01/03/25 NOT SELF SERVING

01/03/25 NOT SELF SERVING

Through the years I have wanted to see my congregations grow in numbers, as well as in spirit, godliness, knowledge, grace, love, faith, vision, ministries. But my desire was not for my own advantage, or even the numerical or monetary well being of my congregation

I want people to come to my ministry because I want them to have at least what I have found and experience what I have. I want people to become all that God wants them to become. I want them to be immersed in the power, purity and purpose of God, through the work of the Holy Spirit.

I preach holiness of heart and life.
I preach victory over sin and temptation.
I preach that agape love is the fulfilling of the law.
I preach that God makes it possible for believers to experience perfect love.
I preach that it is possible to have the mind of Christ and to walk in Christ's footsteps.
I preach that we can be pure in heart.
I preach that God calls and equips His children to do that which is pleasing in His sight.
I preach that we can be conformed to the image of Jesus.
I preach that God gives us everything we need for life and godliness.
I preach that "greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world."
I preach that Christ saves believers "to the uttermost."
I preach that we are personally responsible to God for our actions, but God has provided forgiveness, newness of life, cleansing, spiritual knowledge, power, reconciliation, guidance to whosoever will trust and follow Him.
I preach that there is Divine intervention, transformation, deliverance, in this present life and in the world to come.
I preach that God heals broken lives, relationships and hearts.
I preach that God's calling comes with God's enabling.
I preach that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.

And this is just the surface of the great truths found in the salvation that God makes available.

You can find these great truths in God's word.
Find them, hide them in you heart, live them out in your daily life.

I realize these may seem like commonplace concepts. However, there are very few people who live according to these principles and the number of preachers who proclaim these truths are very small.

Acts 20:28-32
28 'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
29 for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
31 'Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;
32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

Hearing, believing and following these Biblical truths will change individuals, families, churches, communities, societies, nations. But very few hear, therefore very few will give their utmost for His highest and therefore very few will live life on the highest plane, few.

Make this the year that you walk in His light, His love, His life, His truth, His way, His power, His Spirit every day.