Anybody that God has ever used was already busy or God would have never called them
If you want to get something done find a busy person, and it will get done.
The idle never have time to do anything.
When God called :
Moses tending his herds
Gideon was busy thrashing wheat by the wine press
Saul looking for the lost beast
David was busy watching his father’s sheep
Elisha was busy plowing w/12 oxen
Nemiah was busy bearing the kings wine cup
Peter and Andrew were busy casting a net into the sea
James and john were busy mending their nets
Mathew was busy collecting taxes
Saul was busy persecuting the church
Only thing these men had in common was they were busy when God called them.
There is no room in Gods work for lazy people.
Faithful
Moses- “faithful in all my house” Num.12:7
Ballams donkey “Haven’t I carried you faithfully”
• God never used them if first they hadn’t been faithful”
God looking for faithful men
• 1 Cor. 4:2 “required in stewards that a man be found faithful”
• 2 Tim 2:2 “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to Faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• 1 Cor. 4:17 “for this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son,
and faithful in the lord
• 1 Tim 1:12 “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;”
o Number 1 requirement is faithfulness
o “he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much”
o “ his Lord said unto him, well done good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things”
“If you want more or to do more, be faithful with what you’ve gotten”
“What so ever your hands find to do, do with all your heart”
Busy, faithful men and woman are what God is looking for.
LM
Monday, September 3, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
2 Corinthians 4:7
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
We must always model that we are flesh, and not excellent, least those that follow worship us and not the creator.
Sadly too many of us are trying to convince those who follow that it is us who are excellent and not God.
We are earth, He is excellent.
LM
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
We must always model that we are flesh, and not excellent, least those that follow worship us and not the creator.
Sadly too many of us are trying to convince those who follow that it is us who are excellent and not God.
We are earth, He is excellent.
LM
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The church
The church has always been under attack. So, when people criticize it, or you see its short comings, don’t panic.
That the church has survived the attacks from its enemies and the failings of its own members for two thousand years and is still going strong stands as a remarkable testimony of God’s plan for her.
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That the church has survived the attacks from its enemies and the failings of its own members for two thousand years and is still going strong stands as a remarkable testimony of God’s plan for her.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
The father and the brother
The father and the brother
Luke 15:20-30
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
The first action of the father once he was done embracing his lost son, was to cover his nakedness. The father wanted to remove all trace of where he had been and what he had done.
The brother wanted everyone to know where his brother had been, and began to enumerate the many failures of his brother.
The heart of a father is completely different from that of a brother.
A father covers a transgression, a brother feels the need to broadcast it.
A father went running to make the reunion happen, as quick as possible. The brother sat a long way off and refused to make even one step towards reconciliation.
Don't tell me your a "Father in the gospel", when all your actions are that of the brother.
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Luke 15:20-30
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
The first action of the father once he was done embracing his lost son, was to cover his nakedness. The father wanted to remove all trace of where he had been and what he had done.
The brother wanted everyone to know where his brother had been, and began to enumerate the many failures of his brother.
The heart of a father is completely different from that of a brother.
A father covers a transgression, a brother feels the need to broadcast it.
A father went running to make the reunion happen, as quick as possible. The brother sat a long way off and refused to make even one step towards reconciliation.
Don't tell me your a "Father in the gospel", when all your actions are that of the brother.
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