BECOMING A BIGGER PERSON
We all need the milk of the gospel really. But the thrill of being saved is in its growth potential! Being a baby is carefree, but it is devoid of the glorious possibilities of work, of influence and of great adventure.
Are you serious about a close walk with God? Are you willing to beat your body and make it your slave? Are you someone who welcomes the Sword of the Spirit, not just the Oil of the Spirit? Then this word is for you. "What do you see, Jeremiah?": this is the time for seeing more of God and more from God. Seeing is what makes us people of enlarged faith and greater impact. To the measure we do not see by the Spirit, we see by the flesh.
I heard a great preacher saying this recently, "we live in a time of an awakening world but a sleeping church". He likened churches in the UK to the military regiments of the allied forces in the early stages of World War II - "strategically competent but dynamically ineffective".
The points that follow could each make you a bigger person in God, if you mix them with faith. They could make you a wakeful saint, a person who is both strategically competent and dynamically effective! Click on each to see the detail.
1. Risk disagreement by speaking
2. Think of the future as an adventure not an alarm
3. Move from church- to kingdom-mindedness
5. Stop seeing people relative to yourself, but relative to God
6. Get rid of wrong views of authority
9. Don't make room for self-sins
10. Celebrate bigger people and bigger gifts
11. Stop being cautious in your language
12. Ask God what has robbed you of your zeal and demand your zeal back
13. Be violent against temptation
14. Overcome the 'yuck factor'
15. Don't be yoked to little people
16. Read more depth, take in less slush
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