Good Morning Passionate and Zealous Servants! Amen! God gives us passions for things we are created and gifted to do and that leads to our wanting to do them--our zealous responses. PTL for these! It's all part of the easy yoke of Jesus. It's all about NOT striving n our own strength or leaning on our own understanding. It is all about seek, honoring, focusing on God and His good plans for each of us and us as His Body.
We are custom made for Hos custom purposes and the Holy Spirit has gifted us to be able to do those good things for His glory. What are you good at? What are you passionate about? What things might the Spirit be stirring you to passionately pursue? Those are the things we need to determine and commit to. Usually there will be some teammates to pray with, plan with, go with who have similar passions. Our God is a passionate God and He affirms us and our choices when they are done according to how we are created, the things He has planned for us and things we really want to do to honor and glorify God. That is part of loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength as commanded and most likely includes loving other as Jesus has loved us (sacrificially want to love--agape love).
We are bearers of Good News--the BEST news! We get to be ourselves and do things that click with us because we were made, gifted and prepared to do them. Yes an easy yoke we get to put on as we travel with Jesus to His best for us and those He is drawing and redeeming. What joy and peace this brings too! PTL! God has made, saved and gifted us and activated us for such a time as this! PTL! And we get to passionately and zealously pursue Him and blessing others! PTL! So, go! be you as you bring the Good News to someone and receive His peace and joy. Amen! Who did He bring to mind right now? Pursue what He has for you and them. If no one comes to mind, talk to God and your teammates about that and keep praying and preparing! Then step out in faith to pursue your Christ-given passions zealously! I'm praying for you! Shalom shalom!
I to We
ODB:
Of First Importance
What I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ . . . was raised on the third day. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Thomas de Mahy was one of many aristocrats executed by rioting mobs during the French Revolution of the late eighteenth century. According to one legendary account, upon reading his death warrant, de Mahy responded, “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.” If true, de Mahy pointedly disregarded a drastically more significant matter—his imminent death.
we’re in danger of unintentionally missing a crucial point, one that concerns the body of Christ (the church). There are those who would distort its purpose. Maybe we see the church as a political action committee or as a place to be served. Perhaps we see it as a mere religious institution. The church’s priority, however, has always been the good news of Jesus.
Paul told the believers at Corinth, “What I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). While other things may have an appropriate time and place, the gospel is of first importance.
How can we be agents of God’s good news to a world so saturated with bad news? By asking God to empower us to share this good news whenever possible.
By Bill Crowder
REFLECT & PRAY
How was the gospel shared with you? What could you do to be prepared to share that good news with others when the opportunity arises?
Gracious God, thank You for bringing me to You through the gospel of Jesus. Please help me share that good news with others.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
After Paul’s dramatic conversion, he joined other eyewitnesses of the resurrected Christ but as “one abnormally born” (1 Corinthians 15:8). Jesus’ physical resurrection was important to early believers in Christ and to us because our own bodily resurrection depends on the “firstfruits” of His resurrection (v. 20). But eyewitnesses also provided an invitation to others to believe in Christ and receive eternal life that begins now. As the apostle John put it, “We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3). The gospel of Jesus is the most important thing. God will empower us and help us to share this good news with others.
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