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What is The Will of God for My Life?October 6th, 2013
God Wants Us to Serve Him
Last week we looked at the fact that God wants us to Love Him.
Love ALWAYS comes first. Service fromany other place other than
love has self-serving motives. Our love for God will produce a
desire to Serv
God. Lets look at some verses that speak of this service to God
and see what we can glean.
Romans 12:11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual
fervor, serving the Lord.
Serving should never be done way. Keeping our spiritual fervor
is loving the Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength.
Considering
this, our service to Him should be with all our heart, mind,
soul, and strength.
Deuteronomy 13:4 It is the LORD your God you must follow, and
him you must revere. Keep his
commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
I think it is interesting that many times in scripture we see
obedience to the Lord is synonymous withserving the Lord. We do not
keep His commandments to reach some sort of salvation experience,
orgain kudos with God.. We keep his commandments out of reverence
for Him, love for Him, and knowing
that keeping them is for our own good (Deut.10:13)not Gods.
Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do
not use your freedom to indulge the sinful
nature; rather, serve one another in love.
We are free. In this verse, we see the antithesis of indulging
in sinful acts to be serving one another inlove. Why?
When we serve one another, the needs of others take precedence
over our own. We focus on others andnot our self. The sinful nature
is one that is engulfed in its own lusts. When we feed our own
lusts and
desires, it is impossible to serve others for the needs of
others are of no consequence.
In sincere service to one another, we show the world our
devotion to Christ and tame the flesh.1 Peter 4:10 Each one should
use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully
administering
God's grace in its various forms.
Look at the verbs in this verse: 1) use, 2) received, 3) serve,
4) administer. God does not give us gifts to be idle. He gives us
gifts to use. These gifts are not drummed up by our
own abilities, they are given to us by God therefore, we have no
room to boast.
The giver of the gift is God; we are to use these gifts not for
personal gain but to serve others. When we do uses these gifts
given by God to serve one another, we are in essence and in every
sense of
the word, administering Gods grace to the world.
Another way of putting is that God graciously gives gifts to man
to further pour out His grace on men.
God didnt have to do it that way, but He uses men as a vehicle
to pour out His grace on men. When weuse our gift of mercy; we are
pouring out the grace of God.. When we exercise our give of
prophecy, we
are pouring out the grace of God. When we use the gift of
administration; of teaching; of helps, we are
pouring out the grace of God in its various forms.
SO Serving is a vehicle that God uses to pour out is grace to
mankind. God wants us to serve.
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1 Samuel 12:24 But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him
faithfully with all your heart; consider
what great things he has done for you.
This verse tells us that our service should not be sporadic but
consistent. Gods love for us is notsporadic; it is consistent. A
daily inventory of Gods grace, mercy, and provision in our life
will be
more than enough to prompt a faithful service to Him. Not
because we MUST but because it is our
desire to serve Him out of gratitude.
Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate
the one and love the other, or he will
be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve
both God and Money. I would have to say that one could put just
about anything in that blank and it would have the same
result. You cannot serve both God and ______________. I heard it
once said that identify where ones
time, effort, and resources are and there you will find their
heart.
John 12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my
servant also will be. My Father
will honor the one who serves me.
Look at this verse.. This verse is pointing out that when we
serve Christ, we follow Christ. It alsogoes to reason that anyone
who claims to serve Christ will be where Christ is.
Our feet take us many places. Is Christ where our feet are
taking us or are we following a differentmaster? One way of knowing
whether or not we are serving God and thereby obeying the will of
Go
for our life is an examination of where our feet take us and do
we find Christ in those places?
God will honor those whose feet are following Christ. God honors
us in many ways:
The health of us and our family,The peace that we have in our
life,Fruit of ministry,Favor with God and man,
I tell this one story of how my wife laid hands on our washer
and dryer when it was messing up
and it not only lasted until we could get a new one, but we gave
it away to a newlywed couple and
they used it for years, then they gave it away to an elderly
lady who used it and may still be! God
honored us in making the things we have last..
In summary, God wants us to Love Him and out of this love, we
serve Him. Not with part of our life but
with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. In service to God
we serve people pouring out His grace as
we serve. In serving God, we find ourselves following Christ and
as we are found with Him and in HIM,
God will honor us.
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