•(Matt 17;1-13,GNB) ------------------------------ •Why is it Important for me to respond when God speaks to me? •What does His speaking tell me about His timing? ---------------------------------------------- My Message for (today),To You.. God Develops Character To Match The Assignment. ---------------------------------------------- When God speaking with the purpose of. revealing an assignment to you,you need to trust what God is doing. He knows exactly what He is doing in and through your life. Dont rule things out that God may be saying because they dont match what you want to hear. ------------------------------- When God called Abram,He said,I will bless you and make your name great(Gen.12;2). That means:I will develop your character to match your assignment.Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us dont want to give attention to our character;we just want the big assignment from God. (Just an Example of a Pastor), Suppose a pastor is waiting for a big Church to call him to be pastor. Then a small Church calls and says,Will you come and be bivocational and help us out here on the west side, (what ever Country it may be). Well,no,the prospective pastor responds. He thinks,I am here waiting for God to give me an assignment. I have done so much training,I cant waste my life by working a secular job when I can serve a Church full-time. I think that I deserve something much more significant than that. •(Ive paid my dues). •Do you see how self-centered that viewpoint is? •Human reasoning will not give you Gods perspective. If you cant be faithful in little,God will not give you the(Larger assignment). •He may want to adjust your life and character in smaller assignments in order to prepare you for the larger ones. •Thats is where God starts to work. When you make the adjustment and start to obey Him,you come to know Him by (experience). •This is the goal of Gods activity in your life-that you come to know Him. Do you want to experience God mightily working in your life and through your life? Then adjust your life to God in the kind of relationship where you follow Him where He leads you-even if the assignment seems to be small or insignificant. Wouldnt you rather hear:Well done,good and faithful servant;you were fathful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord(Matt.25:21)? Now,you. May ask,Do I automatically assume that a request like the pastor receive to the (west side of the Country)is from God because it is a small assignment? (NO).Whether the assignment is large or small in your eyes,you will still have to find out (whether it is from God or not). However,you always need to let God tell you that. Do not rule out an assignment,large or small,on the basis of your own preconceived ideas. (Remember)-you will know through the relationship with God. Dont try to bypass the relationship. I have known people who wouldnt interrupt a fishing trip or a football game for anything. They say they want to serve God,but they keep eliminating from their lives anything that might interfere with their own plans. ----------------------------------------------------- They are so (self-centered) that they do not recognize the (times) when God comes to them. ---------------------------------------------------- If you are (God-centered),you will adjust your circumstances to what God wants to do. (God has a right to interrupt your life). When you surrendered to Him as Lord,you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants. Suppose that five times out of ten when the Master had something for the servant to do the servant said. (I am sorry). That is not on my schedule.What do you suppose the Master would do? The Master would discipline the servant. If the servant did not respond to the discipline,sooner or later that servant would find that the Master no longer came to him with assignments. You may be saying,OH,I wish I could experience God working through me the way that John(or Sue) does.But every time God comes to John,John adjusts his life to God and is obedient. When John has been faithful in little assignments,God has given him more important assignments. If you are not willing to be faithful in a little,God cannot and will not give you a larger assignment. The smaller assignments of God are always used of God to develop character. God always develop character to match His assignment. If God has a great assignment for you,He has to develop a great character to match that assignment before He can give the assignment. When God gives direction,you accept it and understand it clearly,then give God all the (Time) He needs to make you the kind of person that He can trust with that assignment. Do not assume that the moment He calls,you are ready for the assignment. Consider the example of these two Bible Characters: •David. ----------- How long was it after God(through Samuel)anointed David King that David mounted the throne? Maybe ten or twelve years. What was God doing in the meantime?He was building Davids relationship with Himself. As goes the king,so goes the nation. (You cannot bypass character). •Paul ----------- How long was it after the living Lord called the Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road that Paul went on his first missionary journey? Maybe ten or eleven years. The focus is not on Paul;The focus is on God. God wanted to redeem a lost world,and He wanted to begin to redeem the Gentiles through Paul. God needed that much(Time) to prepare Paul for the assignment. Is it for your sake that God takes(Time) to prepare you? (No),not for you alone,but also for the sake of those He wants to reach through you. For their sake,give yourself to the kind of relationship to God we are discussing. Then,when He puts you in an assignment,He will achieve everything He wants in the lives of those you touch.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:09:08 +0000
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