Sunday, January 20, 2008

Eternal Purpose...

“...this was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness, and confidence…” - Ephesians 3:11-12

I am completely taking this out of context, I know that, but as I meditated on this verse, something just got me excited with the following idea: We have to pray and seek God about our “eternal purpose.” We can spend our lives and time doing 10 spiritual things that we submit to God...and we may tend to get frustrated and mad about them, or we may do well and flourish, but never feel a peace and contentment about life….we spend it always wondering? Yet if we seek God and can get His 1 eternal purpose straight from Him - we can walk in “boldness” and “confidence never wondering if it is the right thing or if we should be doing something else. I encourage you, that if your life seems like you are doing way to much or not enough, etc...just stop! Take it all in your hands and lay it at the feet of Jesus. Start fresh...ask Him to reveal your “eternal purpose.” Don’t give him any of your thoughts or ideas about what would be good. Get it straight from Him...it will bring you to such a place of peace and you will be able to live out each day in “boldness and confidence” that has come straight from our Lord…

Friday, January 18, 2008

My True Vision?

Mark 16:15 - "...And then he told them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere..."

The main vision and overall true vision of every Christian is - preparing people to stand before Jesus – those perishing and those being saved...But today I, standing with the Fear of the Lord all over me and being convicted to the core am clearly seeing that so often in my life, I am pursuing my vision in the name of Jesus, but in reality I am really pursuing myself!

We are aiming to help people throughout the world to open there eyes to the Lordship of Jesus in the midst of where they are. The vision of the Kingdom of God is not church planting, or conferences, or missions, or converting people to our stream of denomination. The vision of God's kingdom is preparing people to stand before Jesus. We are wanting their hearts to be pure and undefiled before him; submitted to His Lordship...

Before all of you my friends, I repent to the King of the Universe for chasing my vision and tagging His name to it. My heart is freshly visioned to prepare all peoples in any way God leads, to stand before Jesus....