Today was the perfect day for this reading. I read today's reading but at times, some things don't seem to stick as well. It's like God wanted today's reading to stick out more to others while November 10th's sticks more with me today. Perhaps September 2nd's reading will reach my heart on November 10th! :)
I really needed this!
"November 10, 2008
Fellowship in the Gospel
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. . . fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ . . . —1 Thessalonians 3:2
After sanctification, it is difficult to state what your purpose in life is, because God has moved you into His purpose through the Holy Spirit. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself, thinking, "God has called me for this and for that," you barricade God from using you. As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God’s interests. This can only be accomplished by giving up all of your personal plans once and for all, and by allowing God to take you directly into His purpose for the world. Your understanding of your ways must also be surrendered, because they are now the ways of the Lord.
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. I should never say, "Lord, this causes me such heartache." To talk that way makes me a stumbling block. When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. Doing this creates for me my own cozy "world within the world," and God will not be allowed to move me from it because of my fear of being "frost-bitten.""
+ <- Ava typed that plus sign. I couldn't bring myself to delete it.
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I know how amazing it can be when God puts exactly what you need for that time in front of you. A few weeks ago something was going on (I don't remember what it was now, but at the time it seemed like a big deal.) and when I went to bed I opened my Bible and started reading exactly what I needed. I am pretty sure I was reading just where the marker was (I usually read straight through) but it was perfect timing.
During Pastor Townsend's sermon Sunday he talked about "God's Power, God's Will, and God's Timing." He was very interesting. I will have to tell you more about it sometime.
Love you!
WOW! WOW! WOW! How exciting it is to know that you get it! That was a wonderful testimony of what this life is about and it is absolutely not about us but so many people make it about themselves. Not to say that I "never" do...I am a sinner who battles my flesh. But the richness of our faith is understanding that we are simply vehilces being driven by a Holy God. How wonderful to be one of His children. I'm so glad I can rest in the fact that you, my dear daughter, belong to Him too! May He continue to grow you, stretch you, and more than anything else, use you! I love you!
Hi dearie....just a loving connection, letting you know, granny understands about new starts, placing all the sinful ways of the flesh behind us and making us pure, cleansing ourselves for our Heavenly Father and being the believer, He wants us to be and sharing with others our Godly ways for Him. You have become a beautiful Christian woman.
I love you....and Ava too! Granny
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