10/21/2019
This is a great scripture for being
“Sold Out For God”
‘All the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life…so that I could embrace Christ.’
Phil 3:8-9 MSG👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
Before you discover your God given purpose in life, you will often experience a series of adversities that cause you to relinquish what’s temporal and grasp what’s eternal. For Paul it meant the loss of every earthly possession. For others it can mean the heat of battle in a divorce court, or the loss of a loved one or being diagnosed with a severe illness.
Look at Job; his home was a shambles, his marriage seemed a joke and his children were all dead. That’s when he discovered you can be stripped of the temporal but not of the eternal; stripped of your wealth, friends and fame, but not of your character and your faith in God. Those things survive the stripping of life. The Bible says, ‘Then Job…fell down upon the ground, and worshipped’ (Job 1:20 KJV).
You see, true worship is born in the fire of sacrifice. When you can lay upon the altar something you thought you had to have because you realise it was God’s all along – that’s worship. Look at Abraham’s altar. God didn’t want the slain body of Isaac; He wanted to know if there was anything Abraham loved more than Him.
That is the place when you fall on your knees and pray: ‘Lord, here are my grudges and unforgiveness, my need to impress others, my time, my talent and my wealth and anything else that I am wrapped up in that hinders me from being completely Yours. You will never have to take these things from me, for I gladly give them all to You so that I can be all that You want me to be.’ Can you pray that prayer today? It’s not easy, but it will change your life for ever.
Have a AWSOME Monday!!!! I LOVE ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!!! -Gabe
