Challenging Quotes For Joining Christ On His Mission (Part 2)

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These quotes are from the God motivated Evangelist George Muller. May they serves to encourage, challenge and maybe even provoke you to living a life fully devoted to our Lord Jesus Christ. George Muller was such a man!

“George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in BristolEngland. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren.

He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime,[1][2] and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that he was even accused by some of raising the poor above their natural station in British life. He established 117 schools which offered Christian education to more than 120,000.” Wikipedia

  1. A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.”

  2. “Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”

  3. “There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.”

  4. “Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls”

  5. “Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.”

  6. “The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory.”

  7. “Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.”

  8. “God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.”

  9. “I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him”

  10. “God judges what we give by what we keep.”

  11. “If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.”

  12. “Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.”

  13. “I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.”

  14. “When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.”

  15. “When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own”

As we start this new year may we find the strength, encouragement and determination that we find in our brothers in Christ go before us as our guide on living a life fully devoted to our King, Jesus Christ!

Praying For God To Send More Harvest Laborers Into The Fields

In Luke 10:2 Jesus tells us that the spiritual harvest fields are ready to be harvested but there's one big problem to accomplishing that task!  That problem is that there's just not enough workers to go out and harvest the fields.  But then Jesus gives us the solution to our problem 

Watch this video of how some Followers of Christ in Tucson, Arizona are implementing Christ's solution.  

Are you ready to go start a monthly LUKE 10:2 PRAYER MEETING in your community?  Can you pray for God to raise up, train up and unleash more laborers into the harvest fields?

If so then leave a comment saying, 

"I Will"

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3 Important Facts About Knowing God's Will

As the Apostle Paul was writing his letter to the church at Colosse he tells the Christians there about a prayer that he offers up to God on their behalf.  This prayer contains some important information about knowing God's Will.  Read what it says,

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through spiritual wisdom and understanding ..."  Colossians 1:9 (NIV)

In this one verse we can learn 3 important facts about knowing God's will.  They are:

#1:  Knowing God's Will Is Of Utmost Importance.

Did you notice as you read the verse about that Paul said this this prayer is a prayer that he is praying for them daily?  For the Apostle Paul making sure that new believers in Christ were fully grounded in Christ was essential and if he was to accomplish that goal it was of the utmost importance that the new believers knew the will of God! 

Paul knew that being fully matured in Christ would require new believer to know what God's will is.  It would be impossible for them to be strong in their faith and not know God's will.  That's why he prayed daily for those coming to faith.  That's why his prayers contained petitions that those new believers would know and understand God's will. 

How Important And Essential Is Knowing God's Will To You?

How often do you pray for the new believers that you know about? That they would know God's will?

#2:  Knowing God's Will Is An Act Of God.

Did you notice in that verse that Paul was asking God to fill them with the knowledge of His will?  Who's doing the filling?  God is!  Who's the container being filled?  We are!  

Why is this important?  Simply because, you don't discover God's will - no instead it is God who reveals His will to us.  If we are going to understand what God's will is - it is because God has opened our eyes to see the truth of His will.  If God doesn't enlighten us we could never understand His will.  

#3:  Knowing God's Will Requires Spiritual Wisdom & Understanding.

Finally Paul states in his prayer that he is asking God to fill us with his will through spiritual wisdom and understanding.  Not human wisdom and understanding but spiritual wisdom and understanding.  The wisdom of this world does not and cannot comprehend the will of God.  To the world the will of God sounds like foolishness.  Understanding God's will requires us to have spiritual wisdom and understanding that come from God. 

The word for "wisdom" means the ability to understand what God is doing and the word for "understanding" means the ability to apply what they understand.  You see not only does God want us to understand His will is but He also wants us to know how to apply His will to our everyday life.  God doesn't just tell you what His will is to keep you informed - God shares his will with you because he wants you to join Him in what He is doing. 

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4 Things To Concentrate On As You Wait For Christ's Return

Many of God's people are sensing that Christ's return might be coming more sooner than later! But the question that begs to be answered is: What should God's people concentrate on as they are waiting for Christ's return?  

From God's word we can see 4 things we are told should be our aim and priority as we wait. Whether Christ's return is sooner or later these four things should always be what we focus on.

"The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen"  1 Peter 4:7-11 (NIV)

#1:  Remain Steadfast In Prayer

There are two important factors that are vital to help us maintain a steadfastness in praying.  They are being "Alert" and "Sober Minded".  Being alert means that we are to be aware of what is happening around us both in the physical word and in the spiritual world.  How can we pray as we should if we are not noticing what is happening around us.

The second is like the first but also slightly different and that is to be sober minded.  We need to keep ourselves from becoming intoxicated by the pleasures and the trappings of this world.  Intoxication of this world is probably the biggest hinderance to a powerful and God honoring prayer life.

#2:  Express Sincere Love For One Another

Peter says two important things when it comes to the love that we need to have for one another. First, he tells us that we need to love each other deeply.  Our love for our brothers and sisters in Christ can't be a surface kind of love that is more "talk" than it is a "walk'.  Talk cheap love doesn't do anything for anybody accept offer flattery.  We need to show deep love for one another because as the day approaches for Christ's return we might actually need to lay down our lives for one another out of love.  If you don't have a deep love for each other you won't be willing to die for that person.

Next Peter tells us that love covers a multitude of sins.  That means if we really love someone and I mean really love them we will over look their faults and even their sins agains us.  We will forgive each other even in the midst of them persecuting us.

#3:  Demonstrate Hospitality With The Right Attitude

Hospitality without grumbling.  Attitude is everything.  If you  do all the right things but do them all with the wrong attitude - it's still wrong and amounts to nothing.  Doing something nice for someone but not really wanting to still displeases God.  God wants us to desire with all our hearts to express love through good deeds.

#4:  Use Your Spiritual Gifts To Strengthen Each Other

God has given you spiritual gifts not for your benefit but for the benefit of His body - the church and for it to be done in such a way that Christ gets the praise!  God ministers to His people, through His people, by using their spiritual gifts.  You need to use your spiritual gifts, use them liberally and use them to strengthen your church fellowship.

1 Powerful Way To Join God On A Missional Living Movement

Do you want to be part of a powerful movement of God that allows the Light of Christ to shine brightly in this dark world?  Then check out this video and learn about one thing that Jesus commanded His disciples to do that would create a powerful movement of God!

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3 Daily Activities For Powerful Missional Living

Here are three things you can do every single day to help you join God on His mission and live a powerful missional life.  

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How Can Prayer Walking Lead People To Faith In Christ?

Members from Enchanted Hills Baptist Church after going out on a Door To Door Prayer Walk!

Members from Enchanted Hills Baptist Church after going out on a Door To Door Prayer Walk!

The people above received the T4T Reproducing Disciple Making Basic Training and then went out to do a Door To Door Prayer Walk to find where God was at work.  Watch to the video below to hear the results of their time joining God on His mission.  You just might be encouraged and empowered to do the same!

The Chocolate Chip Cookie/Prayer Outreach Strategy

Jesus said on the Sermon On The Mount,

"Let your light so shine before men in such a way that they see your good deeds and glorify our Father in Heaven."  Matthew 5:16
In other words we are to do good things for other people in a way that God gets the credit for it and that includes outreach.  The Chocolate Chip Cookie/Prayer Outreach Strategy is one powerful way to do something nice for people and do it in a way that God gets the glory and so a "Door of Opportunity" might open to share the Gospel.  
This is a simple strategy that anyone can do. It would be a great activity for an Ordinary Christian to do in their own neighborhood.  It can be used to reach out into other neighborhoods to see which homes God is at work in.  
The first video explains how it works and the other three video are short testimonies of people who taught to do it and went out that same day and did. They will share their experiences in doing it with you.  

So what do you think?  

  • Can you bake up some chocolate chip cookies, take them over to some neighbors house, share with them that God loves them and you care about them, ask if there's anything going on in their lives that you can pray for them about, and then pray for them?  
  • Can you do that?  SURE YOU CAN! SO GO SHINE THE LIGHT OF CHRIST AND LET GOD GET THE GLORY!