURPOSE; NEW NAME; NEW DESTINATION!
FOUR (4) IMPORTANT FAITH FACTS TO REMEMBER
1. THE LORD HAS SENT (COMMISSIONED) YOU!
2. THE LORD HAS A WORK (POSITIONS) FOR YOU!
3. THE LORD IS WITH (ACCOMPANIES) YOU!
4. THE LORD ANOINTS YOU!
YOU CAN BECOME ALL GOD WANTS YOU TO BE THROUGH COMPLETE SURRENDER TO HIS WILL. THE LORD DOES NOT MAKE YOU OBEY HIM....HE COMMANDS BUT DOES NOT FORCE OR BEG YOU TO SURRENDER.
YOU CAN HAVE:
A POWERFUL OR A POWERLESS LIFE
A SELFLESS OR A SELFISH LIFE
A COURAGEOUS OR A COWARDLY LIFE
A FULL OR AN EMPTY LIFE
AN ANOINTED OR A DEAD LIFE
IN THE 23RD CHAPTER OF MATTHEW THE STINGING REBUKE OF THE LORD TO THE PHARISEES IS RECORDED.
SCRIPTURE.. Mat 23:23 (KJV) "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
Mat 23:24 (KJV) "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
Mat 23:25 (KJV) "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess."
Mat 23:26 (KJV) "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."
Mat 23:27 (KJV) "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Mat 23:28 (KJV) "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
Mat 23:29 (KJV) "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,"
Mat 23:30 (KJV) "And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets."
THEIR RELIGIOUS POMPOSITY; THEIR SELF-RIGHTEOUS ATTITUDE; THEIR EGOTISM AND BIGOTRY KEPT THEM FROM SURRENDERING TO THE LORD JESUS.
YOU MUST FIGHT THE SPIRIT OF IDLENESS AND LAZINESS... YOU MUST DESTROY THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES WHICH SMOTHER YOU... YOU MUST REFUSE TO CHANT THE DEVIL'S MELODY...
YOU MUST REJECT ANTI-CHRIST DOCTRINES...YOU MUST RUN AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS...SEEK THE TRUTH...PURIFY YOURSELF FROM THE FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH.YOU MUST GET SERIOUS ABOUT GOD...AND JESUS...AND THE HOLY SPIRIT...AND THE BIBLE...AND PRAYER...AND THE CHURCH...AND THE UNSAVED...AND YOUR FAMILY...AND YOUR OWN LIFE.
YOU MUST SURRENDER TO HIM. HE HAS A LIFE OF SPIRITUAL VICTORY FOR YOU.
THERE ARE NO UNIMPORTANT CHILDREN OF GOD
**DIFFERENT CAPABILITIES
**VARIOUS MINISTRIES
**LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING
**DEGREES OF VICTORY
BUT ALL ARE IMPORTANT!
YOUR.....PRAYING...BELIEVING...TESTIMONY...SINGING...TEACHING... WITNESSING...PREACHING...AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU DO FOR GOD...
ARE TOOLS WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT USES TO HELP BUILD THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND YOUR PLACE IN IT.
GOD CHOSE YOU AND ME TO BE PARTNERS WITH HIM. "I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME."