Is His Will Mine?
The other day, while I was doing some organizing, I came across an envelope that had notes on the back. It was from the spring and was from a message, broadcast, or phone call with our pastor, Chief Apostle Gunn. No matter the format, the questions and points I wrote down on it were necessary for repentance and sobriety. We often casually say God has perfect timing, but I must admit that sometimes I have failed in my faith that He does.
But this week, that envelope felt like God was asking me some eye-opening questions, and He knew I needed to find it to remind me of my covenant with Him and that He truly is an on-time God. Sometimes, we can focus more on our covenants with others than God, such as spouses, family, friends, school, and workplaces, and let those relationships cause us to miss the mark. Lately, I have had to push beyond my feelings, ideas, opinions, fears, questions, and imagination to answer God's call in a few areas in my life.
Chief Apostle Gunn told me the other day that God was calling for the examination of my commitment and willingness to stay in continuous progression. He said God was talking to both of us about these things as we were discussing my situations, but He was also bringing this call to the Body of Christ.
Below is what the envelope said in summary. The questions will wake up the sleeper in us.
Can God count on you to pursue Him no matter what?
Can you say, "I will bless the Lord at all times and with all that is within me"?
Are you willing to deliver yourself to God?
Are you willing to let God "lead you not into temptation"?
Do you have the wrong goal?
Is your goal to love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength?
How is your timeliness? How is your self-control? How is your impulsiveness? How is your prayer life?
Ephesians 5:14-21
Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God."
Listen to this week's FORREAL RADIO BROADCAST with Chief Apostle Gunn, titled "Psalm 32," here: https://www.thebodyofchristinc.com/listen-in?wix-music-track-id=4055052362421764&wix-music-comp-id=comp-mjyf0o28
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